Your dad's favorite boxer finally gets the TV movie he deserves — for better or worse.
The film details the life of Ray Mancini, a World Boxing Association world lightweight champion boxer from 1982 to 1984, Hollywood actor and a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
Acting
Robert Blake brings haunted intensity to Lenny's broken dreams.
Production
Period detail that screams 'we had a budget for one vintage car.'
Director
Richard Michaels
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Ray Mancini served as technical advisor and appears in cameo; Robert Blake was fresh off 'Baretta' and arguably never more watchably unhinged.
The Kim Duk-koo bout changed boxing forever — this TV movie arrived just as that tragedy was entering cultural memory, making it both timely and slightly uncomfortable.
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