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While “Real Steel” certainly is a movie dependent on special effects, the boxing choreography actually might be more realistic than actor Sylvester Stallone’s over-the-top brawling in “Rocky.” That’s because Hall of Famer Sugar Ray Leonard was the consultant for the fight scenes and worked with star Hugh Jackman, who portrays a faded fighter-turned-trainer, to develop a real boxer-trainer relationship with the underdog robot named “Atom.” “This was on-the-job training because it was my first movie,” Leonard said. “But I choreographed my fights when I was fighting.” Newsday/Photo provided by Disney
