We have to hand it to Zach Morris as we didn’t think that he would ever play a believable athlete.  Actually he did so well, that it took an episode to realize that Mark-Paul Gosselaar was in fact Mike Lawson!

Every boxing film needs a villain and that is exactly what we got in Miguel “Magic” Escobar, a Hispanic thug who tried to bait Billy “The Great” Hope into to defending his Light Heavyweight Title against him.  He managed to eventually win the title but you don’t have to have watched the film to know whom he would defend that title against do you?

Leo “The Lion” Sporino was the son of Pete Sporino, a boxer who hoped that Rocky Balboa’s eventual trainer, Mickey Goldmill would take an interest in.  Leo would become ranked #4 in the word and would take on Apollo Creed’s progeny in a losing effort, but this is one of the better non-featured boxers in the Rocky franchise.

While we can’t say we really understand the sport of Blernsball, we learn in Futurama that it is a top sport in the 31st Century and that our favorite mauve haired Cyclops would become the first woman in the sport.