Originally premiered on Cinemax.
At one point this had Mickey Rourke attached to star in the lead role as a washed up boxer with Brian Dennehy as the sidekick (an ex-cop in the original script) and was set up at Hemdale. When Hemdale went bankrupt, and the script landed at Universal, the main executive attached to it died in a plane crash. The new executive wanted to make his own project and it ended up at ITC who had a deal with 20th Century Fox where it was finally made.