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 [...]
18May12
Champion: Danny Trejo (2011)
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Tagged Boxing, Danny Trejo, Dennis Hopper, Documentary, Fight Card, King of the Outback Launch, Val Kilmer
Tagged Boxing, Danny Trejo, Dennis Hopper, Documentary, Fight Card, King of the Outback Launch, Val Kilmer
17May12
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 [...]
17May12
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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Posted in Film, Television
Tagged Boxing, Fight Card, Film Posters, Frank Bruno, Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, Lennox Lewis
Tagged Boxing, Fight Card, Film Posters, Frank Bruno, Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, Lennox Lewis
17May12
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, [...]
16May12
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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Tagged Book Review, Boxing, Fight Card, George Foreman, King of the Outback Launch, Muhammad Ali, Norman Mailer
Tagged Book Review, Boxing, Fight Card, George Foreman, King of the Outback Launch, Muhammad Ali, Norman Mailer
16May12
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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Tagged Boxing, Errol Flynn, Fight Card, Gentleman Jim, Jim Corbett, King of the Outback Launch
Tagged Boxing, Errol Flynn, Fight Card, Gentleman Jim, Jim Corbett, King of the Outback Launch
15May12
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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Tagged Book Review, Boxing, Fight Card, King of the Outback Launch, Rocky, Sylvester Stallone
Tagged Book Review, Boxing, Fight Card, King of the Outback Launch, Rocky, Sylvester Stallone
14May12
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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Tagged Boxing, Fight Card, King of the Outback Launch, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Sugar Ray Leonard, Superfight
Tagged Boxing, Fight Card, King of the Outback Launch, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Sugar Ray Leonard, Superfight
14May12
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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Tagged Boxing, Fight Card, Jeff Bridges, John Huston, King of the Outback Launch, Stacy Keach
Tagged Boxing, Fight Card, Jeff Bridges, John Huston, King of the Outback Launch, Stacy Keach
13May12
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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Tagged Boxing, Fight Card, Jeff Bridges, John Huston, King of the Outback Launch
Tagged Boxing, Fight Card, Jeff Bridges, John Huston, King of the Outback Launch
