Chuck Wepner: Meet the Heavyweight Boxer Who Inspired 'Rocky'
www.biography.com
Wepner's 1975 fight with Muhammad Ali motivated Sylvester Stallone to write the movie about a fighting underdog.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/L8_2_PartE on 2024-04-18 22:22:46.

Original Title: TIL that ‘Rocky’ (1976) was inspired by the true story of Chuck Wepner, a local boxer from New Jersey who was set up for a dream fight with Muhammad Ali. Wepner quit his job to train full time, and against all odds, lasted 15 rounds with the champ. Stallone was in the audience.

  • @bus_factorEnglish
    33•2 months ago

    Are you European? Some websites in the US can’t be bothered to implement GDPR and just geoblock all of Europe instead. You probably can’t access homedepot.com either.

    • @[email protected]English
      13•2 months ago

      It does work in Germany, so it’s not about GDPR. Home depot doesn’t work btw.

    • andrewEnglish
      1•2 months ago

      Sometimes it’s not about GDPR and more about “we get no benefits from this area because we have no presence there but we get plenty of DDOS.” Source: had to do this at my $DAYJOB.