On November 23rd, 2010, Christy Martin lay on the floor of her bedroom in Apopka, Florida, feeling the blood drain from her body. Then 42 years old, she was the most successful female fighter in boxing history, widely credited with putting the women’s sport on the map. But she was no match for a man armed with both a knife and a gun. Her husband and trainer, Jim Martin, had stabbed her four times in the chest and hacked her left leg to the bone before leaving a bullet lodged three inches from her heart. Then he left her to die while he went to wash off her blood.

In Christy , the compelling new film about her extraordinary life, Sydney Sweeney gives a gut-wrenching performance as the felled champion in that moment. Audiences feel the full force of the shock, fear, isolation, and d

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