Bleed for This : The truth is good enough…. why are boxing movies so inaccurate?

The truth is good enough…. why are boxing movies so inaccurate?

Forget the fights themselves, I mean the story and the characters. Boxing movies are always complete *beep* even when based on a true story.

Vinny Paz fought 6 times in 2 years after his accident before he got the Duran fight. They seriously couldn't tell this story without making it like the Duran fight was his comeback and he couldn't get any fight? Wtf how is the writing always so lazy and tacky for these boxing movies. They at least could've had it where he couldn't get a big fight or a name opponent in his comeback and he's fighting all these guys trying to get back to the top.... but no, erase all that and Paz vs Duran is the comeback fight and we'll base the climax on that. Weak.

I said it when I first seen the trailer to this movie, Paz never won a world title after the accident and outside of wins over a past his prime Duran and Dana Rosenblatt his comeback was OK but he lost to every top fighter he faced and got absolutely destroyed and embarrassed by Roy Jones Jr for the title and towards the end of his career he lost a decision to Eric Lucas for the WBC 168lb title. There was no big climax to base the film around, no big win except Duran or Rosenblatt. I hope they made the Rosenblatt fight the climax. It was a great fight that only lasted 4 rounds. Rosenblatt and Paz had a heated rivalry and we're both from Rhode Island. Rosenblatt was an undefeated power puncher who was big for the division and Paz was small for the division. It would've worked so much better, they could've had Rosenblatt in the movie before the injury and showed how much they disliked each other her ect but that would've actually been good but would've took some creative effort which whoever wrote this movie was seriously lacking.

Vinny Paz's life was like a movie and yet they still couldn't do him any justice.
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