One More Round ; Fx Follows a Retired Boxer's Comeback in a Drama Filled with Fight- Game Cliches

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It's an unfair match, unfortunately: FX's heartfelt if occasionally sluggish new boxing drama, "Lights Out," arrives just as the culture is preoccupied with "The Fighter," director David O. Russell's magnificently acted, thrillingly taut film based on the real-life story of a junior welterweight's unlikely comeback.

"Lights Out," premiering tonight, is a fictional story about an Irish Catholic heavyweight champ in New Jersey (Holt McCallany) who comes out of retirement to avoid bankruptcy and restore his wounded pride. It doesn't have too much in common with "The Fighter," but it has just enough to seem redundant.

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One More Round ; Fx Follows a Retired Boxer's Comeback in a Drama Filled with Fight- Game Cliches

That's because all boxing stories -- whether they are two hours long or, as with "Lights Out," a 12-episode season -- share elemental trajectories that make them blur together i...

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