The Top 5 boxing movies of all time, as picked by three folks
who know what they’re talking about and a bunch more who don’t:
The Top 5 boxing movies of all time, as picked by three folks who know what they’re talking about and a bunch more who don’t:
Kelsey Jeffries
Multiple title-holder from Hollister by way of Gilroy
1. Rocky (1976)
2. Champion (1949)
3. Raging Bull (1980)
4. Somebody Up There
Likes Me (1956)
5. The Great White Hope (1970)
Robert Guerrero
NABF featherweight champion from Gilroy
1. Raging Bull (1980)
2. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
3. Rocky (1976)
4. Rocky II (1979)
5. Rocky III (1982)
Mario Serrano
Robert Guerrero’s publicist
1. Rocky (1976)
2. Rocky II (1979)
3. Raging Bull (1980)
4. Don King: Only in
America (1997, HBO)
5. Rocky III (1982)
Damon Poeter
Dispatch Sports Editor
1. Raging Bull (1980)
2. Rocky (1976)
3. When We Were Kings (1996, documentary)
4. Requiem for a
Heavyweight (1962)
5. On the Waterfront (1954, would be higher … but contains no actual boxing)
The Dispatch Staff
Breakroom film critics
1. Rocky (1980)
2. The Champ (1979)
3. Pulp Fiction (1994, another one with no actual boxing)
4. Gladiator (1992)
5. Rocky II (1979)
Also worth checking out: Fat City (1972), Spike of Bensonhurst (1988), The Boxer (1997), The Hurricane (1999), Girl Fight (2000), Undisputed (2002), Unforgiveable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004, documentary)
