Summary
Peacock has released the first trailer for its upcoming limited series,Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist.The series boasts an impressive ensemble which includes Kevin Hart (Gordon “Chicken Man” Williams), Don Cheadle (J.D. Hudson),Samuel L. Jackson(Frank Moten), Taraji P. Henson, Terrence Howard, Chloe Bailey and among many more. The new seriesis based on the iHeart true-crime podcast of the same name, following the story of a heist that happens at an afterparty that occurred on the night of Muhammed Ali’s 1970 comeback fight.
Thefirst trailer forFight Night: The Million Dollar Heisthas been releasedbyPeacock, and it’s filled with the promise of intrigue and consequences. Check it out below:
Set to the voiceover backdrop of Hart, it starts off with the Chicken Man saying he has a party planned for Frank, dubbed “The Black Godfather.” It’s an ambitious endeavor for a character who seems desperate about providing for his family and making a name for himself. The same could go for his accomplices, who are briefly shown in the trailer. The promo teases the infamous heist and its deadly repercussions.
Fight Night: The Million Dollar HeistIs Based On A True, Infamous Story
It was an unusual case then, and the limited series teases the conception, execution, and repercussions of the crime.
Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heistwill presumablytake place on the 1970 night of Ali’s monumental comeback fight, his return to the ring after a three-and-a-half-year-long exile. Reportedly, before his match, he received a gift box which had inside the carcass of a dead dog with a letter saying that “draft dodgers” — a term Ali has long fought against ever since he avoided active service in the Vietnam War — are to receive the same fate. The highly anticipated fight between Ali and Jerry Quarry sets the stage for the million dollar heist the limited series teases.
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Thearmed robbery happened to more than 100 victims. Upon arriving at the afterparty, the attendees, who had come to Atlanta, Georgia to see the fight, were greeted by six or eight men armed with shotguns who robbed them of their money and jewelry. A young man with a long record of arrests, Houston Jimmy Hammonds, 27 at the time, was arrested shortly after the robbery because he bought a shotgun near the site of the robbery, according to Lieut. J.D. Hudson (now played byCheadle).
It was an unusual case then, and the limited series teases the conception, execution, and repercussions of the crime. The official synopsis of the series says thatHart’s Chicken Man is the host of the afterpartyand the mastermind behind the crime and that Cheadle’s J.D. is an old adversary. The trailer also teases a character who’s “hellbent on clearing his name.”Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heistwill give a deeper, dramatized look at the heist and the consequences that follow stealing from some of the nation’s dangerous criminals, including Jackson’s character Frank.
Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heistwill premiere on Peacock on June 16, 2025.
Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist
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Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist is a crime drama television series created for Peacock. Based on the true-crime podcast, the series recounts the night in 1970 when Muhammad Ali achieved a comeback, all the while a dangerous armed robbery changed the landscape of the city forever.
