So some blue-collar,everyday Joe goes toe-to-toe with the loud-mouth athlete doesn't sound like wish fulfillment to 90% of white america?
sounds like the wish fulfillment of any boxer who sucked and could not make pro.
but i guess other minorities don't have that dream as well.
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it appears you never watched the first one at all he was not a blue collar every day joe he was a former boxer turned leg breaker for a gangster.