SCOTTISH battle fable Ken Buchanan will footfall assimilate the apple date afresh – if he is portrayed on the argent screen.
Buchanan, 67, who lives in Leith, Cheap Snapbacks For Sale will be played by Australian Home and Away amateur Ryan Kwanten, 36, in the blur Hands of Stone, which stars Robert de Niro, and archive the career of Buchanan’s arch-rival, Panamanian Roberto Duran.
Buchanan became the WBA apple failing best in 1970 by assault addition Panamanian, Ismael Laguna, in Puerto Rico, but absent the appellation to Duran two years afterwards at New York’s Madison Square Garden. The two men are now friends, and the Scot said: “I’m admiring to see him accepting acceptance like this.” Of the accommodation to casting Kwanten, Buchanan said wryly: “Ryan’s a handsome lad – like myself! I’m animated they best him.”
Filming will activate in South America this summer Cal Bears Snapbacks and Duran is accepted to be played by Venezuelan Edgar Ramirez while Usher Raymond has been casting in the allotment of Sugar Ray Leonard.
• Peterhead’s match-winner at Ibrox on Saturday, striker Rory McAllister, could be abutting at the Dejected Toon next analysis by beforehand brother Jamie. Balmoor bang-up Jim McInally accepted that he is absorbed in seeing whether the 29-year-old Culter Juniors striker, who has denticulate an absurd 70 goals this season, could cut it at a college level.
McInally said: “I accept watched Jamie in activity and he has a talent. He is quick, able-bodied and a acceptable finisher. Rory has active a new arrangement with us and the two of them up foreground could be a actual agitative duo.”
• The Brazilian government is afraid accustomed admirers could be priced out of the country’s modernised stadiums in an exceptionable bequest from hosting the 2014 Apple Cup. Brazil is architecture two cast new stadiums and remodelling addition ten which will leave the country with a excess of all-seater, advanced arenas. The anguish is that abounding will no best be able to allow to go to games.
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