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Dawg Fight (2015) is a English movie. Billy Corben has directed this movie. Alex Caceres,Dhafir Harris,Cedric James are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2015. Dawg Fight (2015) is considered one of the best Documentary movie in India and around the world.
West Perrine, Florida is a suburban ghetto in Southwest Miami-Dade County. Over 73% of its residents are African-American and more than a third of them are unemployed. Violent crimes occur on a daily basis in this neighborhood of less than two square miles, where much of its adult male population winds up dead or in prison before their 30th birthday. But there is hope in the hood... Dhafir "Dada 5000" Harris (6'3", 270lbs., bench presses 670lbs) grew up blocks away from Perrine's MMA sensation, Kimbo Slice, and spent a year traveling the world as Kimbo's bodyguard. When Kimbo's manager buried video of Dada's spectacular backyard fight debut, for fear of Dada overshadowing his rising superstar, Dada leaves Kimbo's crew and makes a life-changing decision: Dada builds a ring in his momma's backyard and transforms himself into the Don King of illegal backyard fights in Perrine. No doctors, no ambulance. Just two men in a 12'x12' ring battling in a savage bare-knuckle fight to the finish. ...
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Dawg Fight (2015) Reviews
Sad, depressing and yet powerful
From the director of Cocaine Cowboys, comes a documentary about backyard "dawg" fights. Basically in the poor areas of Miami, where most people can't find work, gang violence surrounds the areas, and for one day (a week or month), there are these bare knuckle fights. Some fights are straight boxing while others are MMA style. The documentary follows Da-da who use to roll with Kimbo Slice (who if you don't know is the most famous bareknuckle back yard brawler who made it from underground videos to the UFC, Strikeforce, Bellator etc...), and his quest to get to the main street stage. He pays the fighters that win between $25 - $100 for a fight (which is more money that most of the fighters would see in a month's work - as some of them were ex-cons etc...) where someone will get knocked out, lose a tooth, or even break some bones. It's brutal and raw... it's also a sad reality that most people won't face. It's a harsh film, where there isn't really an answer. It's just a depiction of what happens when you don't have any hope left. This is in contrast to the darker elements of cockfighting and dog fighting where people have a choice to fight or not.
Complete bullcrap
This Dada dude is only promoting himself. He's (badly) trying to sell us on the idea, that he is some kind of philanthropist, helping the people in his poor community; but he is simply using and abusing said community to further his illegal backyard cockfights -relentlessly Inciting already hurt fighters to keep on. One of the most laughable statements is, that he is making no money off of it. Yeah, right. I can't believe Netflix is carrying this disgrace. MMA came a long way, but this is a throwback to the stone age. Formally amateurish and with regards to content despicable. No wonder Kimbo cut him off.
Review on fight camera work only
I'm gonna make this short and sweet. Learn how to film a fight. And since I need 5 lines apparently: Learn how to edit said camera work so you don't have so many jump cuts that I'm nauseous and don't have any idea about what's going on in the fight. Watch how professionals film boxing and you'll see how you should have done it. Perhaps you were going for creating the chaos of the fight. Only thing you created was something I couldn't watch.
eye opening
this was a really powerful look at Dhafir Harris showing concerns for his local pines Florida community while at the same time showing people who need to improve. a few fighters did emerge from this backyard league by displaying true stand up and ground fight skills later going on to become professional mma fighters. men such as Dada 5000 and Bruce Leroy. several of these lower skill people were honest about why they were fighting to begin with it was for the possible local fame and little money. Dhafir Harris did come off as a great promoter and motivator at times even offering encouraging words as a referee to guys that seemed to want to stop a fight after taking early offensive punishment. the story of Dada 5000 and kimbo slice is told here in great yet one sided detail. while Harris mma fight played at the end of this vs Cedric James was exciting yet sloppy stand up punches it did prove that Dada 5000 has to develop his striking beyond wild swinging punches to the face and head. on a few final notes i was impressed with his physical power as well Harris can bench press over 650lbs which is Tank Abbott level strength. it was sad and even frustrating watching "Chauncy" seem to take his matches much less serious then others and usually come out as the loser. even the promoter commented on how he would like to see Chauncy take things more serious and have more training