Bettmann ArchiveFight movies tend toward the gritty, and as it turns out the farther back in time you go the grittier, sadder, and darker it gets. So come along for some fun facts about five boxing pictures featuring bare knuckle brutality, corruption, exploitation, and brain damage.
1.) Hard Times (1975) - The classic Charles Bronson film about a bare knuckle boxer making his way through Depression-era New Orleans was originally over two hours. When it was cut down to 90 minutes pretty much everything on the cutting room floor was a fight scene. Even with all those fight sequences lost, Hard Times delivers a lot of action. The pivotal fight scene, shot in a warehouse off Tchoupitoulas…
