Right to Fight
- Director: Georgina Cammalleri
- Producer: Cassandra Hamar Thornton, Tim Wardle
CGiii Comment
The extraordinary untold story of how a pioneering group of American women, from very different walks of life, fought to break into the most macho sport of all: boxing.
In their day, Marian 'Lady Tyger' Trimiar, Cathy 'Cat' Davis and 'Pretty' Pat Pineda were famous, earning headlines as they battled against sexist 1970s society for the right to fight. But today, they live anonymously, and in many cases, in poverty - their groundbreaking contributions to sport ignored by the men who've written boxing history.
RIGHT TO FIGHT uncovers the hidden origins of women's boxing, and the remarkable story of the pioneering women who put their lives of the line to earn the right to fight each other in the ring. This is an inspirational story, but it is not a hagiography - the narrative takes dark and surprising twists and turns as the women's stories unfold in unexpected ways.
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Cast & Characters
Cathy Davis (as Self (as Cathy 'Cat' Davis))
Marian Trimiar (as Self (as Marian 'Lady Tyger' Trimiar))
Mike Silver (as Self - Boxing Journalist)
Sue Fox (as Self - Boxing Historian (as Sue 'Tiger Lilly' Fox))
Pat Pineda (as Self (as Pat 'Liberation' Pineda))
Diane Coram (as Self (as Diane 'Killer Diane' Coram))
Lydia Bayardo (as Self (as Lydia 'Squeaky' Bayardo))
Lavonne Ludian (as Self (as Lavonne 'Snow White' Ludian))
Robin Suttenberg (as Self - Attorney)
Beverly Keith (as Self - Former Women's Studies Professor)
Randy Tidwell (as Self - Boxing Trainer)
Sal Algieri (as Self - Boxing Manager (archiveFootage))
Laila Ali (as Self - Boxer (archiveFootage))
Muhammad Ali (as Self - Boxer (archiveFootage))
Bob Arum (as Self - Boxing Promoter (archiveFootage))
Teddy Brenner (as Self - Boxing Promoter, Madison Square Garden (archiveFootage))
Csaba Elthes (as Self - Fencing Maestro (archiveFootage))
Joe Frazier (as Self - Boxer (archiveFootage))
Ernestine Jones (as Self - Boxer (archiveFootage))
Don King (as Self - Boxing Promoter (archiveFootage))
Dee Knuckles (as Self - Boxing Manager (archiveFootage))
Kim Maybee (as Self - Boxer (archiveFootage))
Bill McCreary (as Self - News Anchor (archiveFootage))
Floyd Patterson (as Self - New York State Athletic Commissioner (archiveFootage))
John M. Prenderville (as Self - Chairman, New York State Athletic Commission (archiveFootage))