Brian Minto has a story to tell — and a film to share.

The retired professional boxer from Butler, now 49, compiled a 42-11 record with 29 knockouts during his pro career, which ran from 2002 through 2016. His last fight was a fifth-round TKO of Andras Czomor at Pullman Park in 2016.

“God’s taking me down a different path now,” Minto said.

Part of that journey will take place the night of Aug. 31 at the Penn Theater on Main Street in Butler. An approximate 90-minute documentary film about Minto’s career and life will be shown at the Penn as part of a Butler Football Hometown Heroes program that includes Minto’s induction and a reunion of past BFHH honorees. This is the 20th year of the Butler Football Hometown Hero program.

“Everything just came together for this,” BFHH committee member Ralph McElhaney said. “Two weeks after our committee decided to honor Brian, news of this documentary film fell in our lap.

“We’ve been thinking about a good time and place to have a reunion and bring back our previous inductees ... This whole thing lined up perfectly and we’re excited about it.

“Our committee is doing everything we can to make this the event of the year in Butler,” McElhaney added.

Doors will open at the Penn Theater at 5:30 p.m. The program will begin at 7 p.m. and will feature Hll of Fame speaker and Butler graduate Steve Gilliland, an introduction of past BFHH honorees present and deceased, and words from Minto himself before the showing of the documentary.

Penn Theater Director of Development and Marketing Mary Krewduk said that “the final renovations are being done on the theater now and this will be one of the first marquee events we’re hosting.

“We’re proud to partner with the Hometown Heroes and we’re very excited about this.”

While many tickets will be given to past Hometown Hero honorees, tickets will be made available to the general public at $20 each. Ticket information will be released in mid-June.

With a potential sellout crowd anticipated, Krewduk said that the Penn will offer showings of the documentary on other nights as the demand warrants. Information on all Penn Theater events can be found at thepenntheater.org.

DeQwan Young, producer and director of the documentary entitled “The Beast, The Final Fight,” describes Minto as a “real-life Rocky.” Young is a former football player and he and Minto met while working out at a gym in Cranberry Township.

“Brian’s story fascinated me,” Young said. “I always told him I had interest in filming a documentary about it and he was willing to do it. He definitely has a story to tell.”

And a message to send.

“This isn’t about me,” Minto said of the Penn Theater event or the film itself. “I feel like my journey can inspire people. I learned to never quit, never give up, because you never know what God is leading you to or what He has in store for you.”

Minto began going to the Butler Cubs Hall as a teenager and dabbled in boxing there. He met the late Steve Six of Specialty Outreach Services and considered him a mentor “who helped me through a lot of things.

“I was never court-ordered to go there, but some of my friends were,” Minto said of the Cubs Hall. “I started going there with them. I was in and out of that place a number of times, learned the basics of boxing, but only had 18 amateur fights.”

He turned pro at age 28, not with any long pro career in the ring or a title shot of any kind in mind.

“I was broke and when I was offered my first pro fight, I saw it as Christmas money,” he said. “I still worked early in my pro career, was a line man for Armstrong Cable and did some mortar work just to get by.”

He took 18 fights — winning them all — in the first 18 moths of his pro career. Minto’s first TV fight was on ESPN against Vince Maddalon, who build a commanding lead in points over the first nine rounds of the bout scheduled for 10.

“I was dead on my feet, beaten up ... I mean, I was done,” Minto recalled. “My coach, Tommy Yankello, asked me if I wanted to quit at that point. For some reason, I didn’t. I decided to go on.

“I summoned up energy in that final round, I don’t know how or where it came from him. I hit (Maddalon) with a combination, he stepped into a hook and he went down. Just like that, it was over. I can’t explain that last round at all. It felt like divine intervention.

“Had I quit or lost that night, that would have probably been it for me and boxing. I would have gone back to climbing telephone poles, carrying bricks and blocks or something.”

Six weeks before a scheduled bout with German boxing hero Axel Schulz in Germany, Minto discovered he had a broken right hand. He continued to train, but couldn’t put a glove on his right hand until two days before the fight.

“Then I go in there, beat the guy, and my career changes again,” Minto said.

He wound up fighting for the WBO world cruiserweight title, losing in nine rounds to Marco Huck.

“A real-life Rocky?,” Minto said. “I guess I am. But there’s a lot of real-life Rockys out there. They just have to find it within themselves. Hopefully, that’s a message I can deliver.”