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   Is 'Fight Night' based on a true story?

   • Photo: Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist, Peacock’s latest drama, has garnered significant attention for its star-studded cast and gripping narrative. The series, which premiered on Sept. 5, is based on the infamous 1970 armed robbery that took place on the night of Muhammad Ali ’s historic comeback fight.

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   Is Fight Night the million dollar heist based on a true story?

   • Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist is now streaming on Peacock. The series tells the true story of Muhammad Ali’s return to boxing in 1970 and the notorious heist at an after-party gone wrong in Atlanta. Read on to learn about the real-life events that inspired the historical drama.

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   Was Muhammad Ali on 'Fight Night' based on a true story?

   • Dexter Darden as Ali on 'Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist' ; Muhammad Ali gives a press conference in Atlanta on October 26, 1970, before the match with Jerry Quarry. The key events of the show — the lavish afterparty, robbery, investigation and transformation of Atlanta — were heavily influenced by real-life events.

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   What is 'Fight Night' about?

   • What is ‘Fight Night’ about? The scene opens on Atlanta’s best-known bookie, Gordon “Chicken Man” Williams (Kevin Hart), who aspires to make his way up the ranks of the Black Mafia and be part of the Black crime syndicate nationwide. He believes that Muhammad Ali’s highly-touted comeback fight would make the perfect opportunity to do so.

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   Is 'Fight Night' a good show?

   • The series released its first three episodes on September 5 to a very positive critical reception, as indicated by Fight Night's current Rotten Tomatoes score. Bestowing the series with an impressive 93% approval rating, top RT critics generally agree that Fight Night has the right combination of talent and story to entertain.

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   Is Muhammad Ali based on a true story?

   • The series, which premiered on Sept. 5, is based on the infamous 1970 armed robbery that took place on the night of Muhammad Ali ’s historic comeback fight. As the trailer cues viewers in, it proclaims, “Based on some s--- that really happened.”

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   Sep 6, 2024 · On Nov. 18, 1970, three men—McKinley Rogers Jr., James Henry Hall, and Houston J. Hammond—were ultimately indicted on armed robbery charges. While Hammonds was taken into police custody,...

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   Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist is an American crime drama television miniseries created by Shaye Ogbonna, based on the 2020 podcast of the same name fictionalizing an actual armed robbery, at an Atlanta party, [1] on the night of Muhammad Ali 's October 1970 comeback fight, after being stripped of his boxing license in 1967 for being a ...

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   Sep 6, 2024 · By Maya Alexander. Black history meets pure pomp in Peacock’s latest limited series, “Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist,” inspired by a podcast and based on a true story. Peacock is owned...

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   Sep 8, 2024 · Peacock's new crime thriller Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist tells a shocking but true-to-life story of the 1970 heist that occurred in Atlanta on the heels of Muhammad Ali's comeback fight against Jerry Quarry. The series is inspired by iHeart Radio's similarly titled true-crime podcast and dramatized to depict the half-century-old ...

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   Sep 5, 2024 · Peacock’s new original series, which premiered on September 5, is based on iHeart Radio’s true-crime podcast “Fight Night,” created and hosted by Jeff Keating.

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   Sep 5, 2024 · The series, which premiered on Sept. 5, is based on the infamous 1970 armed robbery that took place on the night of Muhammad Ali ’s historic comeback fight. As the trailer cues viewers in, it...

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   Sep 7, 2024 · Peacock's "Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist" follows Muhammad Ali's Atlanta boxing returning and a brazen $1M robbery of gangsters. What's true?