SYNOPSIS

LOGLINE: Documenting the fight week of Canadian prize fighter Hugo Atlas, as he prepares for a championship boxing match in his hometown, which also serves as a crossroads moment in his declining career. A student documentary crew follows 33-year-old Canadian prize fighter, Hugo Atlas, over the course of the fight week of his big comeback fight for the Middleweight Championship of the World. Hugo once held the Middleweight and the Super Middleweight crown, at the youngest age in Middleweight history, at 21, and has since been on something of a downwards spiral. Hugo’s fight record consists of a 20-9 (Win-Loss) record, with all nine of his losses coming in the last eight years, which is a very bad place to be. But, in an effort to break into the Canadian fight/sports market, an American Boxing promotion decides to put on a fight card at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, Canada, with their champion squaring off against the hometown boy, Hugo Atlas. Given where Hugo currently is in his career, the promotion and the world of boxing generally look at this fight as a “tune-up”, something of a warm-up fight for bigger business in America. But for Hugo, this is his way back to the top, back to having grace and class, back into the history books, back to being Champion of the World, and just back to being someone, if not, this is evidently it.

GÉNÉRIQUE

• Director

  Gary Chohan

• Production

  Gary Chohan

• Referent

  Gary Chohan

• Sales

  Gary Chohan