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 ...

The ALI-WEPNER FIGHT on 24 Mar. 1975 was the first major boxing match in Cleveland since the SCHMELING-STRIBLING FIGHT of 1931. The uneven contest matched the reigning heavyweight champion of 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 ...

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 ...