Envisioning an #OscarsSoRight Moment

How Sylvester Stallone could follow in the footsteps of Ving Rhames.

OnlyinAmericaPosterAt the 1998 Golden Globes, a clip shown for HBO’s Don King: Only in America featured Ving Rhames as the colorful boxing promoter saying the following:

“March 8, 1971… Ali, Frazier… My new birthday. That’s when it hit me. Don’t know why some things hit you at one time and not the other, but they do. And then wham, bam… I had what I like to call an epiphanistic experience of pure religiosity.”

“You see, you had all these young black fighters getting their heads beat in for a bunch of rich white promoters.

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