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There is a new undisputed and undefeated heavyweight champion of the world.
Ukraine’s Oleksandr Usyk joined Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis, Joe Frazier, Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali and Floyd Patterson as the only undisputed champions by winning a split decision over Tyson Fury. The fight took place at Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The previously undefeated Fury was convinced he won the fight. But the scorecards favored Usyk.
“I believe I won that fight,” Fury said to Dazn.“I believe he won a few of the rounds, but I won the majority of them. … We all put on a good fight, best we could do. And, you know, his country is at war, so people are siding with someone with a country at war. But make no mistake, I won that fight in my opinion, and I’ll be back.”
Fury and Usyk reportedly have a rematch clause in their contract.
Ukraine’s Oleksandr Usyk joined Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis, Joe Frazier, Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali and Floyd Patterson as the only undisputed champions by winning a split decision over Tyson Fury. The fight took place at Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The previously undefeated Fury was convinced he won the fight. But the scorecards favored Usyk.
“I believe I won that fight,” Fury said to Dazn.“I believe he won a few of the rounds, but I won the majority of them. … We all put on a good fight, best we could do. And, you know, his country is at war, so people are siding with someone with a country at war. But make no mistake, I won that fight in my opinion, and I’ll be back.”
Fury and Usyk reportedly have a rematch clause in their contract.
- 5/19/2024
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
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A Ken Burns documentary on legendary fighter Muhammad Ali sounds like the perfect union between filmmaker and subject — it also sounds like a topic Burns would have tackled long ago. Ali’s is a name that hasn’t diminished, let alone in the five years since his death from Parkinson’s, and the iconic sports star is still considered one of the greatest fighters of all time. Burns’ documentary shows exactly why that is, but the nearly eight-hour series also manages to break down Ali as a man, his connections with religion, and the lives of the numerous contenders he sought to conquer.
Like most of Burns’ documentaries, “Muhammad Ali” is a fairly comprehensive life-to-death examination of its title character, and all the basic tenets you’d expect are there. What’s fascinating, and makes the documentary so watchable, is the various throughlines Burns posits, starting with Ali’s fighting skills.
Like most of Burns’ documentaries, “Muhammad Ali” is a fairly comprehensive life-to-death examination of its title character, and all the basic tenets you’d expect are there. What’s fascinating, and makes the documentary so watchable, is the various throughlines Burns posits, starting with Ali’s fighting skills.
- 9/19/2021
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
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Production scheduled to commence in spring / summer.
Xyz Films has reported robust territory sales at Efm on Nick Cassavetes’ upcoming boxing drama Cus And Mike starring Anthony Hopkins as Mike Tyson’s legendary trainer Cus D’Amato.
Patriot Pictures head Michael Mendelsohn is producing the true story about how D’Amato turned Tyson from an adolescent street thug into the world’s youngest heavyweight boxing champion and one of the most feared pugilists the sport has ever seen.
Xyz Films has struck deals in Italy (Eagle Pictures), Spain (A Contracorriente), Middle East (Falcon), Poland (Kino Swiat), Eastern Europe (Prorom), Portugal (Nos...
Xyz Films has reported robust territory sales at Efm on Nick Cassavetes’ upcoming boxing drama Cus And Mike starring Anthony Hopkins as Mike Tyson’s legendary trainer Cus D’Amato.
Patriot Pictures head Michael Mendelsohn is producing the true story about how D’Amato turned Tyson from an adolescent street thug into the world’s youngest heavyweight boxing champion and one of the most feared pugilists the sport has ever seen.
Xyz Films has struck deals in Italy (Eagle Pictures), Spain (A Contracorriente), Middle East (Falcon), Poland (Kino Swiat), Eastern Europe (Prorom), Portugal (Nos...
- 3/5/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Joseph Baxter Feb 20, 2020
Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins headlines biopic Cus and Mike, set to play Mike Tyson’s legendary trainer, Cus D’Amato.
Anthony Hopkins is set to bring his Oscar-and-Emmy-winning repertory skill set to the boxing ring… well, a ring-adjacent location, anyway, set to play trainer Cus D’Amato, in a developing fact-based film project about how the legendary prepper of pugilists molded one fighter in particular, Mike Tyson.
The launch of Berlin's European Film Market (Efm) has yielded a most intriguing project from Patriot Pictures, a biopic titled Cus and Mike, which, as revealed by Deadline, will have Hopkins headline as the titular trainer. The film is set with The Notebook director Nick Cassavetes, who will work off an original screenplay by Desmond Nakano, based on Montieth Illingworth’s 1991 biography, Mike Tyson: Money, Myth, and Betrayal.
Knighted Welsh legend Hopkins’s role as D’Amato – who wrought two-time heavyweight...
Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins headlines biopic Cus and Mike, set to play Mike Tyson’s legendary trainer, Cus D’Amato.
Anthony Hopkins is set to bring his Oscar-and-Emmy-winning repertory skill set to the boxing ring… well, a ring-adjacent location, anyway, set to play trainer Cus D’Amato, in a developing fact-based film project about how the legendary prepper of pugilists molded one fighter in particular, Mike Tyson.
The launch of Berlin's European Film Market (Efm) has yielded a most intriguing project from Patriot Pictures, a biopic titled Cus and Mike, which, as revealed by Deadline, will have Hopkins headline as the titular trainer. The film is set with The Notebook director Nick Cassavetes, who will work off an original screenplay by Desmond Nakano, based on Montieth Illingworth’s 1991 biography, Mike Tyson: Money, Myth, and Betrayal.
Knighted Welsh legend Hopkins’s role as D’Amato – who wrought two-time heavyweight...
- 2/20/2020
- Den of Geek
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Exclusive: In an intriguing Berlin Efm addition, Oscar-winner Anthony Hopkins has been set to star in Cus And Mike, the story of Mike Tyson’s legendary trainer Cus D’Amato and how he moulded the fighter into becoming the youngest heavyweight title winner ever and one of the most ferocious boxers of his generation.
The Patriot Pictures film, which is set to be a character study as well as a sports-biopic, will be directed and written by The Notebook and John Q filmmaker Nick Cassavetes, based on the original screenplay by Desmond Nakano, and the book Mike Tyson: Money, Myth, and Betrayal by Montieth Illingworth.
Xyz Films and Patriot are handling world sales at the Efm in Berlin and are aiming to shoot in spring/summer 2020.
The film will chart how the tough but brilliant D’Amato became a father-figure to the wayward adolescent Tyson who would go on to become...
The Patriot Pictures film, which is set to be a character study as well as a sports-biopic, will be directed and written by The Notebook and John Q filmmaker Nick Cassavetes, based on the original screenplay by Desmond Nakano, and the book Mike Tyson: Money, Myth, and Betrayal by Montieth Illingworth.
Xyz Films and Patriot are handling world sales at the Efm in Berlin and are aiming to shoot in spring/summer 2020.
The film will chart how the tough but brilliant D’Amato became a father-figure to the wayward adolescent Tyson who would go on to become...
- 2/20/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: UK production company Mad As Birds – which has credits including the Jackie Weaver and Diane Keaton comedy Poms and Gerard Butler mystery-thriller The Vanishing – has secured rights to Shaun Assael’s non-fiction book The Murder Of Sonny Liston: Las Vegas, Heroin, And Heavyweights, about the investigation into the mysterious death of the champion boxer.
Sonny Liston knocked out Floyd Patterson in 1962 to become heavyweight world champion. He successfully defended his title before losing a shock bout to underdog Muhammad Ali in 1964. A rematch with Ali in 1965, which saw Liston suffer a first-round knockout, was plagued by allegations of match-fixing. The Ring magazine still ranks Liston as the tenth greatest heavyweight of all time
Liston was found dead in his home on January 5, 1971, from an apparent heroin overdose. The book delves into the last year of his life, looking at how Liston’s passing hovered over Las Vegas and the sporting world,...
Sonny Liston knocked out Floyd Patterson in 1962 to become heavyweight world champion. He successfully defended his title before losing a shock bout to underdog Muhammad Ali in 1964. A rematch with Ali in 1965, which saw Liston suffer a first-round knockout, was plagued by allegations of match-fixing. The Ring magazine still ranks Liston as the tenth greatest heavyweight of all time
Liston was found dead in his home on January 5, 1971, from an apparent heroin overdose. The book delves into the last year of his life, looking at how Liston’s passing hovered over Las Vegas and the sporting world,...
- 9/25/2019
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
This robust documentary follows the fortunes of three fighters as they compete for the prestigious New York Golden Gloves
Here is a forthright, uncomplicated and robustly made documentary about the New York Golden Gloves, the most prestigious amateur boxing contest in the United States, which has been sponsored by the New York Daily News since its creation in the 1920s. It has been the nursery of more great boxers than the Olympics, including Floyd Patterson and Sugar Ray Leonard.
The film follows the fortunes of three young fighters: Titus Williams, James Wilkins and Nisa Rodriguez and reflects on the time-honoured subject of how boxing offers an aspirational culture and gets young people out of harm’s way. And at the amateur level, then there is some level of innocence – although the film doesn’t touch explicitly on how big money, or the prospect of big money, could change that. Director...
Here is a forthright, uncomplicated and robustly made documentary about the New York Golden Gloves, the most prestigious amateur boxing contest in the United States, which has been sponsored by the New York Daily News since its creation in the 1920s. It has been the nursery of more great boxers than the Olympics, including Floyd Patterson and Sugar Ray Leonard.
The film follows the fortunes of three young fighters: Titus Williams, James Wilkins and Nisa Rodriguez and reflects on the time-honoured subject of how boxing offers an aspirational culture and gets young people out of harm’s way. And at the amateur level, then there is some level of innocence – although the film doesn’t touch explicitly on how big money, or the prospect of big money, could change that. Director...
- 3/21/2019
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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Bruce Willis has been set to play legendary boxing trainer Cus D’Amato in Cornerman, the biopic written and directed by Rupert Friend. Friend and Aimée Mullins are producing for Circus Florist Films with Marc Butan and Ara Keshishian producing for MadRiver Pictures. A fall start is eyed. CAA is handling U.S. rights and Imr International will begin foreign sales in Cannes this week.
The Bronx-born D’Amato trained such storied fighters as Floyd Patterson, José Torres and Mike Tyson and was known for developing the Peek-a-Boo style. He boxed as a featherweight and lightweight amateur in his younger days but never got a professional license. Throughout his career, he also had dust-ups with the boxing establishment. When D’Amato died in 1985, Patterson said, “There will never be another manager or person who cares about his fighters the way Cus did.”
Cornerman is set in the 1980s Catskills where...
The Bronx-born D’Amato trained such storied fighters as Floyd Patterson, José Torres and Mike Tyson and was known for developing the Peek-a-Boo style. He boxed as a featherweight and lightweight amateur in his younger days but never got a professional license. Throughout his career, he also had dust-ups with the boxing establishment. When D’Amato died in 1985, Patterson said, “There will never be another manager or person who cares about his fighters the way Cus did.”
Cornerman is set in the 1980s Catskills where...
- 5/7/2018
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
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Stars Mark Ali's 70Th Birthday In Las Vegas
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Samuel L. Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Sean 'Diddy' Combs and Slash were among the famous faces who turned out for a star-studded gala in Las Vegas on Saturday night to mark Muhammad Ali's 70th birthday.
The event, held at Sin City's MGM Grand, raised money for charity in honour of the legendary boxer's milestone birthday last month, and guests included Terrence Howard, David Beckham, Sir Anthony Hopkins and Lenny Kravitz.
A number of artists took to the stage to perform for Ali, including Snoop Dogg, John Legend, Cee Lo Green, Kravitz, Slash and Rowland, as well as Wonder, who flew in from New Jersey after performing at Whitney Houston's funeral earlier in the day.
The music legend saluted Ali by performing a number of his hits, including his track Happy Birthday.
There were also tributes from U.S. President Barack Obama, who said in a video message, "Happy birthday, champ," and Hollywood actor Jackson, who told the audience, "He's done it with guts and grace, with his fists, and with his wits. He's one of the groundbreaking figures of the generation that helped make the world a more open place when it comes to who we can love, where we can go and what we can do. Thank you, champ."
The event also included a memorabilia auction, and a pair of Ali's boxing gloves, which were used to defeat Floyd Patterson in a fight in Las Vegas in 1965, sold for $1.1 million (£687,500).
Proceeds from the gala will be donated to the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky and the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health.
The event, held at Sin City's MGM Grand, raised money for charity in honour of the legendary boxer's milestone birthday last month, and guests included Terrence Howard, David Beckham, Sir Anthony Hopkins and Lenny Kravitz.
A number of artists took to the stage to perform for Ali, including Snoop Dogg, John Legend, Cee Lo Green, Kravitz, Slash and Rowland, as well as Wonder, who flew in from New Jersey after performing at Whitney Houston's funeral earlier in the day.
The music legend saluted Ali by performing a number of his hits, including his track Happy Birthday.
There were also tributes from U.S. President Barack Obama, who said in a video message, "Happy birthday, champ," and Hollywood actor Jackson, who told the audience, "He's done it with guts and grace, with his fists, and with his wits. He's one of the groundbreaking figures of the generation that helped make the world a more open place when it comes to who we can love, where we can go and what we can do. Thank you, champ."
The event also included a memorabilia auction, and a pair of Ali's boxing gloves, which were used to defeat Floyd Patterson in a fight in Las Vegas in 1965, sold for $1.1 million (£687,500).
Proceeds from the gala will be donated to the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky and the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health.
- 2/19/2012
- WENN
Boxer McNeeley Dead At 74
Boxing great Tom McNeeley, who had small roles in films like The Brinks Job and Gone Baby Gone, has died at the age of 74.
The fighter quit college, where he played football with movie star James Caan, to become a professional in the ring.
A heavyweight contender in the 1960s, he was knocked down 11 times during a title fight with Floyd Patterson in 1961 - but he refused to stay on the canvas.
He retired from boxing in 1966 with a 37-14 record.
McNeeley suffered a stroke recently, and was on life support in a Massachusetts hospital when he died on Tuesday.
His son Peter fought Mike Tyson in 1995.
The fighter quit college, where he played football with movie star James Caan, to become a professional in the ring.
A heavyweight contender in the 1960s, he was knocked down 11 times during a title fight with Floyd Patterson in 1961 - but he refused to stay on the canvas.
He retired from boxing in 1966 with a 37-14 record.
McNeeley suffered a stroke recently, and was on life support in a Massachusetts hospital when he died on Tuesday.
His son Peter fought Mike Tyson in 1995.
- 10/27/2011
- WENN
Family Guy creator/rememberer of things Seth MacFarlane has closed a deal to reboot the Flintstones franchise through a series of “tv and film projects.” Predictably, this has been met with an internet wave of “Oh God No”, probably because Seth MacFarlane makes bad things and people remember the Flintstones fondly; my colleague Alex Zalben summed up this impending disaster in an all-too-accurate Tweet, “Hey Wilma, do you remember the time when Oh Wait Nothing Has Happened Before This.” While I share and probably exceed the internet’s general distaste for Seth MacFarlane’s animated humor, and still believe The Flintstones was an objectively great show and not just something we remember fondly out of blind nostalgia, I also believe that some perspective is in order for the panicky masses who are acting like this MacFarlane announcement will somehow ruin the pristine legacy of one of television’s all-time most beloved cartoons.
- 5/17/2011
- by Dan Hopper
- BestWeekEver
"Fight Night Champion" hit like a lights-dimming haymaker earlier this month, releasing on March 1 to rave reviews from fans and critics alike. The series typically outstanding visuals were praised, along with the abundance of content and the story-driven Champion Mode. After almost an entire month of roaming free in the world however, players are likely starting to feel antsy for more. Good news, then. Electronic Arts has you covered with some new downloadable content that is coming to Xbox Live and PlayStation Network next week, detailed after the jump.
There are three packs in all, though some added promotions make everything a bit more complicated. The star of the show is the Heavyweight Legends Pack, which adds Jack Johnson, Jack Dempsey, Rocky Marciano, Joe Louis and Floyd Patterson to your roster of fighters. Buying this pack, which costs 800 Ms Points/$10 also gets you the Bare Knuckles Boxing pack for free,...
There are three packs in all, though some added promotions make everything a bit more complicated. The star of the show is the Heavyweight Legends Pack, which adds Jack Johnson, Jack Dempsey, Rocky Marciano, Joe Louis and Floyd Patterson to your roster of fighters. Buying this pack, which costs 800 Ms Points/$10 also gets you the Bare Knuckles Boxing pack for free,...
- 3/25/2011
- by Adam Rosenberg
- MTV Multiplayer
There have been many great boxing movies over the years, but most of them are about white champs – and there aren't many of those in the real world
The ratio of good films about boxers to bad films about boxers is extraordinarily high. That may be because there is something inherently thrilling about the manly art, but it may also be because Hollywood doesn't make a movie about boxers every week, whereas it does make a movie about young men who treat women badly 52 times a year. It may also be because the great movies about boxers become lodged in the public's memory, while the bad ones (The Main Event, a woeful 1979 outing starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal immediately comes to mind) simply vapourise. It may also be because so many movies about boxers have been directed by talented directors (Martin Scorsese, John Huston, Michael Mann, Martin Ritt, Jim Sheridan,...
The ratio of good films about boxers to bad films about boxers is extraordinarily high. That may be because there is something inherently thrilling about the manly art, but it may also be because Hollywood doesn't make a movie about boxers every week, whereas it does make a movie about young men who treat women badly 52 times a year. It may also be because the great movies about boxers become lodged in the public's memory, while the bad ones (The Main Event, a woeful 1979 outing starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal immediately comes to mind) simply vapourise. It may also be because so many movies about boxers have been directed by talented directors (Martin Scorsese, John Huston, Michael Mann, Martin Ritt, Jim Sheridan,...
- 1/28/2011
- by Joe Queenan
- The Guardian - Film News
Very few people have had a great movie made about them. Fewer still have been the subject of a great documentary, mostly because docs about famous people are usually of the A&E variety or produced by those people as promotion. However, one man, the self-proclaimed Greatest Ever, has been the subject of nearly a dozen good documentaries. Here are the three best docs on the man who spent a quarter-century as the most famous person in the world.
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A.K.A. Cassius Clay:
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Originally produced for a short-term run in New York in 1970, A.K.A. Cassius Clay is an oddity. The majority of the film takes place on a sound stage, where Ali and legendary boxing trainer Cus D’Amato sit wearing suits, watching fights and arguing, largely about Ali’s claims of being the greatest fighter ever.
Cus had trained champions Jose Torres and Floyd Patterson and would...
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A.K.A. Cassius Clay:
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Originally produced for a short-term run in New York in 1970, A.K.A. Cassius Clay is an oddity. The majority of the film takes place on a sound stage, where Ali and legendary boxing trainer Cus D’Amato sit wearing suits, watching fights and arguing, largely about Ali’s claims of being the greatest fighter ever.
Cus had trained champions Jose Torres and Floyd Patterson and would...
- 1/22/2011
- by Mike Waldman
- SoundOnSight
While on holiday last week I re-read the toast of the Signifying Monkey (here), an African-American reworking of African mythology depicting the survival strategies of the trickster (the titular monkey) attempting, in the face of oppression and discrimination to defuse the powers of exploitation and undermine (racial) misrepresentation. He does so not through violence or aggression but cunning and wit. It is a powerful poem with a strong resonance in the African-American political struggle. Signifying, in the non-folkloric sense, is the creation of new “language”, a “way of saying one thing but meaning another”, and is a trope that can be found in music, particularly in blues and jazz, in the improvisations of Coltrane, Monk and others, and in soul music, in testifying and calling out (see the music of James Brown especially.) Here, though, it reminded me of Muhammad Ali. Ali was the great urban trickster of sixties and seventies America and,...
- 12/18/2009
- by Nick Clarke
- t5m.com
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