Tonights documentary The Real Rocky by Jeff Feuerzeig was the story of former heavy weight boxer, Chuck Wepner.  Wepner has lived most of his life as a traveling liquor salesman and continues to earn his living through that trade to this day.  Boxing was never Chuck’s main priority in life but it was something he was good at.  He had worked his way through the heavy weight ranks, and after being beaten by Sonny Liston, Chuck had earned himself the nickname the Bayonne Bleeder due to him being from Bayonne New Jersey, and the fight leaving him with several lacerations on his face.  On March 24th 1975 Wepner got his shot at the heavyweight championship of the world against Muhammad Ali.  Wepner entered the fight as a massive underdog, but he managed to push Ali to the 15th and final round of the fight.  Sylvester Stallone saw this fight and used it as inspiration for his famous Rocky movies.  Stallone was always willing to admit that this moment inspired Rocky and even acknowledged that Ali was the inspiration for Apollo Creed, but would never admit that Wepner was Rocky. [Read more...]