I used to watch The Three Stooges as a kid and occasionally catch an episode now and then, so I tuned into this one because of it's boxing theme. I thought it would be a nifty addition to the boxing titles list I have elsewhere on the IMDb. For starters, after having been away from the team for so long, I was actually shocked to see how old Moe, Larry and Shemp were here. OK, Moe and Larry were in their fifties and Shemp was sixty, but gosh, they looked terrible. The slapstick was par for the course I guess, but it wasn't until I read some other reviewers here that I learned this was a remake of an earlier Stooges flick. And as it relates to the title, the story never really got as far as an actual fight, the champ wound up breaking his hand by punching a brick wall! But there's a gym scene in which Shemp tries to spar with contender Chopper Kane (Dick Wessel) and things go awry from the outset as you'd expect. The chase scene in the warehouse viewed from an overhead camera was probably the best creative touch, while the rest of the short stayed true to the name of the Stooges work out location - the Slap-Happy Gym.
Review of Fling in the Ring
