Here's the movie of the month for those who like their escapism big, brutal and brainless. Two fine young actors – James Marshall (Twin Peaks) and Cuba Gooding Jr. (Boyz n the Hood) – have inexplicably agreed to strike suitable-for-leering poses in their underwear while director Rowdy Herrington (Road House) devises other distractions from the idiotic plot.

Marshall plays Tommy Riley, a white boxing hope who might have had a 90210 ZIP Code in his future if his father's gambling debts hadn't landed him in the clutches of Horn (Brian Dennehy), a Chicago promoter who stages illegal prizefights with street kids. Exploiting racial tensions in the ring is a Horn specialty, so Tommy is soon in mortal combat with his black friend Lincoln (Gooding). Dennehy even strips down to throw a few punches during a bloody climax that leaves the big guy huffing and puffing and all rational thought down for the count.

“Oh Sherrie”

Steve Perry's girlfriend Sherrie Swafford was actually in the studio when Perry began writing this song--his lone Top Ten hit as a solo act--with two co-writers. The trio began at midnight one night with just "Oh, Sherrie!" and "hold on, hold on." Three hours later, they had a complete song. Swafford, however, had to wait until the next day to hear it. "Sherrie actually got tired and went to bed," Perry said. She also appeared in the video, but their relationship did not hold on for long.