The musical adaptation followed the plot of the 1976 Academy Award-winning film, focusing on a small-time boxer, Rocky Balboa, who gets a rare opportunity to fight the heavyweight champion Apollo Creed.
Fat City, an adaptation of Leonard Gardner's novel about small-time boxers, significantly reversed Huston's fortunes as a director and was one of 1972's most-acclaimed motion pictures.
Minna is a small-time Brooklyn gangster.
It was taken in a small dark boxer's gym in King's Cross.
His father worked an assortment of jobs, including preacher and small-time professional boxer.
In 1927, Ernest Hemingway published a frightening story about a former boxer and small-time gangster, the Swede, who lies in bed in a New Jersey rooming house, too disgusted to defend himself against men coming to kill him.
By David Denby In 1927, Ernest Hemingway published a frightening story about a former boxer and small-time gangster, the Swede, who lies in bed in a New Jersey rooming house, too disgusted to defend himself against men coming to kill him.
He imitated a small boy in a boxer's pose, and laughed.
In 1985, he had a small role as the boxer Buster in the movie, "The Color Purple".
A small pair of yellow boxer shorts suddenly appeared on the digital hunk staring back at him from his device.
Shanks also suggested Aleks Paunovic, actor and part-time boxer, for the part as the diacon Duke; being a boxer fit into the character's violent nature.
