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Watched this last night. I thought all the early footage was fascinating - the boxing cats! - and how they related some of the earlier boxing movies to the political climate etc. But this wasn't really followed through with more recent movies. It seemed to be just 'and then they made Million Dollar Baby and The Fighter and they got Oscars', no real attempt to relate this to modern boxing and changing perceptions of the sport. No mention of attempts to ban boxing, or women's boxing becoming an Olympic sport, for example. It was also very Hollywood-orientated. Probably just an excuse for Danny Leigh to go on a jolly to the States, if his sunburn was anything to go by.