I was fortunate enough that I could buy my children a hot lunch. 'While Coppola's intentions were honorable, I think he made a bad situation worse. 'One, it was embarrassing and, two, it made me think about quitting,' said Hill. Hill had just come off the science fiction film Supernova on which he had been recut by Francis Ford Coppola among others. The film was based on an original script by Walter Hill and David Giler. Johnathan Wesley Wallace as Antoine Bonet.Michael Bailey Smith as Willard Bechtel.Fisher Stevens as James 'Ratbag' Kroycek.Ving Rhames as George 'The Iceman' Chambers.Wesley Snipes as Monroe 'Undisputed' Hutchen.The whole cell block watches the televised fight, and laugh and cheer Monroe's name after hearing Chambers being crowned the 'undisputed' heavyweight champion of the world. Months later, Chambers wins back the Heavyweight Championship of the World. It is also revealed that Chambers and his manager denied that the fight with Hutchen ever occurred, and that it was all a rumor. Chambers was released on parole, and Hutchens received the money for his sister, who was experiencing hardship on the outside. Ripstein's Mexican assistant reveals, in a narrator voice, that Ripstein died three weeks after the fight, but in his will, he left him $2 million.

Finally, in the fourth round Hutchen officially KO's Chambers to become the undisputed champion. Chambers knocks down Hutchen twice (and with the London Prize Ring Rules, each knockdown counts as the end of a round, as the boxer is given only 60 seconds to get up.) In the third round, Hutchens charges back and knocks Chambers down for the first time in his career, sending the crowd of prisoners into a frenzy. Ripstein, a lifelong boxing fan, proposes a match and Warden Lipscomb is persuaded to look the other way.Īs all the arrangements are finally organized, an eagerly awaited fight night arrives. Sensing the brewing hatred for the heavyweight champion, an incarcerated mob boss named Mendy Ripstein senses potential in a match between the modest Hutchen and the egomaniacal Chambers. Flashbacks to Hutchen's own boxing career shows that he had been sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for beating to death a man who was sleeping with his girlfriend. The most popular boxer behind bars is Sweetwater's undefeated Monroe 'Undisputed' Hutchen, who ends up in solitary confinement after Chambers picks a fight with him in the mess hall. Criminals fight in boxing matches with very lax rules, thus making it a very addictive and lucrative venture for the syndicate. The prison camp, within its own walls, has a riveting competition on which a betting syndicate thrives. Unaware of the prison's ways and its unique hierarchy, the pompous and bratty Chambers tries to impress upon the inmates his status as a champion boxer. The high-security facility is populated by hardened criminals. Heavyweight boxing champion George 'The Iceman' Chambers is convicted of rape and sentenced to Sweetwater, a new prison in the desert.

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