A year in sports and entertainment just doesn’t seem complete without a new boxing movie added to the mix. This year will be no exception with Chuck, a biopic about Chuck Wepner, coming to theaters in ...

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 ...

Boxer Chuck Wepner’s biggest moment came March 24, 1975 when the journeyman boxer, known as the Bayonne Bleeder for his New Jersey hometown and his proclivity to battle on no matter the beating he ...

The Bayonne Bleeder got bronzed. Chuck Wepner, the heavyweight slugger who inspired Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky Balboa character when he shockingly knocked down Muhammad Ali in the ninth round of their ...

Boxer Chuck Wepner’s biggest moment came March 24, 1975 when the journeyman boxer, known as the Bayonne Bleeder for his New Jersey hometown and his proclivity to battle on no matter the beating he ...

BAYONNE -- When Chuck Wepner visited the set of "The Bleeder," the upcoming movie about his life, the former heavyweight boxer tried giving actor Liev Schreiber some tips for a unique fight scene. But ...

Fri, November 25, 2016 at 3:37 PM UTC Feuerzeig’s work is an insightful biography of Wepner, a former Marine and bouncer-turned-boxer who gained notoriety (and the nickname “The Bayonne Bleeder”) for ...

RICHFIELD, Ohio (WJW) – It’s hard to believe 50 years ago today, this land once hosted the Palace on the Prairie, the Richfield Coliseum. It’s now gone, but on March 24, 1975, it hosted one of the ...

Here is an exclusive clip before tonight’s premiere of the finished feature biopic of boxer Chuck Wepner gets a splashy Tribeca Film Festival premiere, the film showing for the first time under its ...

It's one of the most famous scenes in cinema history. While training for his fight against Apollo Creed, Rocky Balboa runs up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and throws his hands in the ...

The newly released sports drama “The Brawler” may be set in New Jersey, but co-writer Robert DiBella happens to be from Long Island. “The Brawler” tells the story of Chuck Wepner, the real-life ...