The Rocky franchise got out of hand. Rocky was never supposed to be the greatest boxer on earth. He was never even supposed to win a major fight. Sylvester Stallone took inspiration from the 1975 fight between Muhammad Ali and Chuck Wepner. Wepner, an average fighter known mostly as his catchy and semi-insulting moniker The [...]

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Former heavyweight boxer and US Marine, Chuck Wepner, had his 15 minutes of fame back in 1975. Actually, to put it more accurate, it wasn't 15 minutes, it was 15 rounds of fame. 1975 was the year that Wepner, also ... Continue reading