72 years old Chuck Wepner a name who fight 15 rounds in 1975 with world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali. Wepner has been often matched with ?Rocky Balboa? history?s well known name. In his whole career Wepner won 35, lost 14, drawn 2 and won 17 by KO from his total 51 fights.

Chuck Wepner original name is ?Charles Wepner?. In boxing field he was named “The Bayonne Bleeder”. He is a heavyweight boxer born on 26th February, 1939 in New York City, U.S. Wepner worked as security guard before entering in boxing. He became a professional boxer in 1964. He started boxing when he was a member of the United States Marine Corps. At the beginning he was the New Jersey State Heavyweight Boxing Champion and was also famous in the Northeast Boxing Club. When he lost fights against Jose King, Roman George Foreman? and Sonny Liston his fans started considering him as loser. In the fight with Liston his face was much injured.

After many lost Wepner won nine of his next eleven fights. His first 2 winning games were against Charlie Polite and WBA Heavyweight champion Ernie Terrell. Then in 1975 his competition was announced with world heavyweight champion Ali. According to the Time magazine Muhammad Ali guaranteed 1.5 million dollars and Wepner signed for 100,000 dollars which he ever earned in his life career. For the training Wepner went near the Catskill Mountains. Under the supervision of Al Braverman and Bill Prezant coach he spent four weeks there. On 24th March at the Richfield Coliseum near Cleveland they fought against each other. In ninth round Wepner knock down Ali by hitting on his chest but in final round he lost Ali broke his nose and he also put cuts above his both eyes.

?Rocky Balboa? is the famous character which was taken from the Wepner fight. While Wepner was fighting against Ali a young actor Sylvester Stallone was inspired from his challenge given to Ali. After that he created a character named ?Rocky Balboa? and picturised which stood at the hit list of Hollywood industry for many months.

Chuck Wepner

Chuck Wepner

Chuck Wepner