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      • Yes, Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist is a true story. In conversation with Georgia Public Broadcasting in August 2024, executive producer Will Packer, who also produced the iHeartRadio podcast, spoke of the almost stranger-than-fiction element of the real 1970 heist that captured his attention.
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  1. Sep 5, 2024 · Yes, Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist is a true story. In conversation with Georgia Public Broadcasting in August 2024, executive producer Will Packer, who also produced the iHeartRadio ...

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  3. 4 days ago · Peacock's new crime thriller Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist tells a shocking but true-to-life story of the 1970 heist that occurred in Atlanta on the heels of Muhammad Ali's comeback fight against Jerry Quarry. The series is inspired by iHeart Radio's similarly titled true-crime podcast and dramatized to depict the half-century-old ...

  4. 5 days ago · Peacock's "Fight Night" takes dramatic liberties in telling the story centered on ambitious local hustler Gordon “Chicken Man” Williams (Kevin Hart). Williams makes moves throwing the lavish ...

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  5. Aug 27, 2024 · Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist is an original series inspired by a real 1970 armed robbery that took place on the night of Muhammad Ali’s historic comeback fight, an event that...

  6. Sep 5, 2024 · The story was covered in the iHeart true-crime podcast, ‘Fight Night,’ by Jeff Keating and Jim Roberts, which serves as the basis for the show. It was created and written by Shaye Ogbonna, delving into the brazen nature of the heist and the social, cultural, and racial tensions driving change within a city that was quickly modernizing on ...

  7. 6 days ago · Peacock’s new limited series, “Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist,” is based on a real robbery that happened in Atlanta during Muhammad Ali’s 1970 comeback fight.

  8. 5 days ago · How much of 'Fight Night' is based on a true story? “The plot and the events — a lot of that’s true,” creator Ogbonna says. Where the series took liberties was from “a character ...

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