A new Disney+ series aired this week starring the likes of Boiling Point’s Stephen Graham and The Crown's Erin Doherty and you might be wondering if it’s based on a true story.
Graham stars as notorious boxer Sugar Goodson in A Thousand Blows which is set in the perilous world of illegal boxing in 1880s Victorian London.
The drama follows two friends from Jamaica, Hezekiah Moscow and Alec Munroe, who find themselves thrust into the criminal underbelly of London’s bare-knuckle boxing scene.
It is here that Hezekiah, played by Small Axe actor Malachi Kirby, meets Mary Carr, Queen of an all-female criminal gang known as the Forty Elephants, played by The Crown star Erin Doherty, who hopes to exploit his talents to further her enterprise.
Hezekiah also gets caught up with Sugar, the self-declared king of the East End boxing world, as his ambitions to fight in the West End threaten everything Sugar has built.
But is the new series based on a true story? Here’s what we know.
Is A Thousand Blows based on a true story?
Disney+ confirmed the series is based on “true life stories” of people in London in the 1880s.
In its summary of the series, the streaming giant explained: “This series is inspired by the true life stories of a group of characters battling for survival in the brutal East End of London in the 1880s.”
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How to watch A Thousand Blows
If you’ve not started watching the new series yet, you might be wondering how you can watch all the action unfold.
The first series of A Thousand Blows is now available to watch on Disney+ and a second series is confirmed to have completed production.
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