For anyone that likes movies about real people and their triumphs over adversity. Or likes to root for the USA in competition. This one was decent, sad, and gritty (and true to the vocabulary words/patterns of the poor that is usually re-written in most movies) :
The Fire Inside
Claressa Shields
Female boxer. Movie is about her poverty and upbringing in Flint Michigan - some pretty rough childhood issues to overcome.
The story is about her rise to become the first USA and youngest female boxer to win a
Gold medal at the Olympics (2012). And then to become the only USA boxer, male or female, to
win back-to-back Golds (2016).
Got equal pay for female Olympic Athletes.
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Not in the movie of course:
Undefeated Record: 16-0 (Amateur record 77-1 avenged the loss in the pros)
Nickname: T-Rex (has short arms) and recently GWOAT (Greatest Woman Of All Time)
Gold Medals in all competitions: 15
Last weekend (FEB 2, 2025), she fought with a torn labrum and unable to lift her left arm for 2 days prior thru the fight and still won.
"With the win, she became the first boxer, male or female, in the four-belt era to become the
undisputed champion in
three different weight classes (junior middle, middle and heavyweight).
The 4-belt era means the 4 major world titles in boxing - the
WBC, WBA, IBF and WBO titles.
Shields, 29, is ESPN's No. 1-ranked heavyweight and No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter"
2015 - USA Boxing Female of the Year
2018 - inducted into the USA Boxing Alumni Association's Hall of Fame
2020 - Started an MMA career - record 2-1
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Impressive career to look up and not look 'back' in history as she's making history currently.