Chuck Wepner
Wepner was the inspiration for Sylvester Stallone in his creation of the Rocky franchise of movies. An ex-Marine, Wepner won the Golden Gloves boxing competition in 1964 and launched a professional boxing career during which he fought the greatest of the greats, including Sonny Liston, George Foreman, and Ernie Terrell, as well as Muhammad Ali, in a 1975 bout which... read full bio