Ving Rhames Throws Phantom Punch

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=38904

Source: The Hollywood Reporter
October 30, 2007


Ving Rhames will portray the infamous heavyweight fighter Sonny Liston in the biopic Phantom Punch, which Robert Townsend will direct, says The Hollywood Reporter.

Ryan Combs wrote the script. Hassain Zaidi and Marek Posival are producing the independently-financed film, which began production Monday in Toronto and is scheduled to finish in early December.

"Phantom" will chronicle Liston's rise to fame as a boxer and the single "phantom punch" he took at the hands of Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) that many believe led to the demise of his career.

My Dad has told me a lot about Liston, this is a fascinating story about a fighter most were to scared to face but who wasn't commercially viable and the mob that controlled him. I hope they include the stuff about entire squads of police struggling to arrest him.

 

[Dark Donnie]

The Liston story is a very interesting one....took part in arguably the most controversial boxing event of all-time. This coudl be really good.

They definately look alike.