Before Rocky Balboa, there was Chuck Wepner. Feeling inspired after watching the Muhammad Ali vs. Wepner 1975 heavyweight boxing fight, a young Sylvester Stallone went home and wrote a script for a ...

Good things have been happening lately to Bayonne's Chuck Wepner. A movie based on the life of the heavyweight boxer whose 1975 fight against Muhammad Ali was the inspiration for the "Rocky'' films ...

Chuck Wepner has fought some of the biggest names in professional boxing: Ali. Liston. Foreman. But taking on those powerhouses was nothing compared to the time he fought a bear. Actually, the two ...

So much so that his friends and family knew it -- and they knew something else, straight from Chuck's mouth: "Don't ever bother me or call me when 'Kojak' is on. This is my show." One night his mom ...

Mandalay Sports Media and Campbell Grobman Films will begin production this month in New York on The Bleeder, with Ray Donovan‘s Liev Schreiber to play heavyweight boxer Chuck Wepner, and Naomi Watts ...

As pro boxing fades into oblivion, it threatens to take with it one of the great recurring characters in movies. Palooka may be too harsh a term, but in various guises, he’s the journeyman fighter, ...

Charles Wepner (born February 26, 1939) is an American former professional boxer. He fell just nineteen seconds short of a full fifteen rounds against world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali in a 1975 ...

Good things have been happening lately to Bayonne's Chuck Wepner. A movie based on the life of the heavyweight boxer whose 1975 fight against Muhammad Ali was the inspiration for the "Rocky" films ...