Browsing the archives for the Boxing tag

Champion: Danny Trejo (2011)

Director: Joe Eckardt Featuring: Danny Trejo, Val Kilmer, Dennis Hopper, Steve Buscemi, Robert Rodriguez Music: Jared Lipof, Mark Migdal Champion is a candid documentary about the life of actor Danny Trejo. You would recognise Trejo instantly, since the late 1980′s he has been appearing in movies, usually as the fearsome bad guy. He has appeared [...]

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Jimmy Carruthers v Vic Toweel

This footage is pretty old, but, and please forgive the parochialism, but shows Australian Jimmy Carruthers fighting Vic Toweel for the World Bantam Weight Title in 1952. At the time, Carruthers was very much the underdog – and most people expected an easy win for Toweel. But, as this footage shows, somebody forget to tell [...]

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Boxing Posters 1

A cavalcade of boxing posters, from the MovieGoods website. May sees the launch of King of the Outback, the sixth book in the popular Fightcard series – and my literary debut (writing as Jack Tunney). Accordingly, in a month long celebration, Permission to Kill will be looking back and some of the highlights – and [...]

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Kid Gloves: Rory Gallagher

I am a big fan of Irish blues guitarist, Rory Gallagher – particularly the album Irish Tour ’74, which I have played to death. Gallagher loved pulp fiction, and many of his songs are like little slices of pulp – covering everything from spies to, well, you guessed it – boxing! The song, Kid Gloves, [...]

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The Fight

Author: Norman Mailer Publisher (Great Britain): Hart-Davis, MacGibbon Ltd First Published: 1976 The Rumble in the Jungle, the fight between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali, which took place in Kinshasa, Zaire, on October 30, 1974 (originally scheduled for September 25) is now looked upon as one of the great fights of the Twentieth Century. And [...]

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Gentleman Jim: Image Gallery

May sees the launch of King of the Outback, the sixth book in the popular Fightcard series – and my literary debut (writing as Jack Tunney). Accordingly, in a month long celebration, Permission to Kill will be looking back and some of the highlights – and lowlights – of boxing in film and literature – [...]

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Rocky – Novelisation

Author: Julia Sorel Based on a Screenplay by Sylvester Stallone Publisher: Ballantine Books Published: 1976 When I was a kid I used to love movie tie-in books (I still do). Until I was fifteen, home video didn’t exist, and films took at least six years to appear of commercial television. So if you really liked [...]

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Superbout: Hagler v Leonard

Billed as ‘The Superfight’, on April 6, 1987, Marvellous Marvin Hagler and Sugar Ray Leonard battled it out for the WBC Middleweight Championship, in front of 15,000 fans at a packed outdoor arena at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. Among those fans were celebrities such as Frank Sinatra, Gene Hackman, Bo Derek, Joan Collins, Whoopie [...]

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Fat City: Poster Gallery

May sees the launch of King of the Outback, the sixth book in the popular Fightcard series – and my literary debut (writing as Jack Tunney). Accordingly, in a month long celebration, Permission to Kill will be looking back and some of the highlights – and lowlights – of boxing in film and literature – [...]

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Fat City (1972)

I have never seen, John Huston’s Fat City – so let’s discover it together. Well, at least some of you can. On my Mac, I can watch the whole movie – but for some reason on my PC, I can only watch a 5 minute preview. I don’t know why? I hope most of the [...]

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