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** More than 20 years after the film, it became a reality again, albeit not for the heavyweight title. Floyd Mayweather fought MMA champion Connor [=MacGregor=] [=MacGregor=], who had never fought a single professional boxing match, under boxing rules. Mayweather, a far more defensive and cautious fighter than the fictional Roper, let [=MacGregor=] exhaust deplete his stamina before stepping up his own attack, and the referee stopped the fight in the 10th round to keep an exhausted and defenseless [=MacGregor=] from being seriously hurt by Mayweather.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The film was made during a long era when black fighters dominated heavyweight boxing through legends like Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, and Lennox Lewis. Various characters mock the idea of a Caucasian heavyweight boxing champ as unthinkable. At the time the film was made, the last white heavyweight champion of note was Rocky Marciano, who had retired 40 years before.[[note]]Gerrie Coetzee (1983) and Ingemar Johansson (1959) had both also been champions, but essentially just for one fight each, and neither were unified.[[/note]] Since the retirement of Lennox Lewis in 2004, white boxers have arguably dominated the heavyweight scene mostly in the form of fighters from the former Soviet Union. The Ukrainian [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klitschko_brothers Klitschko brothers]] held the heavyweight division hostage for over ten years before passing the torch to the white Englishman Tyson Fury and fellow Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk, and fringe titlists and top contenders also tended to be disproportionately Eastern European.[[note]]Nikolai Valuev, Ruslan Chagaev, Alexander Povetkin, Sultan Ibragimov, Siarhei Liakhovich, Oleg Maskaev, and Murat Gassiev, among others.[[/note]] Someone saying that a Caucasian champion is impossible would seem like the outlier today, rather than the other way around.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The film was made during a long era when black fighters dominated heavyweight boxing through legends like Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, and Lennox Lewis. Various characters mock the idea of a Caucasian heavyweight boxing champ as unthinkable. At the time the film was made, the last white heavyweight champion of note was Rocky Marciano, who had retired 40 years before.[[note]]Gerrie Coetzee (1983) and Ingemar Johansson (1959) had both also been champions, but essentially just for one fight each, and neither were unified.[[/note]] Since the retirement of Lennox Lewis in 2004, white boxers have arguably dominated the heavyweight scene mostly in the form of fighters from the former Soviet Union. The Ukrainian [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klitschko_brothers Klitschko brothers]] held the heavyweight division hostage for over ten years before passing the torch to the white Englishman Tyson Fury and fellow Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk, and fringe titlists and top contenders also tended to be disproportionately Eastern European.[[note]]Nikolai Valuev, Ruslan Chagaev, Alexander Povetkin, Sultan Ibragimov, Siarhei Liakhovich, Oleg Maskaev, and Murat Gassiev, among others.[[/note]] Someone saying that a Caucasian champion is impossible would seem like the outlier today, rather than the other way around.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The film was made during a long era when black fighters dominated heavyweightboxing through boxing, including legends like Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, and Lennox Lewis. Various characters mock the idea of a Caucasian heavyweight boxing champ as unthinkable. At the time the film was made, the last white heavyweight champion of note was Rocky Marciano, who had retired 40 years before.[[note]]Gerrie Coetzee (1983) and Ingemar Johansson (1959) had both also been champions, but essentially just for one fight each, and neither were unified.unified so they tend to be glossed over or shrugged off. Similarly, Tommy Morrison briefly held the WBO heavyweight title, but the WBO was not considered a credible boxing organization at the time, and often crowned "champions" that were blatantly inferior to the champions recognized by rival sanctioning bodies.[[/note]] Since the retirement of Lennox Lewis in 2004, white boxers have arguably dominated the heavyweight scene mostly in the form of fighters from the former Soviet Union. The Ukrainian [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klitschko_brothers Klitschko brothers]] held the heavyweight division hostage for over ten years before passing the torch to the white Englishman Tyson Fury and fellow Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk, and fringe titlists and top contenders also tended to be disproportionately Eastern European.[[note]]Nikolai Valuev, Ruslan Chagaev, Alexander Povetkin, Sultan Ibragimov, Siarhei Liakhovich, Oleg Maskaev, and Murat Gassiev, among others.[[/note]] Someone saying that a Caucasian champion is impossible would seem like the outlier today, rather than the other way around.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The film was made during a long era when black fighters dominated heavyweight boxing through legends like Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, and Lennox Lewis .Lewis. Various characters mock the idea of a Caucasian heavyweight boxing champ as unthinkable. At the time the film was made, the last white heavyweight champion of note was Rocky Marciano, who had retired 40 years before. [[note]]Gerrie Coetzee (1983) and Ingemar Johansson (1959) had both also been champions, but essentially just for one fight each, and neither were unified.[[/note]] Since the retirement of Lennox Lewis in 2004, white boxers have arguably dominated the heavyweight scene through mostly in the form of fighters from the former Soviet Union. The Ukrainian [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klitschko_brothers Klitschko brothers]], who brothers]] held the heavyweight division hostage for over ten years before passing the torch to the white Englishman Tyson Fury. Fury and fellow Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk, and fringe titlists and top contenders also tended to be disproportionately Eastern European.[[note]]Nikolai Valuev, Ruslan Chagaev, Alexander Povetkin, Sultan Ibragimov, Siarhei Liakhovich, Oleg Maskaev, and Murat Gassiev, among others.[[/note]] Someone saying that a Caucasian champion is impossible would seem like the outlier today, rather than the other way around.
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** [[Film/ThorRagnarok Jeff Goldblum's character ends up as a fight promoter.]]
** The film got a [[http://www.stlamerican.com/sports/sports_columnists/sports_eye/the-great-white-hype-will-become-racial-reality-this-summer/article_ff7abede-56d0-11e7-be83-7ffd401bbad6.html brief resurgence]] during the lead-up to the boxing match between Conor [=McGregor=] (a white, Irish UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts fighter who never fought as a boxer) and the undefeated boxing champion Floyd Mayweather, a controversial and racially-charged match that was widely derided for being a shameless cash-grab. Like the movie, the fight itself ended up anti-climatically dominated by the Black boxing champ, though Mayweather, being a fighter with a defensive and cautious style, took ten rounds instead of [[CurbStompBattle thirty seconds]] to win his fight.
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** [[Film/ThorRagnarok Jeff Goldblum's character ends up as a fight promoter.]]quick knockout, Mayweather let [=McGregor=] gas himself out before defeating him in the tenth round.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The film was made during a long era when black fighters, almost all of them American, dominated heavyweight boxing and legends like Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis and Evander Holyfield were all on the scene. Various characters mock the idea of a Caucasian heavyweight boxing champ as unthinkable. (At the time the film was made, the last time a Caucasian boxer had been truly recognized as ''the'' heavyweight champion was Ingemar Johansson, who scored a major upset victory over Floyd Patterson in 1959, and promptly lost the title back to Patterson when the two men had a rematch. The last white heavyweight champion most of the audience would know, Rocky Marciano, had retired in the mid-1950s, 40 years before this movie was released. You could debate whether to call Tommy Morrison ''a'' world champion in 1993, when he held one of the various titles for a few months, although most boxing fans would not agree with you. [[note]]Overly long explanation: Boxing has no central governing body. World championships are created and recognized by private sanctioning bodies, of which there are many in boxing, as basically anybody with the money and interest to put together such a group can create their own championship belt and call someone a champion. Morrison was recognized by the World Boxing Organization, or WBO, which did ''eventually'' earn respect and became considered legitimate in the eyes of fans and the boxing establishment, but when it was first created [about 5 years before Morrison briefly held their heavyweight championship] it was a joke at best. For example, the WBO was created in the late 1980s, when Mike Tyson was at his peak, seemed unbeatable, and had become the recognized champion of every other sanctioning body. The WBO meanwhile chose to recognize Olympic silver medalist Francesco Damiani as Heavyweight Champion. Don't feel bad if you've never heard of Damiani, as even truly hardcore boxing fans mostly know him just for that piece of trivia. Embarrassingly, during its early years the WBO ranked [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrin_Morris a boxer who had died the previous year]] as one of its top ten contenders in one weight division, and moved him up in the rankings a month later, apparently still unaware that he was dead. Furthermore the organization was so dominated by British boxing promoter Frank Warren that boxing fans joked that WBO really stood for Warren Boxing Organization, as it seemed to exist mainly to give championship belts and exposure to Warren's fighters.[[/note]]) Come the 2000s and into TheNewTens, a number of boxers from the former Soviet Union would become high level contenders or title holders in the heavyweight division, and in particular a pair of Ukrainians, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klitschko_brothers Klitschko brothers]], would dominate the division from Lennox Lewis's retirement in 2004 until an over-the-hill Wladimir's defeat by Tyson Fury (himself a white boxer from England) in 2015. Someone saying that a Caucasian champion is impossible would seem like the outlier today, rather than the other way around.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The film was made during a long era when black fighters, almost all of them American, fighters dominated heavyweight boxing and through legends like Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis and Evander Holyfield were all on the scene.Holyfield, and Lennox Lewis . Various characters mock the idea of a Caucasian heavyweight boxing champ as unthinkable. (At At the time the film was made, the last time a Caucasian boxer had been truly recognized as ''the'' heavyweight champion was Ingemar Johansson, who scored a major upset victory over Floyd Patterson in 1959, and promptly lost the title back to Patterson when the two men had a rematch. The last white heavyweight champion most of the audience would know, note was Rocky Marciano, who had retired in the mid-1950s, 40 years before this movie was released. You could debate whether to call Tommy Morrison ''a'' world champion in 1993, when he held one of before. Since the various titles for a few months, although most boxing fans would not agree with you. [[note]]Overly long explanation: Boxing has no central governing body. World championships are created and recognized by private sanctioning bodies, retirement of which there are many Lennox Lewis in boxing, as basically anybody with 2004, white boxers have arguably dominated the money and interest to put together such a group can create their own championship belt and call someone a champion. Morrison was recognized by the World Boxing Organization, or WBO, which did ''eventually'' earn respect and became considered legitimate in the eyes of fans and the boxing establishment, but when it was first created [about 5 years before Morrison briefly held their heavyweight championship] it was a joke at best. For example, scene through the WBO was created in the late 1980s, when Mike Tyson was at his peak, seemed unbeatable, and had become the recognized champion of every other sanctioning body. The WBO meanwhile chose to recognize Olympic silver medalist Francesco Damiani as Heavyweight Champion. Don't feel bad if you've never heard of Damiani, as even truly hardcore boxing fans mostly know him just for that piece of trivia. Embarrassingly, during its early years the WBO ranked Ukrainian [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrin_Morris a boxer who had died the previous year]] as one of its top ten contenders in one weight division, and moved him up in the rankings a month later, apparently still unaware that he was dead. Furthermore the organization was so dominated by British boxing promoter Frank Warren that boxing fans joked that WBO really stood for Warren Boxing Organization, as it seemed to exist mainly to give championship belts and exposure to Warren's fighters.[[/note]]) Come the 2000s and into TheNewTens, a number of boxers from the former Soviet Union would become high level contenders or title holders in the heavyweight division, and in particular a pair of Ukrainians, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klitschko_brothers Klitschko brothers]], would dominate who held the heavyweight division from Lennox Lewis's retirement in 2004 until an over-the-hill Wladimir's defeat by hostage for over ten years before passing the torch to the white Englishman Tyson Fury (himself a white boxer from England) in 2015.Fury. Someone saying that a Caucasian champion is impossible would seem like the outlier today, rather than the other way around.
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** Despite frequent protests about giving a title shot to someone who has never fought as a pro, this ''has'' happened in reality.
** 1956 Olympic gold medalist Pete Rademacher bragged that he could defeat then Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson in his pro debut. Patterson obliged and gave Rademacher a title shot for his first pro fight, and knocked Rademacher out. (Although similar to the film Rademacher had some early success, knocking Patterson down in the 2nd round. Patterson came back and knocked Rademacher down seven times before the fight was stopped in the sixth round.)
** This almost happened again in 1976 with Teófilo Stevenson after Stevenson won a second Olympic Gold medal for heavyweight boxing, but Stevenson was a Cuban citizen and famously refused to defect from Cuba, which he would have needed to do in order to fight in a professionally recognized bout. (Stevenson later won a third Olympic gold medal, along with various other amateur championships and honors.)
** More than 20 years after the film, it became a reality again, albeit not for the heavyweight title. Floyd Mayweather fought MMA champion Connor [=MacGregor=] who had never fought a single professional boxing match, under boxing rules. Mayweather, a far more defensive and cautious fighter than the fictional Roper, let [=MacGregor=] exhaust his stamina before stepping up his own attack, and the referee stopped the fight in the 10th round to keep an exhausted and defenseless [=MacGregor=] from being hurt by Mayweather.
** Despite frequent protests about giving a title shot to someone who has never fought as a pro, this ''has'' happened in reality.
** 1956 Olympic gold medalist Pete Rademacher bragged that he could defeat then Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson in his pro debut. Patterson obliged and gave Rademacher a title shot for his first pro fight, and knocked Rademacher out. (Although similar to the film Rademacher had some early success, knocking Patterson down in the 2nd round. Patterson came back and knocked Rademacher down seven times before the fight was stopped in the sixth round.)
** This almost happened again in 1976 with Teófilo Stevenson after Stevenson won a second Olympic Gold medal for heavyweight boxing, but Stevenson was a Cuban citizen and famously refused to defect from Cuba, which he would have needed to do in order to fight in a professionally recognized bout. (Stevenson later won a third Olympic gold medal, along with various other amateur championships and honors.)
** More than 20 years after the film, it became a reality again, albeit not for the heavyweight title. Floyd Mayweather fought MMA champion Connor [=MacGregor=] who had never fought a single professional boxing match, under boxing rules. Mayweather, a far more defensive and cautious fighter than the fictional Roper, let [=MacGregor=] exhaust his stamina before stepping up his own attack, and the referee stopped the fight in the 10th round to keep an exhausted and defenseless [=MacGregor=] from being hurt by Mayweather.
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** The film got a [[http://www.stlamerican.com/sports/sports_columnists/sports_eye/the-great-white-hype-will-become-racial-reality-this-summer/article_ff7abede-56d0-11e7-be83-7ffd401bbad6.html brief resurgence]] during the racially-charged (but controversial and often derided for being a shameless cash-grab) lead-up to the boxing match between Connor Conor [=McGregor=] (a white, Irish MMA UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts fighter who never fought as a boxer) and the undefeated boxing champion Floyd Mayweather. Mayweather, a controversial and racially-charged match that was widely derided for being a shameless cash-grab. Like the movie, the fight itself ended up anti-climatically dominated by the Black boxing champ. (Although champ, though Mayweather, being a fighter with a defensive and cautious style, took 10 ten rounds instead of 30 seconds [[CurbStompBattle thirty seconds]] to win his fight).fight.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Mitchel and his report crew exposing the corruption of the politics that goes on in The Sultan's organization would no doubt make a more interesting ''Mockumentary'' film than the movie trying to cash in as a deconstructive parody of Rocky.
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* HilariousInHindsight: The film got a [[http://www.stlamerican.com/sports/sports_columnists/sports_eye/the-great-white-hype-will-become-racial-reality-this-summer/article_ff7abede-56d0-11e7-be83-7ffd401bbad6.html brief resurgence]] during the racially-charged (but controversial and often derided for being a shameless cash-grab) boxing match between the white, Irish MMA fighter who never fought boxing before Connor Mcgregor and the undisputed, undefeated boxing champion Floyd Mayweather. Like the movie, the fight itself ended up anti-climatically dominated by the Black boxing champ (though he won by points, not K.O).
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* HilariousInHindsight: The film got a [[http://www.stlamerican.com/sports/sports_columnists/sports_eye/the-great-white-hype-will-become-racial-reality-this-summer/article_ff7abede-56d0-11e7-be83-7ffd401bbad6.html brief resurgence]] during the racially-charged (but controversial and often derided for being a shameless cash-grab) boxing match between the Connor [=McGregor=] (a white, Irish MMA fighter who never fought boxing before Connor Mcgregor as a boxer) and the undisputed, undefeated boxing champion Floyd Mayweather. Like the movie, the fight itself ended up anti-climatically dominated by the Black boxing champ (though he champ. (Although Mayweather, being a fighter with a defensive and cautious style, won by points, not K.O).
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Mitchel and his report crew exposing the corruption of the politics that goes on in The Sultan's organization would no doubt make a more interesting ''Mockumentary'' film than the movie trying to cash in as a deconstructive parody of Rocky.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Mitchel and his report crew exposing the corruption of the politics that goes on in The Sultan's organization would no doubt make a more interesting ''Mockumentary'' film than the movie trying to cash in as a deconstructive parody of Rocky.Rocky.
* HilariousInHindsight: The film got a [[http://www.stlamerican.com/sports/sports_columnists/sports_eye/the-great-white-hype-will-become-racial-reality-this-summer/article_ff7abede-56d0-11e7-be83-7ffd401bbad6.html brief resurgence]] during the racially-charged (but controversial and often derided for being a shameless cash-grab) boxing match between the white, Irish MMA fighter who never fought boxing before Connor Mcgregor and the undisputed, undefeated boxing champion Floyd Mayweather. Like the movie, the fight itself ended up anti-climatically dominated by the Black boxing champ (though he won by points, not K.O).
* HilariousInHindsight: The film got a [[http://www.stlamerican.com/sports/sports_columnists/sports_eye/the-great-white-hype-will-become-racial-reality-this-summer/article_ff7abede-56d0-11e7-be83-7ffd401bbad6.html brief resurgence]] during the racially-charged (but controversial and often derided for being a shameless cash-grab) boxing match between the white, Irish MMA fighter who never fought boxing before Connor Mcgregor and the undisputed, undefeated boxing champion Floyd Mayweather. Like the movie, the fight itself ended up anti-climatically dominated by the Black boxing champ (though he won by points, not K.O).
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Mitchel and his report crew exposing the corruption of the politics that goes on in The Sultan's organization would no doubt make a more interesting ''Mockumentary'' film than the movie trying to cash in as a deconstructive parody of Rocky.
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