I was really hoping this would be a good movie...

I really like boxing movies, so when I read the summary and saw the cast I thought this was probably going to be a pretty good flick...I watched the whole movie, but never really got into it.

The boxing lead didn't come off as a very good actor and I had a lot of trouble buying Shannen Doherty as the love interest he spent so long pining away for. I'm sure they are close in actual age, but Doherty looks like she's in her mid 50's in this movie and she's not in very good shape, which made the flashbacks to when they were supposed to be younger look pretty silly.

I think the screenplay itself was probably fine, this movie just needed a slightly different cast along with better directing...