Reminds me of movies I saw as a kid about "working class" boxers who made it to the big time and then fell back to their old ways of drinking and stumbling through life, after their boxing careers were over. From Netflix: In this film, Mickey Rourke (in a Golden Globe-winning, Oscar-nominated role) stars as retired professional wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson, who returns to the ring to work his way up the circuit for a final shot at defeating his longtime rival. Along the way, he tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter (Evan Rachel Wood) while exploring a relationship with an aging stripper named Cassidy (Marisa Tomei, who also earned Golden Globe and Oscar nods.
The moral to all these down and outer stories (including "I could'a been a contender") is that the payoff is big time if you are lucky enough to have good genes, good parents and a good education.
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