(Boxing) Crown the Heavyweight Champion of Filmdom

[Mrdamron]

With the upcoming release of CREED garnering terrific reviews and critical acclaim for its young star, let's reflect on one of Hollywood's longest running and most successful subgenres: The Boxing Film! Some of our greatest actors and screen legends have put on the tights, laced up their gloves and taken to the ring. But WHO is the greatest film fighter of them all? They have trained, bled, sweat, grunted for our amusement now you crown the undisputed Heavyweight Champion of Tinseltown....who wins the decision on your score card?


THE CONTENDERS

• John Garfield as Charley Davis in Body and Soul (1947)
• Kirk Douglas as Midge Kelly in Champion (1949)
• Paul Newman as Rocky Graziano in Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
• Anthony Quinn as Mountain Rivera in Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962)
• James Earl Jones as Jack Jefferson in The Great White Hope (1970)
• Stacy Keach as Billy Tully in Fat City (1972)
• Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa in The Rocky films (1976-)
• Robert De Niro as Jake La Motta in Raging Bull (1980)
• Daniel Day-Lewis as Danny Flynn in The Boxer (1997)
• Denzel Washington as Rubin Carter in The Hurricane (1999)
• Brad Pitt as Mickey O'Neil in Snatch (2000)
• Will Smith as Muhammad Ali in Ali (2001)
• Hilary Swank as Maggie Fitzgerald in Million Dollar Baby (2004)
• Russell Crowe as Jim Braddock in The Cinderella Man (2005)
• Mark Wahlberg as Micky Ward in The Fighter (2010)
• Jake Gyllenhaal as Billy Hope in Southpaw (2015)
• Michael B. Jordan as Adonis Creed in Creed (2015)