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About the Film

Through a documentary lens, this drama follows an underground boxing ring, where participants pay to fight a man who looks like Jesus Christ.

"Manny" is a boxer who for five years has been fighting dressed as Jesus Christ. The promoter behind these fights, Jeri, got the idea after 9/11, dressing earlier fighters as Osama bin Laden and Adolf Hitler. The night of a fight, a few spectators describe the experiences of loss and hardship that drew them to the event, and Manny's challenger is finally introduced.

Rob recently lost his daughter to leukemia before he could give her her dream trip to Paris. Manny and Rob finally meet in the ring, and the fight is intense and brutal until it culminates in an outcome no one could have predicted.

Manny in the gym Jeri rousing the crowd Rob being interviewed in the gym

Learn more about The King In The Ring production on our IndieGoGo page (now closed).