Après avoir été battu et laissé pour mort de peur de vaincre le fils de son ancien employeur, Richard, dans un match de boxe, Hector Villa s'entraîne avec l'entraîneur démoralisé Billy pour assurer la sécurité de sa famille et se venger.
En 1975, le boxeur poids lourd Chuck Wepner affronte sur le ring le champion de la même catégorie, Mohamed Ali. Alors que tout le monde pense qu'il va se ridiculiser, Chuck tient quasiment les 15 rounds. Il gagne le respect du public et devient une célébrité. D'autant plus que son histoire a inspiré un jeune acteur alors inconnu, Sylvester Stallone, qui écrit alors le scénario d'un futur film à succès, Rocky. Chuck, le fêtard, va cependant tomber dans une spirale qui l'éloigne de sa femme Phyl et de sa fille Kimberley.
Jerry Ferro is turning 40 years old and is not what you would call a success. He works part-time in construction as a carpenter and part-time as a boxing instructor at a fitness center near Los Angeles. He drives a beat-up pickup truck and loses both the construction job and the woman in his life.
Strength and Honour tells the story of an Irish-American boxer, Sean Kelleher (Michael Madsen), who accidentally kills his friend in the ring and promises his wife that he will never box again. However, years later, when he discovers that his only son is dying of the same hereditary heart disorder which has taken his wife, he is forced to break his promise in order to raise the substantial funds needed for the surgery that could save his son’s life.
À sa sortie de prison, l'ancien boxeur Mong Fu décide de retrouver une jeune photographe, Pim, qu'il avait rencontrée lors d'un championnat de boxe thaï. Retournant à Bangkok, Mong apprend par un ami d'enfance de Pim que celle-ci est morte lors d'une altercation avec des trafiquants de drogue et, comble de tout, que Mong est père d'une fille de 14 ans, portant le nom de Ploy. Cette dernière serait installée à l'orphelinat Saint-Mary, tenu par une jeune sœur.
With encouragement from his girlfriend, Gloria (Carmen Lee), Ken Wong (Aaron Kwok), a rebellious and stubborn youth, decides to focus on the sport of boxing. During a match, Ken accidentally kills Gloria's older brother, Rocky (Michael Tong), and the two break up. Ken is unwilling to give up his boxing career and seeks tuition from boxing master, Black Jack Hung (Sammo Hung). He also manages to reconcile with Gloria, who supports Ken returning to the ring to complete her brother's wish to challenge Yamada Motokazu (Sawada Kenya), the boxing champion of Asia. Due to constantly suffering blows to his head, Ken's is physically traumatized and once able to defeat Yamada, he also collapses.
Durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, les soldats chinois Jet et Zhang sont faits prisonniers par les Japonais. De retour au pays à la fin de la guerre, ils pensent être accueillis en héros mais ils se rendent compte rapidement que ce sont les Américains qui sont considérés comme les véritables héros.
Dans les années 1970, Grace et Charlie Bontempo sont les propriétaires de la première maison close légale du Nevada, dans un ranch près de Reno. Charlie fait signer un contrat au boxeur argentin Armando Bruza, qu'il espère faire combattre Mohamed Ali, mais à cause de son casier judiciaire, c'est Grace qui est légalement le manager du boxeur. Bruza s'entraîne au ranch et fait des avances à Grace. Celle-ci, d'abord offensée en raison de leur importante différence d'âge, finit par être charmée par la personnalité de Bruza.
Le film raconte l'histoire de Jimmy Connely, un laitier britannique qui, lors d'un entraînement, met K.O. le champion du monde des poids moyens qui devait jouer le match du siècle. Le secret du jeune laitier? Le calcium! En effet, il boit chaque matin une bouteille de lait qui lui assure une ossature d'acier. Jimmy est alors désigné remplaçant du champion et va être embarqué dans un tourbillon d'aventures par son manager qui est plus expert en recrutement d'escort girls qu'en combats de boxe....
The film starts with the opening credits with clips from the first fight between Manny Pacquiao and Erik Morales. After which, it started when a beaten Manny (Jericho Rosales) depressed upon his defeat to Morales. He was with his trainer Buboy Fernandez (Bayani Agbayani) and his wife Jinkee (Bea Alonzo). After that, the scene flashes back to a young Manny (Jiro Manio) being experienced as a boxer in General Santos City. It comes back to the present time when Manny was hospitalized. It comes back to his childhood with his strict mother Dionesia (Jaclyn Jose) whose having a misunderstanding with her husband Rosalio (Tirso Cruz III) and he started his training as a young boxer. Then it goes back to the time when Manny is planning to go back to the Philippines. After that it flashes back to Manny as a boxer, there he met Nanay Parcon (Gloria Sevilla), a recruiter of young boxers and Emong Dionisio (Jay Manalo). Her mother disagrees with Manny's decision to be a boxer because he is too young. After that, it comes back to the present time, when Manny and his team arrived in the Philippines. It flashes back again when he went to Manila to be a boxer. He lived in a gym in Malabon owned by Polding Correa (Ricky Davao). Emong saw Manny and began his dream as a boxer. He worked in a construction and selling sampaguita. It goes back when he arrived at his home with his family greeting him even though he lost. It flashes back when Manny began his journey as a boxer. At seventeen years old, he became a professional, and he was undefeated at that time. He was handled eventually by Ruben Novales (Tony Mabesa). He arrived at General Santos and hired Buboy Fernandez, his close friend as his trainer. There he learned that her parents were separated. His undefeated streak ended when he was knocked-out by Rustico Torrecampo. In present time, he learned also that Emong is using Manny's name for his ventures. Emong is now poor, and it flashes back when he was a boxer, he was hit by a car and was hospitalized. In a mall, he met Jinkee Jamora. Jinkee had a twin sister, Janet but her mother is confused about Manny. Manny and Jinkee married in a civil wedding. Dionesia disagrees with his wife. In Thailand, Manny is the Flyweight champion, he lost to Medgoen Singsurat. There, he became addicted to drugs. After that, he changed and never used drugs again. Manny's victories became a hit. One of which when he won over Marco Antonio Barrera. The scene goes back upon the controversial fight between Pacquiao and Morales. In the end, the two had their rematch where Manny won via a 10-Round Technical Knock-Out. The movie ended when Manny was given a Hero's Welcome and some clips of his motorcade.
En 1936, Max Schmelling, champion du monde de boxe, est la fierté de l'Allemagne nazie. Mais lorsqu'il perd face à un boxeur noir, Hitler se sent humilié et l'envoie au front. Face aux atrocités de la guerre, il va lutter avec courage et tenter de survivre...
In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs. One day, Alan Darcy (Bob Hoskins), a highly motivated man with the same kind of youth experience, starts trying to get the young people off the street and into doing something they can believe in; boxing. Soon, he opens a training facility which is accepted gratefully by them and the gangs start to grow together into friends. Darcy manages to organise a public fight for them to prove what they have learned. A training camp with hiking tours into the mountains of Wales forge the group into a tightly-knit club society. With the day of the fight drawing closer, the young boxers get more and more excited.
The film is based on the journey of Pakistani Olympian boxer Hussain Shah who started his life on the streets of Lyari, Karachi as a homeless child and went on to dominate Asian boxing for nearly a decade. He became the only boxer of Pakistan history to win an Olympic medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics but was afterwards forgotten by public and media alike.
Un chômeur écossais sortant de prison se lance dans des combats à mains nues pour le compte d'un organisateur de combats truqués, ce qui met son couple en péril.