Easiest way to find out
Bill Simmons’ review of Rocky Balboa — whose five predecessors, like most James Bond movies, I have never seen — includes this paragraph:
The plot hinges on a simulated boxing match on ESPN between Rocky and current champ Mason “The Line” Dixon (played half-decently by Antonio Tarver). When Rocky “wins” the match, the ensuing hullabaloo leads Dixon’s promoters to think, “Wow, if people care about the computer fight, why don’t we get them in the ring?” I’d be fine with this angle except for one little problem: Who the heck would watch a simulated boxing match?
I would! I have!
I suspect that my roommates and I are not the only owners of “Fight Night Round 2” to have watched a computer-simulated match between two characters modeled after our real selves. We can’t be the only people to have investigated who would win in a fight between George Bush and John Kerry (Kerry has superior reach but Bush is a stubborn bastard who never goes down when he’s been beaten).
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