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Sylvester Stallone will join Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones on a team headed by US Open winner Mark O’Meara to play against an all-star Europeon team.
The competition will play out on a new golf TV show called All Stars Cup which will air on the British digital network Sky One on August 29th.
There’s no word yet if the show will play in the US.
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Sly Stallone announced Peter Manfredo Jr. will fight Sergio Mora for the $1 million prize Tuesday night at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. The Manfredo-Mora fight is scheduled for seven rounds and will be shown live on NBC.
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Sly Stallone was in LA on May 6, 2005 to tape an interview hosted by Larry King. The interview is set to air on CNN’s ‘Larry King Live’ May 14, 2005. Stallone will discuss his career, his new reality series, The Contender, his venture into health foods and supplements (‘Stallone High Protein Pudding’) and more.
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Can Stallone Save The Contender?
by Mary Murphy From TVGuide.com
With less than championship ratings, NBC’s The Contender is definitely on the ropes. Unwilling to admit defeat, cohosts Sylvester Stallone and Sugar Ray Leonard rushed this week to create a one-hour special that will air just before Sunday night’s regularly scheduled episode. On Thursday afternoon, these two tough superstars, both significantly dressed in black, met TVGuide.com for an exclusive interview at a Los Angeles boxing club.
TVGuide.com: Despite your star power and a tremendous amount of on-air promotion, The Contender has not lived up to expectations in the ratings. Why?
Sylvester Stallone: Other networks were dropping nuclear weapons on us. They were trying to see if we had the legs to survive.
Sugar Ray Leonard: Based upon what we have been up against, with the other networks doing everything they can to break us down, we stayed strong.
Stallone: [Fox’s] The Next Great Champ put a negative spin on boxing, which is a subject that was dubious to start off with. No one really knew or cared about boxing anymore, so we were really starting off from ground zero. But it is building momentum, not just here but in England, where we moved into first place in our time slot. And we are going to be opening in Germany, Australia, Italy and Spain. So the idea of this American dream still translates. The Rocky philosophy still resonates. So I think it’s really going to catch on. I really do.
TVG: Is that why you’re doing the extra hour? What are you doing in it?
Stallone: We decided to do this three days ago. [NBC-Universal president] Jeff Zucker is taking Dateline off the air this Sunday [to make room for our] hour special. So from 7 pm to 9 pm/ET will be The Contender. It will be me interviewing the wives, showing a different aspect, and then Sugar Ray and I will be recapping the four wonderful battles in the ring. We will sit there with the four winners and analyze what they did. You are going to meet them up close and personal.
Leonard: We are going to recap the first four episodes to let people catch up. There are some very dramatic moments, [like] the big shock in the first episode, when Alfonso Gomez decided to fight the most celebrated boxer of the competition, and it blew everybody away. And then in the third episode the fight with [Ishe Smith and] Ahmed Kadour [who lost]. They hated Ahmed. He walked around like he was God’s gift to the earth and to women. And last week [featured] the heartbreaking fight with Najai Turpin [who later committed suicide].
TVG: This show has been an uphill battle all the way. Why continue to fight so hard?
Stallone: We really love this show. And strangers were coming up to us in the street and recapping it. Then the studio executives caught all the chat on the Internet and it was so positive, they thought they were really getting something at the grass-roots level. The odd thing is, this is how the first Rocky started off. [Producers] Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff took this canister of film to people’s homes and created a buzz — because nobody wanted to see an unknown in a boxing film that was done for under $1 million. We couldn’t even get distribution. It was hard. So we did the same with The Contender. We said, “Let’s flog it. Let’s work it.”
TVG: So The Contender will not be pulled from the network’s schedule?
Stallone: NBC is not giving up. We are going to the end with a fight at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. I am even thinking about ways to do a second season, which would be dramatically different from the first.
– Craig
On Monday, March 7, 2005, Sylvester Stallone and Sugar Ray Leondard attended the premier party for NBC’s reality show, The Contender, at Planet Hollywood. Other celebrities including California’s Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Liza Minnelli and Tony Danza joined in the festivities.
In this undated promotional photo provided by NBC Universal, Sugar Ray Leonard and Sylvester Stallone, hosts of NBC reality show ‘The Contender,’ pose. ‘The Contender’ is offering an impressive prize, $1 million and a four-year contract, to one of the 16 professional boxers competing in the new NBC reality series.
(AP Photo/NBC Universal, Chris Hasto)
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Sylvester Stallone makes a rare television appearance when he guest stars on NBC’s Vegas at 9PM EST on Monday, January 3rd. Here’s info about the episode:
WHEN YOU GOT TO GO, YOU GOT TO GO
9pm 2005-01-03 ALL NEW!
WHEN ED IS KIDNAPPED, DANNY AND MIKE RACE AGAINST TIME TO FIND HIM — SYLVESTER STALLONE and DURAN DURAN GUEST STAR — When Ed (James Caan) is kidnapped, Danny (Josh Duhamel) and Mike (James Lesure) begin a frantic search of the city to find him. The fact that Ed refuses to let them contact autorities or pay the kidnapper’s ransom only makes their search more difficult. Sam (Vanessa Marcil) arranges a Vegas-style wedding for one of her clients, but it comes to a screeching halt when their lucky rings are lost. Elsewhere, Mary (Nikki Cox) and Delinda (Molly Sims) collaborate when the Montecito hosts a popular 80’s rock band (Duran-Duran). Marsha Thomason also stars. TV-14
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From the USA Weekend for October 29-31, 2004
Sylvester Stallone goes back to a boxing ring in January as host and co-producer of The Contender, an NBC “reality” entry. The man who became a star as Rocky Balboa offers potential Rockys a shot at fame and fortune, but he promises his audience more than a fight.
“The fights will just be about five minutes,” says Stallone, 58. Co-Producer Mark Burnett says Stallone is right for the job because “he loves boxing and what it means to the fans.” He’s been cold at the box office, though, so it’s unlikely a planned Rocky VI will happen now.
– Craig Zablo
Sly is pictured on the cover of today’s USA Today ( July 12, 2004 ). Inside there is an article titled ‘ NBC steps into the ring with fall reality programs’ with another picture of Sly.
Here’s an except…” but Sylvester Stallone who will serve as the Donald Trump of The Contender, offered his own version of Trump‘s signature line: ” You’re unconscious.”
Thanks to Ernest “Jazzman” Resendes for the scan!
– Craig Zablo [July 12, 2004]
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SZoner, JPolli1034, e-mailed to say that AMC‘s recent Rockyfest brought AMC some of the highest ratings that it’s had all season. Here’s what MediaWeek.com had to say: Ratings Box: What’s Hot/What’s Not -AMC’s RockyFest Scores a Knockout:
This just proves what we’ve known all along. People still love and, more imortantly, want to see Rocky. The time is right for Rocky VI. – Craig Zablo [July 11, 2004] |