Fighters: Fictional

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Raging Bull

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Johnny Barnes as Sugar Ray Robinson and “Irish” Johnny Turner as Laurent Dauthuille give us some opponents:

Sugar Ray Barnes MW E12
Jean D'Laurent MW S5 France

Bear

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Raging Bull

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Johnny Barnes as Sugar Ray Robinson and “Irish” Johnny Turner as Laurent Dauthuille give us some opponents:

Sugar Ray Barnes MW E12
Jean D'Laurent MW S5 France

Bear

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Pulp Fiction

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Butch Coolidge played by Bruce Willis.

Butch Coolidge HW S4

Bear

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Mars Attacks

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Byron Williams ex hw champ played by Jim Brown.


Byron Williams HW S9

Bear

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Play It to the Bone

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Second rate middleweight boxers Vince Bondreau played by Woody Harrelson in Play It to the Bone (1999).

Vince Bondreau MW B2

Bear

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Play It to the Bone

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Cesar Dominguez played by Antonio Banderas in Play It to the Bone (1999).

Cesar Dominguez MW S2

Bear

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Golden Boy

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Clifford Odets play, Golden Boy, debuted at the Belasco Theatre 11/4/1937. Although Odets had John Garfield in mind for the role of Joe Bonaparte the Group Theatre production cast Luther Adler in the role.
In 1939 a film version was released. Garfield's studio didn't release him to pursue the role. The, then, unknown Bill Holden took the role instead and was launched into stardom. Garfield finally got a shot at the role in 1952 shortly before his death in a revival of the play. In the 60's it was rewritten as a musical starring Sammy Davis Jr. as Joe Wellington.

For the Adler version here is:

Young Joe Bonaparte LW B6

Bear

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Golden Boy

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Holden as Joe Bonaparte LW E10

Bear

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Golden Boy

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Garfield as Joe Bonaparte III LW E9

Bear

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Golden Boy

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In the musical there is

Joe Wellington LW E10

Bear

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Golden Boy

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The Chocloate Drop was replaced by Lopez in the musical. He was played by Jaime Rogers who had previously played Loco in West Side Story.

Jaime Lopez LW S10 Mexico

Bear

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Golden Boy

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Henry Bratsburg (better known today as Harry Morgan-of Dragnet and Mash fame) as Pepper White in the Group theatre's 1937 production of Golden Boy.

Young Pepper White LW s6

Bear

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Golden Boy

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Pepper White (uncredited) played by Frank Jenks in Golden Boy (1939)

Pepper White LW S7

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Spenser

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Robert Parker is most noted for creating Spenser, a PI who once fought professionally. Robert Urich played Sepnser in a TV series and several films.

Shamus Spenser HW E5


Bear

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Spenser

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Joe Mantegna played Spenser in three films: Small Vices, Thin Air, and Walking Shadow. In Small Vices Spenser used the alias Pervis Anathama.

Pervis Anathama HW E4

Bear

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Spenser

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Parker's character Hawk was played by three different actors. Avery Brooks also played Hawk in a TV series A Man Called Hawk.

Avery Hawk HW E5

Bear

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Spenser

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Shiek Mahmud-Bey is a former New York Golden Gloves Finalist who got his start at a small acting company founded by his boxing trainer plays Hawk in Small Vices. Ernie Hudson plays Hawk in Walking Shadow.

Bonebreaker Hawk HW S4 (bey)
M.C. Hawk HW E4

Bear

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Spenser

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Shiek Mahmud-Bey is a former New York Golden Gloves Finalist who got his start at a small acting company founded by his boxing trainer plays Hawk in Small Vices. Ernie Hudson plays Hawk in Walking Shadow.

Bonebreaker Hawk HW S4 (bey)
M.C. Hawk HW E4

Bear

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Eddie Brown

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Austin, here is Eddie Brown from the cover of "The Professional".

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Joe Palooka Rating and Bio

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Here is my rating of the fictional Joe Palooka. Edit his date of birth to 1913 (refer below).

http://www.kiva.net/~jonjeff/joe_palooka.htm

Joe Palooka was one of the most famous comic strip characters in the 1940's. The cartoon figure was created by cartoonist Ham Fisher in 1928 as a 15-year-old who beat up neighborhood bullies. As he grew older, he became a boxing champion managed by Knobby Walsh.

Palooka became the country's most patriotic character in 1942 when he stepped down from the ring to enlist as a private in the United States Army.

Palooka was such a hero that when the Limestone Industry planned to celebrate the business' 100th anniversary in 1948, it decided to reproduce Palooka's likeness. Bedford stone carvers' George Hitchcock and Harry Easton began working on the statue at the Indiana Limestone Company and finished the work on Bedford's square.

Fisher and 4,500 people attended the dedication on June 16, 1948. The statue was placed at the Indiana Limestone's Dickinson Park on old IN 37. After being vandalized numerous times the statue was moved to the Hoosier-Joyner Limestone Mill in Oolitic.

After several years the statue was taken to the Bedford FOP Park. In 1984 the Bedford FOP donated the statue to Oolitic, and it was moved to its present location on Main Street between the Town Hall and the Post Office.