No explanation as to why or who the opponent is. Not the dude who ended up getting his wife shot, but some random dude. So he falls into depression and drugs (obviously) but still goes on to fight.

Lead goes out to seek revenge, and we have a pointless cameo for Rita Ora, who plays a drug-addled whore for all of 15 seconds. Turns out it was the Colombian's brother (with the most Colombian name ever - Hector Escobar). So she gets shot in the hip, literally the hip. Who was absolutely nowhere near the brawl on the other side of the room. Anyway, he goes down the Mayorga route, insulting everything from his wife to his legitimacy, leaving our hero 'southpaw' fighter to start brawling. Is he trying to be a mix between Shannon Briggs and Ricardo Mayorga? Whatever. So he goes to this charity event, and the Colombian dude is there. Probably the only sound advice in this entire film, as his face is a magnet for fists. Huge ass mansion, with Mayweather money, letting his friends play pool for expensive as fuck watches. He gets heckled by some Colombian dude at his post-fight interview.įast forward to his home life. His promoter is 50 cent, (probably portraying himself) a scumbag promoter who doesn't want the best for his fighter and just wants money. (I thought maybe licencing had something to do with this, but up pops the WBC belt later). He's mentioned as the WBC, WBA, IBF and WBO belt holder, yet the only one on show at this point is the IBF.

The addition of Tony Weeks, Jim Lampley and Roy Jones tries to make this a little better, but it's then ruined by the fight night style noises that every boxing film seems to have, making it appear more Rocky than anything else. Already noticing a shitload of faults here. He's portrayed to be like a Gatti and Provodnikov hybrid, who eats punches for fun, gets the shit beat out of him with absolutely no defence - and then pulls out a Hail Mary win. So Gyllenhaal starts out as the Billy Hope, undisputed world champion, announced as IBF, WBA, WBC and WBO world champion, yet only the IBF title is shown in the ring with him. So you've been warned about the spoilers, I'm gonna go into the plot fuck ups.

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