Ivan Drago ile yaptığı maçtan galibiyetle çıkan Rocky, Amerika’ya döndüğünde bir kahraman gibi karşılanır. Ancak Ivan Drago ile geçirdiği ağır maçın beyninde kalıcı bir hasar bıraktığı ve bundan sonra dövüşemeyeceğini öğrenir. Ayrıca dolandırıcı muhasebecisi yüzünden bütün servetini de kaybeden Rocky eski mahallesine geri döner ve Mickey'nin eski spor salonunu çalıştırmaya başlar. Çalıştırdığı genç boksörlerden Tommy Gunn’da ki cevheri gören Rocky onu kanatları altına alır. Ancak zamanla şöhret kazanan Tommy, Rocky’i yarı yolda bırakır ve yeni bir menajerle yoluna devam eder. Tommy, Dünya Ağır Sıklet unvanını kazanmış olsa da Rocky ile kıyaslanmaktan kurtulamaz. Eleştirilerden kurtulmak için Tommy, Rocky’e meydan okur.
Ortasiklet boks şampiyonluğunun eşiğine kadar gelen Boksör Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (Denzel Washington) yanında bir arkadaşıyla birlikte New Jersey' de bir barda otururken işlenen bir cinayet sonucu üç kişi hayatını kaybeder. Cinayet olayından sorumlu tutulan Carter yanındaki arkadaşı ile tutuklanır ve yapılan yargılama sonucunda suçlu bulunarak üç kere ömür boyu hapis cezasına çarptırılır.
Slacker Ichiko gets into a fight with her younger sister and begins to live on her own, working the late shift at a 100 yen shop. On her way home, she passes a gym and meets middle-aged boxer Kano who trains there in silence...
In County Durham, England, 1984, a talented young dancer, Billy Elliot, stumbles out of the boxing ring and onto the ballet floor. He faces many trials and triumphs as he strives to conquer his family’s set ways, inner conflict, and standing on his toes in a musical that questions masculinity, gender norms and conformity.
A young man eagerly prepares for triumph as a boxer in a neighborhood gym with the firm intention of escaping poverty to marry his girlfriend, who sings in a nightclub.
Thomas, in his forties, holds an important post in a slaughterhouse. He is engaged to Marie-Rose, the daughter of the director, whom he hopes to follow later. In a routine examination in the hospital, however, he finds out that he has cancer and his days are counted. The upheaval that he suffers as a result, however, does not take long, his decision is certain: he will use the short time to clean up some bad guys. What else can he do now?
A drama based around a boxing school owner and his son.
This intimate portrait of a Thai boxer, from New York-based filmmaker Josh Hayward, reveals the rituals and pressures experienced in Bangkok's boxing culture—an environment of grueling physical and psychological tension.
Boxeo Constitución shows how, of all places, in a damp, dark boxing hall under the tracks of a train station, young people brace themselves against the social Darwinism of the social crisis. The film follows two teenage boxers from the forgotten suburbs of Buenos Aires on their way to their debut bout. It will be decided in the ring whether they can continue to hope that one day they will leave the lack of prospects in their neighborhood behind in order to "be someone". Youthful enthusiasm meets harsh reality when some of her colleagues form a boxing union.
Agressivity and the will to compete are also part of childhood. At a poor district’s boxing club the kids live a close friendship and find a place to express a fury that is violent but liberating.