In an early scene in the official trailer for boxer Christy Martin’s biopic Christy , the boxing promoter Don King (Chad L. Coleman) is fascinated by Martin, portrayed with a particular awards season buzz by Sydney Sweeney . When they meet, she’s on track to become a world champion, one of the greatest to ever step into a ring and someone who could chance the face of boxing forever. But instead of talking about that, he tells her, “Jessie here says you fight in all pink.”

Walking, working, and fighting in Martin’s shoes finds Sweeney stepping into a world of intense public success, but also rampant misogyny and domestic violence at the hands of her trainer-turned-husband Jim Martin (Ben Foster). “You leave me, I’ll kill you,” he tells her in one scene. When she calls her mother and fa

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