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The Ring (1952)

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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Ring is a 1952 Film Noir Sports Story film directed by Kurt Neumann and based off a novel by Irvin Shulman. Starring Lalo Rios, Rita Moreno and Jack Elam.The movie centers around a Mexican-American youth by the name of Tomas Cantanios (Lalo Rios) who becomes a Boxer after being picked up by a Boxing manager who had an eye for talent after seeing him get into a street fight with a few racists, he gives Tomas a shot in the ring under the name Tommy Kansas to the chagrin of his father and his girlfriend Lucy (Rita Moreno) . Tomas boxes to get his family out of poverty, to prove himself in White America, and more importantly for own self-importance.While it isn't the first Boxing movie to be made, The Ring is the earliest films to explore the struggles of Mexicans and Chicanos living in white society in The '50s.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Not to be confuse with the Boxing movie of the same name The Ring (1927) or the Japanese horror film franchise The Ring.
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 Gay Bar Reveal: The Champion's manager threatens his opponent's manager for his failure in getting his boxer ready for the main event about revealing an ambiguous detail about him going to a bar with another man.
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 Bittersweet Ending: Tomas loses in humiliating fashion in the main card fight that would've made him big, and promises to quit Boxing forever. However he finds a happy ending in his unemployed father finally getting the chance to run a successful business stand with the money he made from Boxing and managing to reconcile with Lucy after coming to blows the entire movie.
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 Hope Spot: After some renewed hope in making something for himself Tomas promises his coaches he will listen to their every direction from then on and trains harder than ever. When it's finally time for his next fight he is suddenly placed as the main card's challenger as a last minute substitute and gets knocked out.
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