Welcome to MuayThaiArt.com! Are you ready for another great boxing film to watch? Today’s film that I’m going to recommend you today is one of those oldies. You might have heard of this movie before.

For me this movie is really inspiring and it gives the message of “not quitting”. Don’t listen to anyone that says you can’t do something if you believe you really can. It is also a great love story.

The Set-Up is an American black and white boxing drama. The director, Robert Wise, made this in what appear to be real time. The drama features Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter and others.

The film tells about the boxing gangland, the tank-town circuit led by mobsters where up-and-comers get their jaws and has-beens rent themselves out as fresh punching bag.

The Set-Up poster from Wikipedia

Here’s the plot of the movie I got from Wikipedia
Stoker Thompson (Robert Ryan) is a 35-year-old once used-to-be boxer. His promising fighting career has now come to the end. Even his wife is the first one who what him to end this career soon before he gets beaten up to death. Tiny (George Tobias), Stoker’s manager, is sure that if Stoker still keeps fighting, he sure continue losing in every fight. That is when Tiny decides to earn dirty money from a mobster. And sure that Stoker doesn’t know about this evil set-up plan.
At the beginning of the last round of the 4-round vicious bout with much younger and heavily-favored Tiger Nelson (Hal Baylor), Stoker knows about the set-up. However, he refuses to give up the fight and mashes on.
In the end, he defeats Nelson, but Little Boy who is behind all this fix get Stoker’s right hand broken as punishment.

Quite interesting old movie, don’t you think? Don’t forget to check out this film near your house. This one great quality film won’t let you down.