The proposed boxing match between Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffman would have been held at Madison Sq. Backyard.
Hoo-ah! Really, how about who’re two performing legends you’d need to see in a boxing match? When you went with Robert Mitchum and Charles Bronson, we’d all be in for one hell of a slobberknocker. However after we consider Al Pacino squaring off towards Dustin Hoffman, we would have an actual demonstration of The Methodology on our arms — and to suppose it was truly proposed.
Having come up across the similar time, Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffman rapidly marked themselves as among the most original, daring skills on the display. With that, individuals couldn’t assist however lump them in the identical class and debate over who had the higher hand — or the perfect proper hook. As Pacino remembers in his new e book Sonny Boy (which is filled with wonderful tales), “There must have been something in the air, because the comparisons were flying left and right. It got to the point where the great theater producer and impresario, Alexander H. Cohen, a guy I liked very much, suggested that Dustin and I get together at Madison Square Garden and fight each other in a boxing match, and he really meant it.” Oh come on, that’s one million instances higher than Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul!
Pacino would find yourself disregarding the potential bout with Hoffman, absolutely conscious he wouldn’t stand an opportunity. “I said to Cohen, ‘Let me just tell you straight out: Dustin will beat me. He works out. He’ll knock me out.’ I thought Alexander would be better off asking Meryl Streep to fight me instead. But then I got a little worried. Sh*t, what if she wins? Luckily, the fight never got off the ground.” Now think about Pacino being advised he needed to get into the ring with the Raging Bull himself, Robert De Niro…
Regardless of their decades-spanning careers and having quite a few parallels, Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffman solely ever had one shared credit score: 1990’s Dick Tracy, with Pacino giving an Oscar-nominated flip as Massive Boy Caprice and Hoffman within the restricted function of nervous, sweaty henchman Mumbles.
Think about it’s the Nineteen Seventies and make a name to your shady bookie. Who do you have got within the boxing match between Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffman?
