Chuck Wepner
American former professional boxerWikipedia
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Oct 4, 2026
Logan MiddletonHOST
Wepner.
Logan MiddletonHOST
Chuck Wepner.
Ty JordanHOST
I don't think it was Chuck Wepner in the movie.
Logan MiddletonHOST
Was it not?
Ty JordanHOST
I don't, I don't think that was it.
Ty JordanHOST
I don't think it was Chuck Wepner.
Logan MiddletonHOST
I could have sworn.
Ty JordanHOST
I'm almost certain it wasn't Chuck Wepner.
Lou ManfrediniHOST
but he still believed in himself.
Lou ManfrediniHOST
In March of 1975, he watched Chuck Wepner go 15 rounds with Muhammad Ali.
Lou ManfrediniHOST
Wepner lost, but he saw a script.
Lou ManfrediniHOST
Sylvester Stallone wrote Rocky in three and a half days.
Lou ManfrediniHOST
but he still believed in himself.
Lou ManfrediniHOST
In March of 1975, he watched Chuck Wepner go 15 rounds with Muhammad Ali.
Lou ManfrediniHOST
Wepner lost, but he saw a script.
Lou ManfrediniHOST
Sylvester Stallone wrote Rocky in three and a half days.
Sylvester StalloneGUEST
So my whole philosophy was I could not have any social life.
Sylvester StalloneGUEST
You couldn't have that and have absolute 100% discipline, dedication, to the fight that's coming up it's kind of like what marvin haggard would go to the mountains to train as opposed to training in vegas and then going to a casino it was absolute isolation well so i i wrote the screenplay paradise alley which is pretty good but i was so broke i optioned that i gave it away for 100 bucks and i felt as though god there's this one producer that showed a little spark of interest i said i got to do something A lot of people think that it was based on Chuck Wepner.
Sylvester StalloneGUEST
It wasn't.
Sylvester StalloneGUEST
I always was fascinated with Rocky Marciano because we're like exactly the same size.
Jimmy BartelHOST
Okay.
John AndersonCORRESPONDENT
So the inspiration was a journeyman boxer called Chuck Wepner.
Jimmy BartelHOST
Well done.
Jimmy BartelHOST
He
DarrenHOST
whatever.
DarrenHOST
Who's the one? Chuck Wepner.
DarrenHOST
And he's just being disrespectful to fucking reckless.
DarrenHOST
And he just sounds like a fucking idiot.
BrianHOST
But yes, this fight took place in 1975.
BrianHOST
It was between Muhammad Ali and Chuck Wepner.
BrianHOST
And yeah, Chuck Wepner, it said, was ranked like number eight.
BrianHOST
So he wasn't nobody.
BrianHOST
Not a nobody.
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DanHOST
terrific ending.
BrianHOST
And it's as I found out what really happened to the guy.
BrianHOST
It happened to Chuck Wepner.
Andrew RihnGUEST
and yeah it's hard to hard to top you know, Mr. T.
Andrew RihnGUEST
But yeah, he was always, you know, I remember seeing in the real Rocky 30 for 30 from ESPN that Chuck Wepner was brought in, not only because he was the so much of the inspiration for the character but he was brought in to do a line reading um and he he didn't do well and they didn't cast him so i think stallone though had always wanted real fighters to play fighters um and in this time after four other movies he's finally gotten his wish and there's almost a degree i think when i watch it that it's like a kid in the candy store to some degree that he's gotten the thing he wants and he's gonna play with it until it breaks And so there's this part, it feels to me sometimes watching it, that it's like once they got Tommy Morrison on screen, they just wouldn't take him off screen.
Andrew RihnGUEST
And he dominates it.
Andrew RihnGUEST
It's just in a montage after montage after montage.
speaker_1NARRATOR
And then, in 1975, something happened that would change everything.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Stallone watched a boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Chuck Wepner.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Wepner was considered a huge underdog.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Few expected him to last long against Ali, but he kept fighting.
Mike SteelyHOST
Their fans are, were cool too I think.
Mike SteelyHOST
But you are, uh, New Mexico is Chuck Wepner, the Bayonne Bleeder.
Mike SteelyHOST
Now, Chuck Wepner, you know, lost to Ali but went the distance, but his face was bathed in blood the whole time.
Mike SteelyHOST
Now, you're going to fight Joe Frazier, all right, in Madison Square Garden in the first big fights.
Mike SteelyHOST
So, well the, you know, and of course they've, Georgia has a great running back, Frazier.
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