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Dennis Quaid's lead central character, the singer tough-man fighter Art Long, had the same first name as Art Dore, the man who founded the real life Toughman Contest.
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The real life "Toughman Contest" was, according to Wikipedia, "founded in 1979 in Bay City, Michigan by boxing promoter Art Dore, [which] is a chance for the novice amateur fighters (those with no more than 5 sanctioned wins in the past 5 years) to test themselves in the ring".
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The name of the boxing contest was "The Toughman Contest" or "The Toughman Competition". It represented a real life version which had been established about three years earlier in 1979.
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The nickname of boxer Paul Thomas Coolidge (Stan Shaw) was "P.T" whilst the nick-name / stage-name of boxer Art Long (Dennis Quaid) was "The Country Western Warrior".
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This movie, the last film of actor Warren Oates was actually filmed before Oates' penultimate picture, Blue Thunder (1983), but was first released stateside about a week after that movie.
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Director Richard Fleischer replaced John Leone when the president of American Cinema Productions, Andy Pfeffer, did not like the coverage he was getting. Warren Oates sided with Leone saying "John is brilliant. He established a good rapport with all of us and then they zapped him."
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Dennis Quaid had himself in real life been an amateur boxer for eight years.
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The value of the prize-winning stakes for the local fight was US $5,000 whilst the amount for the big bout was US $100,000.
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The film's closing credits declare that: "The Producer gratefully acknowledges the invaluable assistance of Art Dore and Joe Goldring of Ardore, Ltd., the originators of the actual Toughman contests".
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Actress Carlene Watkins played a character, Caroline Long, who had a similar first name to her own.
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Dennis Quaid sings in this movie as he had done in the then recent picture The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia (1981) about two years earlier.
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Dennis Quaid broke his nose during the making of this film, as he had done three years previously on The Long Riders (1980).
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Star Dennis Quaid once said of this film: "The movie is about courage. Not the kind of courage it takes to get in the ring with some gorilla, but the kind that stems from a belief in yourself".
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This was Carlene Watkins's only film.
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Publicity for this picture in slogans memorably boasted that the movie was "Rocky (1976) Without Rules!".
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Final feature film of actor Warren Oates. The picture was released posthumously.
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Unusually, director Richard Fleischer was billed as "Richard O. Fleischer", the first time since his earlier career.
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Some movie posters for this film upon release declared that this picture was (at least at the time) "the movie that got the highest audience preview ratings in 20th Century-Fox History".
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