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Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Chuck Wepner: Meet the Heavyweight Boxer Who Inspired 'Rocky'

On the night of March 24, 1975, a struggling actor and screenwriter named Sylvester Stallone checked into a Los Angeles theater to watch a closed-circuit broadcast of the great Muhammad Ali whipping some big, lumbering lug of a boxer from Bayonne, New Jersey, named Chuck Wepner. Or so he thought. ...

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