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Charles Wepner was born on February 26, 1939, in New York City. [5] He is of German, Ukrainian, and Polish descent. [6]Wepner learned to fight on the streets of Bayonne, New Jersey, [7] saying, "This was a tough town with a lot of people from the docks and the naval base and you had to fight to survive".
Muhammad Ali vs. Chuck Wepner was a professional boxing match contested on March 24, 1975, for the undisputed heavyweight championship. [ 1 ] Ali won the fight after he knocked out Wepner in the fifteenth round.
Chuck Wepner, known as the 'Bayonne Bleeder', is a heavyweight boxer known for his iron chin and reckless behaviour. He lives with his second wife Phyllis and daughter Kimberly in New Jersey. By 1974, he was rising up the boxing ranks hopeful for an eventual fight with the champion George Foreman , defeating Terry 'the Storming Mormon' Hinke in ...
He left the sport for three years following the loss, but returned in 1970, winning seven consecutive fights before losing to Chuck Wepner by decision. The Wepner decision was highly controversial; most who saw the fight thought Terrell had won. After losing to Jeff Merritt in his next fight by a 1st-round technical knockout, Terrell retired. [6]
The Bayonne Bleeder got bronzed. Chuck Wepner, the heavyweight slugger who inspired Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky Balboa character when he shockingly knocked down Muhammad Ali in the ninth round of ...
Chuck allows the fame to get to his head and begins systematically partying, cheating on his wife and doing cocaine. Phyllis eventually finds out and, after a bitter argument, leaves him. After engaging in a mixed wrestling/boxing match with Andre the Giant , a down-on-his-luck Wepner meets a woman named Linda in a bar.
Randall Craig "Tex" Cobb (born May 7, 1950) is an American actor, martial artist, and former professional boxer who competed in the heavyweight division. Considered to possess one of the greatest boxing chins of all time, [1] Cobb was a brawler who also packed considerable punching power. [2]
Chuck Wepner: TKO 6 1976-10-02 Utica College Sports Complex, Utica, New York, U.S. Referee stopped the bout at 1:12 of the sixth round. Win 36–0: Bunny Johnson: TKO 8 1976-05-24: Olympiahalle, Munich, West Germany Win 35–0: Scott LeDoux: UD 10 1976-04-22 Metropolitan Sports Center, Bloomington, Minnesota, U.S. Win 34–0: Larry Middleton UD ...