Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Top five movies that only sound like boxing movies

1. The Ring (2002) – In this shocker, watching a particular videotape makes people die. Most shockingly, it's not a tape of Ruiz-Toney.

2. Heavyweights (1995) – Psychotic fitness instructor Ben Stiller torments overweight kids at a “fat camp.” Whoever survives gets a shot at the WBO title.

3. Red Corner (1997) -- Richard Gere is accused of doing something wrong in an Eastern nation. Like that would ever happen.

4. Going the Distance (2004) – Raunchy road movie involving sexy teenagers, also known as National Lampoon's Going the Distance. The ref should have stopped it.

5. Boxing Helena (1993) – Sicko flicko about weirdo doctor who cuts off a woman's limbs. A terrible way to make weight.


In the news: Tim Graham looks at Hasim Rahman's road to redemption, which runs through Rochester Thursday night, in the Buffalo News. Tim Smith asks Michael Grant why he's coming back after two dormant years (Grant fights on Wall Street on June 27) in the New York Daily News. Bernard Fernandez catches up with former Pennsylvania State Boxing Commission honcho Jimmy Binns in his weekly boxing column in the Philadelphia Daily News. Joe Maxse in the Cleveland Plain Dealer says a Jermain Taylor-Kelly Pavlik bout is looking like more of a possibilty. St. Clair Murraine makes an early nomination of Cotto-Judah as 2007 fight of the year in the Tallahassee Democrat.

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