Sentences with phrase «life as a boxer»

Not exact matches

We're not condemned to Terry Malloy's income - generating but dead - end job as a boxer ordered to take a dive, or to his life as a crony provided a sinecure on the docks.

Santa Fe councilman John Egan announced tersely, in a good imitation of a heavyweight boxer's manager: «As far as we're concerned, the trophy lives in Santa FAs far as we're concerned, the trophy lives in Santa Fas we're concerned, the trophy lives in Santa Fe.

Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao have the eyes of the sports world locked onto the boxing ring today, as the two superstar boxers finally meet this evening at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, live on pay - per - view.

The last fight between these two boxers lived up to its hype, going the distance as Golovkin poured on his signature offense and Canelo Alvarez managed to weather the storm with a strong chin and some effective countering.

As a boxer, Honeyghan looks to America for inspiration — he frequently trains in the U.S. before major fights, and his best friend is Buster Drayton, the IBF junior middleweight champion, who lives in Philadelphia.

STATEN ISLAND — A retired boxer and public affairs officer for the Army — who lives in Brooklyn and plans to run as a Democrat — plans to run to unseat Republican Dan Donovan of his congressional seat next year.

Based on a real - life story of a tobacco - company research scientist (Russell Crowe) and the ramifications of his decision to disclose industry secrets to the American public on an episode of 60 Minutes, it was a moody, intense affair that many critics touted as one of the year's best films; it netted 7 Oscar nominations in the process.Mann was back in the Academy Award hunt two year's later with Ali, a biopic of the beloved boxer Muhammad Ali that focused on both his athletic accomplishments and his political battles.

The film segues breezily between various episodes from Piaf's life — such as her lover, French boxer Marcel Cerdan's (Jean - Pierre Martins) championship bout in mid -»40s New York; her period in Hollywood during the»50s; Piaf's abandonment as a young girl by her contortionist father (and earlier by her mother, a street singer); her brushes with the law as an adult; and her 1951 car accident and subsequent morphine addiction that caused her to age well beyond her years and left her barely mobile; and, through it all, her ability (like Billie Holiday) to funnel personal tragedy and emotional struggles into her vocalizations — dazzling audiences in the process.

Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler) stars in this drama as a professional boxer on the road to championship glory, only to have his life fall to pieces when a moment of aggressive backlash results in him losing his family.

Language: English Genre: Drama / Biography MPAA rating: R Director: Martin Scorsese Actors: Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty Plot: A middle weight boxer, who is emotionally unstable, rises to the top over time, but takes a tumble as his life continues.

We see her immediate post-skating life, a brief time as a boxer.

And on the boxing, both Jackman and his director were thrilled that Sugar Ray Leonard, widely acknowledged as one of the greatest boxers who ever lived and a five times world champion, was an adviser on set for the fight scenes in Real Steel.

Their lives are suddenly altered when Armando Bruza, a husky, world famous heavy weight boxer from South America, played by hot up - and - coming Spanish actor Sergio Peris - Mencheta, is brought to the Ranch to train as part of Charlie's ever - expanding entrepreneurial empire.

Michael is a now - retired boxer (and incidentally shares his name with a real - life Irish Olympic medallist in the same sport) who is employed as a limousine driver around the streets of New York City.

Adonis» two main bouts are against fighters of color — the first, played by real - life boxer Gabriel Rosado, is edited as an extended take with exhilarating camerawork that sails around and between the pugilists.

Excellent performances bolster this ramshackle tale of a champion boxer trying to make good with his life following the loss of the one thing that always managed to keep him on track, his beloved wife, both orphans who met in foster care as they grew up on the wrong side of the tracks in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen.

The Happiest Day, however, suggests that the evening he unceremoniously lost in two rounds against American boxer Davey Moore was, in fact, a happy occasion for Mäki, as it signaled the end of two weeks of overwhelming media hype and pressure, thus allowing him to return to his quiet life in the small town of Kokkola, and especially to his new wife Raija (Oona Airola).

Apart from her hopeful affair with a boxer and the sustenance audiences gave her, her life, as seen here, was relentlessly grim.

Hollywood legend Errol Flynn shines as real - life boxer Jim Corbett: scrappy, arrogant, proud and capable.

In the span of his ten years as a boxer, he lived a troubled life filled with booze, drugs, women and a variety of highs and lows.

As for the portrayals, Teller (who, incidentally, looks nothing like a real boxer), Eckhart and Hinds are fine and mostly believable in their roles (especially the first two), but this author can not help but speculate that this real - life struggle and redemption story could have been told much better with some genuine emotion instead of the mediocre tale we see on the screen.

Nominated for best actress were Annette Bening as a 1930s London stage diva in Being Julia; Catalina Sandino Moreno as a Colombian woman who takes on a perilous job as a drug mule in Maria Full of Grace; Imelda Staunton as a housekeeper who moonlights as an abortion practitioner in 1950s Britain in Vera Drake; Hilary Swank as a boxer whose life turns tragic in Million Dollar Baby; and Kate Winslet as a woman who has erased memories of her ex-boyfriend in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Sylvester Stallone will also feature in the cast, reprising the role of the now - retired Italian Stallion, as well as real life boxers Andre Ward and Tony Bellew.

When Moshe's emigrates to Paris in the 1930s, it means a new life: A decent job, a lovely young wife, and a hobby as an amateur boxer.

I've seen a white Boxer deemed a pitbull because «Boxers don't come in white;» she was not allowed back as long as her owners lived in the town, so she was transferred to a shelter in a different town and adopted.

As part of our goal of preventing cruelty to animals, the mission of New Life Boxer Rescue is to provide a safe and loving environment in foster care while we seek a new and permanent home for these Boxers.

The dogs remain protective in nature, but most boxers also have a playful, mischievous side and can channel their almost boundless energy into life as a beloved family pet.

On August 6, volunteers at a Pennsylvania rescue will be holding their breath and hoping that they can rescue up to 10 boxers from being used as breeding machines for the rest of their lives.

Boxers come to us from shelters, as strays, and from owners who need to give up their dogs due to changing life circumstances.

She shares her life with four dogs — Alesia, a hound mix that was adopted from the LA - SPCA; Bella, a shepherd mix that was found as a stray; Tigger, a boxer / pit bull mix (also adopted); and Bucky, a pitbull mix who never stops being happy or playful.

They are very versatile, but you should be able to devote plenty of attention early on in a Boxers life if you want it to be well - behaved as an adult.

Other breeds, such as Boxers and King Charles Cavalier Spaniels also have shorter life expectancies due to specific breed related diseases.

I live in a 1940's stucco cottage with my family and a boxer named Max in northwest Montana where we're heading into the «dark season» with lots of wet snow in the winter as we're on the edge of the Pacific Northwest weather.