In today's age of boxing where most of the fighting is done between the lawyers and managers, a fighter steps out from the past; his past. 

SYNOPSIS:

Integrity set in the boxing world? Not as farfetched as you might think. Not if you remember old boxing melodramas about good natured palookas and their slimy opponents. In my movie, "LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLE!", the palookas are good natured, the opponents are slimy, but the time is now. In today's age of boxing where most of the fighting is done between the lawyers and managers, a man steps out from the past. His past.

Years ago, undefeated middleweight Johnny Valko realized he not only had to fight the opponents he met in the ring, but also the outside powers that be. Unwilling to play their games and take a dive, Valko lashes out and is exiled to the backroom fights of the underground in New York City.

On the other side of the coin is Bruce Johnson, a clean cut young man with all the right backing. Fast rising, due to handpicked opponents, Bruce alienates the people around him. Like many of today's fighters, he starts to believe his own press clippings and loses his perspective in a world of fame, fast cars, and women. Easily manipulated by an unscrupulous Don King-esque promoter who has designs on the young fighter, Bruce is wrested away from his trainer, Carmen Grazi.

Inevitably, the lives of the two fighters meet, mix, tangle, then explodes into a cold eyed appraisal of the scum infested boxing world.

As a world rated fighter for 11 years in the 80s and 90s, I've been in boxing and kickboxing gyms around the world for more than three decades and have trained with and fought the best. Using the people and things I've seen and dealt with in the fight game helped make this movie a realistic, street level view of the sleazy world of boxing. It shows the pathetic, vulnerable, and violent characteristics in the lives and lifestyles of fighters and their handlers.

This movie is a personality clash of the two men. One who cannot deal with either acclaim nor responsibility and is easily manipulated by promoters and opportunists. The other captures the true spirit of a fighter; the individualist. The rebel.

LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLE