
Requiem for a Heavyweight
1962 · Film · 95 min
Directed by Ralph Nelson
After suffering a brutal defeat and being told he can no longer fight, 37-year-old, scar-ridden prizefighter Louis 'Mountain' Rivera struggles to find a new direction in life.
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Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) takes a pretty good look at that. It has a neat POV segment at the beginning that shows a fight with Cassius Clay through the eyes of the main character.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056406/
And well... there's also Rocky V...