The Fire Inside (2025)

This is a biopic or dacudrama about Claressa “T-Rex” Shields, who is an American professional boxer and mixed martial artist from Flint, Michigan who is widely regarded as one of the greatest female boxers ever. She was born in 1995 and became a double Olympic gold medallist (2012 and 2016), the first time when she was just 17 years old and coached by a man who basically volunteered his time to teach her to box. She is the first boxer, male or female, to hold all four major world titles across two weight classes simultaneously. The movie does a nice job of telling all of her story, which is a severely impoversihed childhood, an unstable living situation and a coach who changed her life, maybe even saved it. The story of her rise to success is told in the way of all great sports sotries, where you basically know the outcome but still enjoy watching it unfold. The back end of the movie is what happens after she wins, which is nothing at all. She is expecting to be showered with riches and she is all but ignored. The reality of life after the Olympics is equally well told.