Robert DeNiro as "Jake La Motta" in Raging Bull (1980)
Daniel Day-Lewis as "Danny Flynn" in The Boxer (1997)
Will Smith as "Muhammad Ali" in Ali (2001)
James Earl Jones as "Jack Jefferson" in The Great White Hope (1970)
Hilary Swank as "Maggie Fitzgerald" in Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Michelle Rodriguez as "Diana Guzman" in Girlfight (2000)
Denzel Washington as "Rubin Carter" in The Hurricane (1999)
Paul Newman as "Rocky Graziano" in Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
Sylvester Stallone as "Rocky Balboa" in Rocky (1976)
Russell Crowe as "James J. Braddock" in Cinderella Man (2005)
Jon Voight as "Billy Flynn' in The Champ (1979)
Kirk Douglas as "Michael Kelly" in Champion (1949)
Louis Gossett, Jr. as "Roy Palmer" in Diggstown (1992)
Damon Wayans as "James Roper" in The Great White Hype (1996)
Jon Favreau as "Rocky Marciano" in Rocky Marciano (1999)
Errol Flynn as "James J. Corbett" in Gentleman Jim (1942)
