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6.0/10   76 votes
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Release Date:
28 September 1983 (USA) more
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Awards:
Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys. more
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Treat Williams ... Jack Dempsey

Sam Waterston ... Doc Kearns
Sally Kellerman ... Maxine Cates

Victoria Tennant ... Estelle Taylor

Peter Mark Richman ... Tex Rickard

Jesse Vint ... Bernie Dempsey

Robert Harper ... Damon Runyon
John McLiam ... Hyrum Dempsey
Bonnie Bartlett ... Celia Dempsey

James Noble ... Gavin McNab
John Lehne ... Gene Normile
Cliff Emmich ... Otto
Michael McManus ... Babe Ruth

Mark L. Taylor ... Price (as Mark Taylor)
Jimmy Nickerson ... Gene Tunney
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Additional Details

Runtime:
100 min | Belgium:112 min (video version)
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1.33 : 1 more
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Certification:
Iceland:12 | Norway:16 (video premiere)

Fun Stuff

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The African-American fighter named "Johnson" who injures Dempsey was in real life John Lester Johnson, who would later go on to do bit part acting roles, most notably "Bumbo" ("Uncle George") in the "Our Gang" short "The Kid from Borneo." more
Quotes:
[After Dempsey loses a fight.]
Estelle Taylor: What happened?
Jack Dempsey: Honey, I forgot to duck.
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1 out of 3 people found the following comment useful.
Awful, 19 April 2006
4/10
Author: Seaver41 from la

Besides being a stereotypical watered down TV movie, this film has some down-right terrible performances. Sally Kellerman, who I really like, was just awful. I mean, unbearable. In fact, pretty much every actress in this movie was bad. It was baffling how the people behind the scenes could have watched the dailies on this film and okayed everything.

The script itself was poorly written but what do you expect from an early 80's TV movie? Williams and Waterson were okay in their parts but overall the movie was not good.

On the plus side, they did, however, do a good job with the fight scenes. Generally in these TV boxing movies, the fight scenes are so amateurish and poorly done (you usually can clearly see the punches are not connecting) it's surprising to see fight scenes done well in this film, considering how everything else wasn't done so well.

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