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7 March 2005 (USA)
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Who will roll? more
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Hosts Sylvester Stallone and Sugar Ray Leonard give 16 young boxing hopefuls a shot at the big time...
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Boxing
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Boxing Ring
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Punch
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Elimination
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Challenge
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Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys.
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Cast
(Series Cast Summary - 9 of 114) | 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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USA:90 min (pilot episode) (including commercials) | 120 min (season finale) (including commercials) | 60 min (including commercials)
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Sylvester Stallone's brother Frank Stallone participated as a boxing scout while looking for contenders in spring 2004 in the United States.
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Quotes:
Jesse Brinkley:
Ishe, this cat right here can fight.
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Referenced in "Favouritism: Boy George's Queerest TV Moments (#1.1)" (2005)
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I feel happy but still confused about this show. It has everything I could dream of from a good show. GOOD boxers, Stallone and Sugar Ray, tactics and psyching.
But I can't stand the dramatizing music, slow motions and empty bombastic phrases. And I hate the filming of the matches - lots of audience filming on family and friends, lots of slow motion and the from below angle never gives you a possibility to understand how the fight goes. And I feel uncertain all the time if these fights are really just the boxers doing their best, or following a script to dramatize the match - the matches are swinging forth and back a bit much.
But I just can't help loving the show. I hope that I'm not tricked, but that this show is actually the real thing.