The "shitty business" of boxing, even including cold-blooded murder. Retribution for this comes in the ring, as a Golden Gloves champion, in his first professional fight(!), steps in for his dead brother against the fifth-ranked middleweight in the world (11 wins, 2 losses!). Obviously a movie for, and by, people who learned everything they know about the sport from Rocky and its sequels. Craig Sheffer, Gene Hackman, Jeff Fahey, Jennifer Beals; directed by David Drury. (1988) — Duncan Shepherd
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