On June 29, 1970, Sonny Liston squared off against Chuck Wepner in a heavyweight fight. Liston came into the fight with a 49-4 record but was coming off of a loss in his last bout. Before Wepner ...

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 ...

Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa and Talia Shire as Adrian in Rocky. (Photo by John Springer Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images) Chuck Wepner may not be a household name, but the fictional ...

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, the ...

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 ...