{"id":12626,"date":"2003-10-08T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-08T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=12626"},"modified":"2021-04-23T14:46:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T18:46:30","slug":"wepner-vs-stallone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2003\/10\/08\/wepner-vs-stallone\/","title":{"rendered":"Wepner vs Stallone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stallonezone.com\/imgs\/news\/2003\/oct\/100803wepnerslydeniro.jpg?resize=296%2C200\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\"><b><span class=\"bodytext\">Chuck Wepner<\/span><\/b><span class=\"bodytext\">, the fighter who helped inspired\u00a0<b>Sylvester Stallone<\/b>&#8216;s\u00a0<b>&#8220;Rocky&#8221;\u00a0<\/b>movies, plans to sue\u00a0<b>Sylvester Stallone<\/b>\u00a0because\u00a0<b>Sly<\/b>\u00a0has used his name over the years to promote the\u00a0<b>Rocky<\/b>\u00a0series.\u00a0<b>Sly<\/b>\u00a0has said that the<b>\u00a0Wepner &#8211; Ali<\/b>\u00a0title fight provided a spark of inspiration for the creation of\u00a0<b>Rocky<\/b>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"bodytext\" align=\"left\"><b>Wepner<\/b>\u00a0is quoted as saying, &#8220;I have never gotten one penny from these movies which have made over $1 billion&#8221;&#8230; &#8220;The last straw was when he [<b>Sly<\/b>] was in\u00a0<b>Weehawken<\/b>\u00a0filming &#8216;<b>Copland&#8217;<\/b>\u00a0a few years ago and told me that he might have a part for me. I went up there, but nothing ever came of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\" align=\"left\">So 27 years after the release of\u00a0<b>&#8220;Rocky,&#8221;<\/b>\u00a0<b>Chuck<\/b>\u00a0has decided to sue. And the last straw happened 7 years ago when<b>\u00a0Sly<\/b>\u00a0said he\u00a0<u>MIGHT<\/u>\u00a0have a part for\u00a0<b>Chuck<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\" align=\"left\">I wonder, over the years, how many times Chuck has told people he was the inspiration for<b>\u00a0Rocky<\/b>. I wonder how many autographs and speaking engagements were prompted because people knew of\u00a0<b>Chuck<\/b>&#8216;s connection to\u00a0<b>Rocky<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\" align=\"left\">This is a pretty sad story.<\/p>\n<hr noshade=\"noshade\" width=\"80%\" \/>\n<p class=\"bodytext\" align=\"left\"><b>&#8211; Craig Zablo<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Wepner, the fighter who helped inspired\u00a0Sylvester Stallone&#8216;s\u00a0&#8220;Rocky&#8221;\u00a0movies, plans to sue\u00a0Sylvester Stallone\u00a0because\u00a0Sly\u00a0has used his name over the years to promote the\u00a0Rocky\u00a0series.\u00a0Sly\u00a0has said that the\u00a0Wepner &#8211; Ali\u00a0title fight provided a spark of inspiration for the creation of\u00a0Rocky. Wepner\u00a0is quoted as saying, &#8220;I have never gotten one penny from these movies which have made over $1 billion&#8221;&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,20,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-78","category-celebs","category-rocky"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-3hE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12627,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12626\/revisions\/12627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}