The Contender

Interesting Stuff, Another Mark Burnett's Production

Well, I know nuts about boxing; except that I have taken up kickboxing classes before. Does that count?

The only boxing action I watched was of Hilary Swank, Clint Eastwood & Morgan Freeman in Million Dollar Baby. But I guess you can't really qualify that as a movie about boxing, it's more humane & it really touches your heart during the last hour of the show where Maggie (played by Swank) seeked help from Frankie (played by Eastwood) to end her life, which Frankie did; finally. I cried.

Well, The Contender is a different story. These 16 guys really fight for their chance to win the million-dollar prize & maybe a championship match at Vegas, where they would be crowned as middle-weight champ.

It's real & with the usual elements of any Mark Burnett created reality show, alliances/challenges/voting/rewards. I never knew I would be glued to my tv set, waiting for the guys to face-off during the 5 rounds of boxing & secretly cheering on a few of them. Certainly, now with only 4 of them remaining (Peter, Alfronso, Sergio & Jesse). It's gonna be do-or-die, no more friendship, alliances. Those things can't compare with the million-dollar prize & the title of The Contender.

Ok, keep watching & visit www.nbc.com if you wanna more updates/info.