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User Rating:
6.6/10   332 votes
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Creator:
Mark Burnett
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Contact:
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Seasons:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 full episode list
Release Date:
7 March 2005 (USA) more
Genre:
Reality-TV | Sport more
Tagline:
Who will roll? more
Plot:
Hosts Sylvester Stallone and Sugar Ray Leonard give 16 young boxing hopefuls a shot at the big time... more
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Awards:
Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys. more
NewsDesk:
(19 articles)
Reality Shows Drive Diverse Pool of Contestants to Deadly Fate
 (From The Wrap. 1 June 2009, 6:23 PM, PDT)

Cynopsis 10/1/08
 (From Cynopsis. 1 October 2008, 1:30 AM, PDT)

User Comments:
A neat Show more

Cast

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Sugar Ray Leonard ... Himself - Host / ... (43 episodes, 2005-2007)
Jeff Connor ... Himself - Ring Announcer / ... (32 episodes, 2005-2007)
Alfonso Gomez Jr. ... Fighter / ... (32 episodes, 2005-2007)
Tommy Gallagher ... Trainer / ... (27 episodes, 2005-2006)
Jeremy Williams ... Trainer / ... (27 episodes, 2005-2006)
Sergio Mora ... Fighter / ... (27 episodes, 2005-2007)
Jeff Fraza ... Fighter / ... (27 episodes, 2005-2006)
Peter Manfredo Jr. ... Fighter / ... (25 episodes, 2005-2007)
Jesse Brinkley ... Fighter / ... (22 episodes, 2005-2007)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
USA:90 min (pilot episode) (including commercials) | 120 min (season finale) (including commercials) | 60 min (including commercials)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Company:
DreamWorks SKG more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Both Sylvester Stallone's daughters appear in this show as spectators in a fight. more
Quotes:
Tommy Gallagher: Peter's not crying. Let's go back to work. At 7:00 you better get your asses up. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "South Park: Wing (#9.3)" (2005) more

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3 out of 9 people found the following comment useful:-
A neat Show, 5 April 2005
Author: ChrisTreborn from God's Won Country

Honestly I don't like those Rocky movies of the 80's, I was a great fan of Rambo at that times. While watching spoofing movies now, I knew how much that Rocky era spread up to the English cinema, how much Stallone contributed to Hollywood movies. So a reality show by Sylvester Stallone it has very much feeling. Now reentering that era, a reality boxing show tries to narrate the hard ships of a boxer during the path to his success. Rocky star Stallone selects some upcoming boxing talents which were divided in to two teams of equal members East Coast (blue) and West Coast (Yellow). In each episode one of them have to choose their opponent from the other team and they fights. The winner stays, the looser goes.

I like its idea, I always forget that it's a reality show, it has more drama, more tension, more rage. I love this show and also it gives me the chance to see another side of my greatest action Hero Sylvester Stallone.

The weak point I think, it lacks to show the extreme exercise of the boxers. I was thrilled to see Italian Stallion's training in Rocky movies, but when it comes to small screen either the producers or participants forgets to present the best part of the show. Plus mixing the dubbed voices during the match, the spectators of the Contender matches didn't cheer so much, but the audio we hear during the match I think that was added/enhanced during the post production. And also of course the presence of camera crew members during extreme emotional situations between the participants and his relatives. I mean it makes disturbance to their states, making them to fake their driven emotions.

Forgetting its drawbacks it's a nice show an angry male like me didn't want to miss off.

I gave this show 8 out of 10

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