8 Underrated Sport Movies You Need to Watch This Week. Number One Will Start a Fight.

Big scores, tiny crowds. These sports movies outplayed the hits and got a fraction of the attention. Your Friday night is handled.

Number one picks a fight with a Brad Pitt blockbuster. Bring a helmet.

1. 8
   Arthur the King (2024)7.0

   Wahlberg gets upstaged by a dog, and that's the point.

   Critics shrugged with a 54 Metacritic. Audiences gave it an A CinemaScore and beat 84% of movies. $40.9 million worldwide on a reported $19M budget.
2. 7
   The Senior (2023)7.1

   The crowd pleaser your dad needs and nobody watched.

   A 7.1 movie.guru score and an A CinemaScore, yet just 1,551 IMDb votes. Michael Chiklis carries it to $5.3 million domestic. Call your dad.
3. 6
   Everest: The Other Side (2026)7.3

   A climbing doc this good deserves more than 494 votes.

   Beats 92% of movies with audiences and sits at 7.6 on IMDb. Critics were stingy with a 63 Metacritic. Grossed $1.39 million domestic. Basically a rumor.
4. 5
   The Fire Inside (2024)8.1

   The best boxing movie of 2024, and nobody showed up.

   93% on Rotten Tomatoes, an A CinemaScore, an 8.1 movie.guru score. Then $8.1 million domestic on a reported $12M budget and 3,754 IMDb votes. Criminal.
5. 4
   The Iron Claw (2023)8.8

   Zac Efron's career best. Not close.

   An 8.8 movie.guru score that beats 93% of movies with audiences. Only 123,220 IMDb votes, under a third of F1's 399,858. Pack tissues, it earns them.
6. 3
   The Wrestler (2008)9.3

   The best wrestling movie ever made. Sorry, Iron Claw.

   A 9.3 movie.guru score and 99% on Rotten Tomatoes, made for a reported $6M. Still fewer IMDb votes than The Blind Side's 394,372. Explain that.
7. 2
   Warrior (2011)8.5

   The best fight movie nobody paid to see.

   Beats 94% of movies with audiences and holds an 8.1 on IMDb. Made $13.7 million domestic on a reported $25M budget. Theaters skipped it. Couches didn't.
8. 1
   Rush (2013)8.3

   Rush is the racing movie F1 wishes it was.

   Same 8.3 movie.guru score as F1. Guru's Take: 8.1 for Rush, 7.3 for F1. Rush did it on a reported $38M, a fraction of F1's budget. Fight me.

$281.03 says someone in the comments defends F1 by typing 'but Brad Pitt' and nothing else.

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