In 1975, Muhammad Ali was just coming off beating George Foreman in the Rumble in the Jungle and wanted an easy tuneup bout so his team signed him to fight Chuck Wepner. Wepner was a legitimate ...

Legendary veteran American boxer Chuck Wepner receives a message from his wife Linda, notifying him that two journalists from Colombia want to interview him about his boxing legacy. Chuck would ...

Sylvester Stallone saw a boxing match between Mohammed Ali and Chuck Wepner, which inspired him to write the script of Rocky.

Former President Donald Trump’s preparation for Tuesday’s debate with Vice President Kamala Harris on ABC need consist only ...

Too many to list here. There were several (or, several million) "real Rockys." His Slyness says Chuck Wepner inspired the character. Stallone wrote the script, so that's that. Having watched Chuck ...

Despite growing up in Bayonne, a town that produced legends like Chuck Wepner, the inspiration for “Rocky,” and George R.R. Martin, the mind behind “Game of Thrones,” my deepest pride ...

Used by permission. The inspiration for the film Through fate or whatever, I ended up at the Muhammad Ali-Chuck Wepner fight. Wepner, a battling bruising type of club fighter who had never really ...

Ali's story — one of a driven, charismatic young athlete who lived up to his claim to be "The Greatest" — took on moral ...

Inspired by the 1975 title fight between Chuck Wepner and Muhammad Ali, Stallone wrote the first draft of the first Rocky movie in less than 4 days. Though that’s where the story began ...

The story behind the boxer, Chuck Wepner, who inspired the film Rocky. With Liev Schreiber, Jim Gaffigan, Michael Rapaport, Pooch Hall, Morgan Spector, Ron Perlman, and Naomi Watts. Produced by ...

Ali brought drama and spectacle to fights against such no-names as Chuck Wepner, whose game performance inspired Sylvester Stallone to write "Rocky." Against opponents with star quality ...