Movies and TvShows featuring "championship-fight" theme.
In the segregated city of Miami, four influential African American figures: boxer Muhammad Ali, activist Malcolm X, singer Sam Cooke, and football player Jim Brown, meet in a hotel room. They engage in passionate discussions about their responsibility and impact on the Civil Rights Movement. Through a night of intense conversations, they reflect on their individual struggles, beliefs, and the state of the nation.
American Shaolin is about a young American named Drew who travels to China to study martial arts at a Shaolin temple. Along the way, he faces various challenges and obstacles, including a mentor-student relationship, interracial romance, and championship fights. Through hard work and determination, Drew overcomes these obstacles and becomes a skilled martial artist.
In this black-and-white, silent film, a boxer named The Little Tramp navigates the world of boxing, facing bribes, rigged outcomes, and even a threat from a gun-wielding gambler. With physical comedy and slapstick humor, The Champion follows the hilarious misadventures of The Little Tramp as he trains, fights, and forms an unlikely friendship with a dog.
Battling Butler is a comedy film from 1926 that tells the story of a man who gets mistaken for a famous boxer. In order to impress a girl, he goes along with the charade and ends up in a boxing match. Hilarity ensues as he tries to navigate the world of boxing and prove himself while keeping up the facade.
Journeyman follows the story of a middleweight boxer, Matty Burton, who suffers a severe brain injury during a championship fight. The movie explores his road to recovery, the impact on his personal life, and the challenges he faces as he tries to regain his former self.
Body and Soul is a 1947 film noir drama about a boxer named Charley Davis who becomes a successful fighter but is corrupted by the allure of fame and fortune. As he climbs the ranks, he encounters greed, jealousy, and manipulation that threaten to destroy his career and personal relationships. Charley must navigate this treacherous world of boxing to regain his integrity and save himself from the destructive forces around him.
After a sexist joke goes viral, Cédric loses his job and sets out on a therapeutic journey to overcome his ingrained sexism and misogyny. In an attempt to challenge his beliefs, he hires a mysterious and liberated babysitter to shake things up in his life.
Prizefighter Mason loses his opening fight so wife Rose leaves him for Hollywood. Without her around Mason trains and starts winning. Rose comes back and wants Mason to dump his manager Regan and replace him with her secret lover Lewis.
A ring veteran turns a Texas tenderfoot into a winning fighter.
Final Resolution was a professional wrestling event produced by Impact Wrestling and the eleventh edition in the Final Resolution chronology. It took place on December 12, 2020.
Newspaper staffer Alice Woods persuades the editor to allow her to chase a story, that of prizefight contender Martin, who is about to fight for the championship. However, he does not know that his manager is preparing to double-cross him.
The stooges are the trainers of "Chopper", a beefy boxer, and they bet their bankroll on Chopper to win his next fight. When "Big Mike", their boss, tells them to have Chopper lose or they'll lose their lives, the boys try to soften up Chopper so he'll lose. The fight gets canceled and the stooges have to contend with an angry Big Mike and his goons.
A documentary tale about sport and politics under martial law. All of Poland saw the great goals of Boniek and Smolarek during the Espana '82 championships. For a moment, it was forgotten that the background of the sporting performance was martial law, censorship, an army on the streets, prisons filled with oppositionists. The performance of the players was so successful that it was called "the most beautiful series of martial law". The game is watched by interned activists of "Solidarity", sports journalists and censors, cutting out all manifestations of the opposition from television broadcasts. We also get to know the performance in Spain from the perspective of the players, trying to meet not only their ambitions but also to bear the burden of fans' expectations and regime propaganda.
In Whiplash (1948), a struggling artist turns to boxing to make a living. The film follows his journey as he navigates the glamorous yet treacherous world of prizefighting, all while dealing with romantic rivalries, dysfunctional relationships, and the dark underbelly of New York City. With its film-noir style and gripping plot, Whiplash is a must-watch for fans of drama and sport.
Steele gets into a fight with a ranch foreman, knocking the foreman out. The foreman was supposed to represent the ranch in a prize fight with a middleweight champion. Now Steele finds himself in the fight of his life.
Millionaire's son Duke wants to be a champion boxer but takes time out to enroll in college when he sees co-ed Susie. The students wonder about his having a chauffeur and house full of servants. Susie likes him but, to get rid of her, his manager tells her Duke already has a New York chorus girl. As the students listen to a radio broadcast of his victorious fight from San Francisco, she learns that the student Duke is the boxer Duke and that there is no chorus girl.
A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.
Gruff boxing manager "Square Shooting Murph" Murphy manages a naive boxer from Indiana, Homer Baston.Homer is willing to give up his boxing career searching for his parents, so Murphy hires two jailbirds to play his long lost parents to keep him in the ring.
A feisty Irish woman turns a truck driver into a championship boxer.
The Right That Failed