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Antonio Deon Tarver (born November 21, 1968) is an American former professional boxer and boxing commentator. In boxing he competed from 1997 to 2015, and held multiple light heavyweight world championships, including the WBA (Unified), WBC, IBF and Ring magazine titles, as well as the IBO light heavyweight and cruiserweight titles.
In the film, Rocky Balboa (Stallone), now an aging small restaurant owner, is challenged to an exhibition fight by hothead young boxer Mason Dixon (Tarver). Development for a sixth Rocky film began after Stallone expressed regret of the outcome of Rocky V , which was viewed as a disappointing conclusion to the series.
[15] His poor performance was thought to have stemmed from having lost a massive amount of weight after filming Rocky Balboa earlier in the year. Tarver had weighed as much as 218 pounds portraying the heavyweight champion Mason "The Line" Dixon meaning that he had to lose 43 pounds to get down to the light heavyweight limit of 175.
But when a computer-simulated fight on ESPN depicting a bout between a young Rocky Balboa and the current champion, Mason Dixon (Antonio Tarver), reignites interest in the faded boxer, Rocky discovers he has not lost his fighting spirit and considers an opportunity to prove himself in the ring again. Rocky almost wins the fight but loses in a ...
Talia Rose Shire (née Coppola; born April 25, 1946) is an American actress, best known for her roles as Connie Corleone in The Godfather trilogy and Adrian Pennino Balboa in the Rocky series. For her work in The Godfather Part II and Rocky , Shire was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress , respectively, and ...
Tarver had two failed tests in his career, one after a win over Lateef Kayode in 2012 in a cruiserweight bout when he tested positive for drostanolone and again in 2015 when he tested positive for ...
The 95-minute docu exposes a relatable, vulnerable man who is often thought to be the movie characters he made iconic — Rocky Balboa or John Rambo. Born in 1946, Stallone grew up in New York …
Robert "Rocky" Balboa was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.He was the only child in a Roman Catholic, Italian-American or Italian immigrant family. [a] Rocky appears to be fully or semi-fluent in the Italian language; when Rocky is spoken to in Italian by his priest, Father Carmine, it is apparent that Rocky understands the language very well or fluently, including in a scene in which he ...