There are of course many, many other great boxing movies to behold: Cinderella Man (2005), The Hurricane (1999), The Boxer (1997).
Rocky wasn’t the only boxing movie to earn a place among the sports genre’s greats to be released in the 1970s.
But perhaps most of all, the movies that have gone down as cinema classics tend to focus on the underdog.
It’s also a 1975 boxing movie set during the Great Depression, starring Charles Bronson, just a year after Death Wish.
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