Heavyweight

You know, I've seen all of those movies.

Certainly, Requiem for a Heavyweight, that is just, you know, that movie kills me every time.

Every time I watch it, you know, it's just incredible.

I think, you know, one of the things is, is this recurring theme of boxers struggling out of the transition of boxing is it's psychologically powerful, but it's also, you know, what's next in a chapter for a boxer.

I'm extremely proud of it.

I'm donating all profits from the sale of the book to the Ricky Hatton Foundation.

My first book, Heavyweight Title Fight of the 1980s, is still available and both books can be found on Amazon.

I'll put the links in the show notes.

I'll sit down with you again, and we can watch it together while, uh, at the Film Noir Fest and, and see if you could change my mind in some ways.

And then we move on to Requiem for a Heavyweight from 1962, which is the most, uh, the last of the chronological list.

Yeah, I love, I love this film.

I love this film.

Yeah.

A very young Cassius Clay when he was still Cassius Clay before he became Muhammad Ali.

So this was '62, so Ali was two years into his pro career because he won the Olympic gold in Rome in 1960 and then won the World Heavyweight title in 1964, so he was still a young, beautiful, super fast heavyweight.

And we only see...