Sentences with phrase «fight promoter»
A "fight promoter" is someone who organizes and promotes physical contests or battles, like boxing matches or wrestling events. They work to generate excitement and attract an audience for the fights. Full definition
Washed - up boxer Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) scrapes by as a small - time robot - fight promoter as he tries to make a comeback.
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Bred by fight promoters for power and aggression, massive jaws and large teeth, these dogs give spectators the kind of blood sport they seek.
Charlie is a down - and - out former boxer turned sleazy fight promoter on the underground robot boxing circuit in a world where machines have replaced humans as prizefighting combatants.
Fight promoter Don King explained the significance to reporters a few days prior.
Leonard Asper, erstwhile media baron and budding fight promoter, gave this interview to the Winnipeg Free Press last week about the downfall of Canwest, the television and newspaper empire his father built and he lost after the financial crisis in 2008.
He was what fight promoter Bob Arum called «a great banger,» a fighter whose first objective is to land his best shot, and if he happens to get nailed in the meantime, then fine.
John Gatins writes the trite screenplay as if he were a robot writing for robots, but does a nice job in a supporting role as a spunky spike - haired fight promoter.
The bull prevails and Charlie is left owing big money to one more fight promoter he can't afford to pay.
Michael persuades Katherine to take him on as her manager, but while victory is sweet for a while, it doesn't take long for his old enemies to catch up with him, and soon Michael and Katherine have to deal with Clark (Kurt Hanover), an underground fight promoter who has a score to settle with Michael.
Now commences a series of events it would be useless to describe, and which are eventually almost impossible to understand, involving a troubled lawyer (Emily Mortimer), a movie star (Tim Allen), the star's shifty manager (Joe Mantegna) and the world of a pay - for - TV fight promoter (Ricky Jay).
Crooked fight promoter Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) tries to outrace the night.
Retired pugilist Charlie (Hugh Jackman) becomes a two - bit fight promoter after human boxers are replaced by robotic combatants and the sport is changed forever.
He's endlessly devoted to his daughter, Leila (a promising Oona Laurence) and wife, Maureen (Rachel McAdams, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows), who's worried about Billy's long - term health and leery of the hanger - ons including fight promoter Jordan Mains (50 Cent, Escape Plan).
The story follows the career of Andre Bishop, a talented boxer, who is forced to overcome great setbacks including a prison sentence and a corrupt fight promoter.
Many a fight promoter has labeled and sold «ringside» tickets that required field glasses for a proper view.
Afterwards, the fight promoter will only give them half the prize money because of «Maxo's» poor performance; Kelly dares not protest, or the promoter will recognize him as «Maxo» and renege entirely.
Kelly has to assure the fight promoter that Maxo will be able to fight.
After the fight promoter leaves, Kelly and his partner / mechanic, Pole, argue about Maxo's condition and that he needs new parts.
Carnage is what crowds want when they come to the sports arena, according to one fight promoter (Anthony Mackie).
Gina Carano will portray a fight promoter in director John Stockwell's Kickboxer remake, currently shooting in New Orleans.
Willem Dafoe, as Petty, the local bar owner and fight promoter, is hustling and squirrely and still, somehow, sympathetic.
But there's no room for peace, or promise, here: Cooper opens his riveting Rust Belt noir at a drive - in movie theater (another relic), where a wildman meth dealer and fight promoter, Harlan DeGroat (Woody Harrelson), is on a date.
Superman's old archenemy, Lex Luthor (Jesse Eisenberg), plays the role of a fight promoter in a gladiator - style clash of might he is hoping will ultimately be to his benefit.
Real Steel (PG - 13 for violence, intense action and brief profanity) Futuristic sci - fi about a washed - up boxer - turned - fight promoter (Hugh Jackman) who, with the help of the young son he never knew (Dakota Goyo), trains a robot for a rock «em - sock «em championship bout.
But his father (Ciaran Hinds) is literally in his corner, urging him on and arguing with his fight promoters.
Mackie will play a fight promoter while Lilly will play a friend of Jackman's character.
Hugh Jackman stars as Charlie Keaton, a former boxer who must now scrape by as a fight promoter for the very things that ended his career.