In what was the last athletic role of note of his great Fictitious Athlete career, Wesley Snipes donned the gloves as a prison boxing star, who was undefeated in prison boxing. As his legitimate career was derailed by incarceration, Monroe Hutchen (Snipes) never had the chance to test his skills against the best; until we remember that this is a movie and the former Heavyweight Boxing champion of the world lands in the same penitentiary.

Clearly inspired by Mike Tyson’s real life incarceration the decade before; George “Iceman” Chambers (Ving Rhames) plays a bad ass former Heavyweight Boxing Champion who winds up in jail. The normally likable Rhames, turns that switch off and he finds himself in a contest with the prison champion (Wesley Snipes). Although the film was not critically respected, we did like it, though we found Rhames miscast, as he was 43 when the film was out, and looked significantly older. He may have still resembled a bad ass boxer, but one who was at the prime of his career? Not a chance.