10 November 1989
Brutal Glory is a 1989 South African biographical sports drama film directed by Koos Roets. It’s a highly fictionalized biographical story about Norman Selby, better known as Kid McCoy, an early 20th‑century American middleweight boxing champion. The film follows McCoy’s rise from a tough New York street fighter to a famed boxer under the guidance of an early‑1900s promoter, and his subsequent career ups and downs, including bouts abroad in Africa.
Storyline
The highly fictionalized making and breaking of Norman Selby, more recognizable as Kid McCoy, the real life American middleweight world boxing champion from the turn of the 20th century.