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Real Steel is a 2011 American science fiction sports film starring Hugh Jackman and Dakota Goyo and co-produced and directed by Shawn Levy for DreamWorks Pictures.The film is based on the short story "Steel", written by Richard Matheson, which was originally published in the May 1956 edition of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and later adapted into a 1963 Twilight Zone episode.
"Steel" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. Set in the near future, its premise is that human professional boxing has been banned and replaced by android boxing. The story follows a once-famous human boxer who works as a manager for an antiquated android while struggling to come to grips with his career ...
Richard Steele (born January 26, 1944) is an American retired boxing referee who was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. [1]A former member of the United States Marine Corps, Steele was a teammate of future world Heavyweight champion Ken Norton in the Marines. [2]
Real Steel – a science fiction sports drama film, starring Hugh Jackman, where in the year 2020 human boxers have been replaced by robot boxers Robot Jox – a science fiction sports drama film about giant mechanical machines, that fight international battles in a dystopian post-apocalyptic world, piloted by "Robot Jockeys " who represent ...
Real Steel: 2011 Science fiction Boxing robots, starring Hugh Jackman. Klitschko: 2011 Documentary Lives of Ukraine brothers who both became world heavyweight champions. 26 Years: The Dewey Bozella Story: 2012 Documentary Made for TV as a follow-up to ESPN's 30 for 30 series. Profiles Dewey Bozella, who found purpose in boxing while imprisoned ...
Pages in category "American boxing films" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 243 total. ... Real Steel; The Referee (1922 film ...
Anthony Florian Zaleski (May 29, 1913 – March 20, 1997), known professionally as Tony Zale, was an American boxer. [2] Zale was born and raised in Gary, Indiana, a steel town, which gave him his nickname, "Man of Steel", [3] reinforced by his reputation of being able to take fearsome punishment and still rally to win.
At various points he served as president of the Mississippi Sports Writers Association and Boxing Writers Association of America, and he made appearances in three boxing-themed movies: 2016’s “Rocky Balboa,” in which he had a speaking role and played himself, as well as 1999’s “Play It to the Bone” and 2011’s “Real Steel.”