Meg Ryan does a respectable job in portraying Jackie Kallen, a dynamo who pushed her way into a sport dominated by men.

However satisfactory Ryan is as Kallen, the script is missing the griminess and edginess the underworld of boxing engulfs.

What the audience ends up with is a watered down whitewash of Kallen’s life story.

So because of Meg Ryan’s performance and some better than average direction by Charles S. Dutton (who laso co-stars) - I gave the film an above average 2 stars.

It’s rated PG-13 for crude language, violence, brief sensuality and drug material.