The Prize Fighter - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of The Prize Fighter or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to The Prize Fighter

[morris]

The Prize Fighter (1979) national publicist C. W. Henderson received a top public relations industry award for placing over 100 newspaper and magazine articles about a single scene in this feature film; he placed more than 150 stories in the nation's newspapers and magazines about the filming of a segment of the movie that depicts a world championship boxing match, according to The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution of July 4, 1979; The Prize Fighter was filmed in Georgia.

[morris]

Bags Collins' boxing record before coming out of retirement was 0-20. All of his losses were by KO.

[ella]

The scene in which Don Knotts' character, Shake, cracks five eggs into a glass on top of a refrigerator is a spoof of the egg cracking scene in Rocky. In Rocky (1976), Rocky Balboa cracks five eggs into a glass on top of a refrigerator. During the process, he is constantly sniffing and exhaling. In this scene, Don Knotts also constantly sniffs and exhales, but does so in a very exaggerated and comedic fashion.