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Boxing is no stranger to cinema, with films like Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull to Barry Jenkins’ and Rachel Morrison’s The Fire Inside.

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Find a list of actors who have starred as real-life and fictional boxers — from Hilary Swank’s Maggie Fitzgerald to Denzel Washington’s Rubin “The Hurricane” Carter — below.

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