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Duran1970 wrote: ↑04 May 2020, 17:04 I thought this was about real boxers....not Mickey friggin Rourke

Syntax Error wrote: ↑04 May 2020, 17:41 Muhammad Ali starred in the film, The Greatest as himself.

Ali also starred in Freedom Road.

oogiebe wrote: ↑04 May 2020, 17:10

Duran1970 wrote: ↑04 May 2020, 17:04 I thought this was about real boxers....not Mickey friggin Rourke

He's a freak.

Duran1970 wrote: ↑04 May 2020, 21:06

oogiebe wrote: ↑04 May 2020, 17:10

He's a freak.

I can't stand that guy...

oogiebe wrote: ↑04 May 2020, 21:09

Duran1970 wrote: ↑04 May 2020, 21:06

I can't stand that guy...

He was good in 'the Wrestler' but that was the exception. Real life, he's a cartoon charactor.

gilgamesh wrote: ↑04 May 2020, 21:10

oogiebe wrote: ↑04 May 2020, 21:09
He was good in 'the Wrestler' but that was the exception. Real life, he's a cartoon charactor.

My favorite movie he's in is "Bullet"

oogiebe wrote: ↑04 May 2020, 21:11

gilgamesh wrote: ↑04 May 2020, 21:10

My favorite movie he's in is "Bullet"

Never seen it, basically because he's in it. Saw the Wrestler because I was a huge wrestling fan back in the day.

gilgamesh wrote: ↑04 May 2020, 21:12

oogiebe wrote: ↑04 May 2020, 21:11
Never seen it, basically because he's in it. Saw the Wrestler because I was a huge wrestling fan back in the day.

Ironically a lot of Wrestlers hate that movie

oogiebe wrote: ↑04 May 2020, 21:17

gilgamesh wrote: ↑04 May 2020, 21:12

Ironically a lot of Wrestlers hate that movie

I've heard a lot say it was the way it was. I know I enjoyed it.

gilgamesh wrote: ↑04 May 2020, 21:21

oogiebe wrote: ↑04 May 2020, 21:17

I've heard a lot say it was the way it was. I know I enjoyed it.

I can see why a lot wouldn't like it. It basically presents it as if every Wrestler, no matter how successful ultimately winds up a bum scraping through by the skin of his teeth.

A lot of the character's traits seem to be based on the real life of guys like Jake "The Snake" Roberts.

Though it is really sad how many of those guys do indeed wind up broke at the end of it all. Especially in the older days when they're not paid the way they often are now.

Alguiffer wrote: ↑04 May 2020, 12:46 Interesting and fun thread, thanks.
Can't remember what I had for dinner yesterday but some of these old timer's film appearances ring clear as a bell to me:

Willie Pep in Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) - he played a patron in the boxing/wrestling bar hangout where boxers and wrestlers were taking to each other (and some to themselves).

Jake LaMotta in The Hustler (1961) - he played the bartender in bus depot bar.

Sugar Ray Robinson in the Towering Inferno (mid 1970s?) - he played the security guard.

Lee Oma in On the Waterfront (early 1950s?) - he played a bartender.

gilgamesh wrote: ↑04 May 2020, 11:56

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑04 May 2020, 10:48 Evander Holyfield's cut out in Friends

He's not cut out of an episode of Fresh Prince of Bel Air though.

wouter wrote: ↑05 May 2020, 06:18

gilgamesh wrote: ↑04 May 2020, 11:56

He's not cut out of an episode of Fresh Prince of Bel Air though.

I think he meant an episode of Friends featured a cardboard cutout of Holyfield. If I remember correctly Buster Douglas had a cameo in the Cosby Show, Who's the Boss once featured Tommy Hearns and Ray Leonard was in Married with Children.

Verdi wrote: ↑05 May 2020, 07:08 Gary Mason was on a Celebrity special of Gladiators and randomly he was in an old episode of 'Gamesmaster' that I watched recently.

IRONFIST wrote: ↑05 May 2020, 05:54

Alguiffer wrote: ↑04 May 2020, 12:46 Interesting and fun thread, thanks.
Can't remember what I had for dinner yesterday but some of these old timer's film appearances ring clear as a bell to me:

Willie Pep in Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) - he played a patron in the boxing/wrestling bar hangout where boxers and wrestlers were taking to each other (and some to themselves).

Jake LaMotta in The Hustler (1961) - he played the bartender in bus depot bar.

Sugar Ray Robinson in the Towering Inferno (mid 1970s?) - he played the security guard.

Lee Oma in On the Waterfront (early 1950s?) - he played a bartender.

Cheers old boy. Are you sure SRR was in The Towering Inferno? I've seen it several times and never remembered him being in it, O.J. Simpson was the main security guard.

wouter wrote: ↑05 May 2020, 06:18

gilgamesh wrote: ↑04 May 2020, 11:56

He's not cut out of an episode of Fresh Prince of Bel Air though.

I think he meant an episode of Friends featured a cardboard cutout of Holyfield. If I remember correctly Buster Douglas had a cameo in the Cosby Show, Who's the Boss once featured Tommy Hearns and Ray Leonard was in Married with Children.

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑05 May 2020, 06:44

wouter wrote: ↑05 May 2020, 06:18
I think he meant an episode of Friends featured a cardboard cutout of Holyfield. If I remember correctly Buster Douglas had a cameo in the Cosby Show, Who's the Boss once featured Tommy Hearns and Ray Leonard was in Married with Children.

I just realiased Gil didn't understand what I meant.