Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist

Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist
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GenreCrime drama
Created byShaye Ogbonna
Based on
Fight Night
by
  • Jeff Keating
  • Jim Roberts
Starring
Music byScott Bomar
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes8
Production
Executive producers
  • Shaye Ogbonna
  • Akinsoji David Akintola
  • Jason Horwitch
  • Kevin Hart
  • Bryan Smiley
  • Mike Stein
  • Will Packer
  • Sabrina Wind
  • Craig Brewer
  • Conal Byrne
  • Will Pearson
  • Carrie Lieberman
  • Jeff Keating
  • Lars Jacobson
  • Kenny Burns
Production companies
Original release
NetworkPeacock
ReleaseSeptember 5 (2024-09-05) –
October 10, 2024 (2024-10-10)
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Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist is an American crime drama television miniseries created by Shaye Ogbonna, based on the 2020 podcast of the same name fictionalizing an actual armed robbery, at an Atlanta party,[1] on the night of Muhammad Ali's October 1970 comeback fight, after being stripped of his boxing license in 1967 for being a conscientious objector to fighting in the Vietnam War.[2]

The limited series premiered on September 5, 2024, on Peacock with the first three episodes.[3] It concluded with its eighth episode on October 10, 2024.

  1. ^ Tinubu, Aramide (October 10, 2024). "'Fight Night' Creator Shaye Ogbonna on His Real-Life Connections to the Heist: 'It Came From a Personal Place for Me'". Variety. Retrieved October 13, 2024.
  2. ^ Davis, David (October 1, 2005). "Knockout: An oral history of Muhammad Ali, Atlanta, and the fight nobody wanted". Atlanta. Archived from the original on October 31, 2019. Retrieved October 13, 2024.
  3. ^ Cordero, Rosy (June 12, 2024). "Peacock's Muhammad Ali Limited Series Fight Night Drops Teaser & Premiere Date". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on June 12, 2024. Retrieved June 12, 2024.