{"id":787059,"date":"2026-07-07T23:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T23:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/787059\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T23:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T23:18:09","slug":"starz-drops-heart-pounding-fightland-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/787059\/","title":{"rendered":"Starz Drops Heart-Pounding &#8216;Fightland&#8217; Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/starz\/\" id=\"auto-tag_starz\" data-tag=\"starz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Starz<\/a> has released the official trailer for its British boxing drama <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/fightland\/\" id=\"auto-tag_fightland\" data-tag=\"fightland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fightland<\/a> (above), ahead of the show\u2019s July 31 premiere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFightland is a story of redemption, betrayal and brutal ambition \u2013 in and out of the ring. On the night that British-born boxer Duke Kilroy (Howard Charles) becomes world heavyweight champion, a vicious assault leaves his brother, Calvin, dead. Duke is devastated, and his reaction in the aftermath costs him eight years in a U.S. prison. Upon his release, and after having made a sinister discovery, Duke returns home seeking vengeance against the man he believes set him up \u2014 the criminal kingpin and his former promoter, Kingsley Marshall (Nicholas Pinnock). But Kingsley has vanished, leaving his children and wife, Joy (Deborah Ayorinde), who happens to be the love of Duke\u2019s life, to pick up the pieces.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Working with a cartel desperate to control London\u2019s drug market, Duke begins a high-risk game of infiltrating Kingsley\u2019s empire to destroy it from within and smoke out his enemy. But amidst a volatile criminal landscape, and competing influences threatening to pull him off course, Duke will need to channel everything that made him a champion fighter into his bloody pursuit to win the ultimate victory \u2013 revenge for his brother.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>In addition to Charles, Pinnock and Ayorinde, the series stars\u00a0Anita-Joy Uwajeh\u00a0as Cebella \u201cCece\u201d Marshall,\u00a0Charles Babalola\u00a0as Ezekiel \u201cZeek\u201d Marshall,\u00a0Tahirah Sharif\u00a0as Kim Harper,\u00a0Tyler Conti\u00a0as Justin \u201cJay\u201d Hall and\u00a0Richard Pepple\u00a0as Gary \u201cGazzer\u201d Kilroy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWatch the trailer above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starz has released the official trailer for its British boxing drama Fightland (above), ahead of the show\u2019s July&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,200471,82,25271],"class_list":["post-787059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fightland","tag-sports","tag-starz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}