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.
It may strike uncomfortably close to home for a lot of them. Pro wrestling's an inherently weird business and attracts a lot of people who are sort of on the margins of society or are just sort of problemed. I interviewed Roddy Piper once and he said something like he never had a family so wrestling became his surrogate dysfunctional family. He was a very nice, soft spoken guy, by the way, the total opposite of his wrestling character.
Shhhh wrote: ↑04 May 2020, 12:34
Tex Cobb did loads. Spider Rico is also an ex heavyweight pro i think. Cant remember his real name tho
Spider Rico? He's a bum!
Also Joe Louis had a cameo in an episode of Quincy M.E. Jack Dempsey appeared in several silent films. If you start looking, you'll probably find every undisputed heavyweight champion since Dempsey has appeared in some sort of movie or TV show.
Doug Dewitt and Ray 'Boom Boom' Mancini also had smaller roles in that movie. Mancini looked in great shape I remember.
Mark Breland (+the ones mentioned) had a role in a few episodes in Miami Vice. One of the "main" actors, John Diehl, went 1-1-0 as a pro actually..
Yeah it seems like Mancini had a bout not long after the filming of that movie. Possibly against Camacho? So it would make sense he still looked in fighting shape.
Alguiffer wrote: ↑06 May 2020, 18:29
This morning on an episode of The Three Stooges "Grips, Grunts & Groans" that aired on local TV, boxer Tony Chavez was in a skit sparring with Curly.
I've seen that episode a million times. I always figured that was probably a real boxer, but I didn't know who it was.
He even has a line "The jokes on you isn't it!"
Except for with a very heavy Spanish accent.
He also knocks out all 3 Stooges with a roundhouse right
Mighty Atom wrote: ↑08 May 2020, 16:45
GOAT boxer/actor is clearly Victor McLaglen.
16-8-1 as a heavy but more importantly won an Oscar for best actor in the 30s
Salvador Sanchez played himself, albeit as world Junior Lightweight champion, in an American-Puerto Rican production named The Last Fight..Jose Torres and Don King also appear as themselves in this fine but forgotten film.
Thomas Hearns was in Married With Children.
Carlos Monzon made a few movies, notably La Mary.
Marvelous Marvin Hagler in Indio and Indio 2, two Italian films that really sucked.
Muhammad Ali played himself in The Greatest.
Nino Benvenuti starred in an Italian spaghetti western spoof ..can't remember the name but he was.
Sonny Liston played a cowboy is some movie...
Ray Mancini was in The New Monkees and a few films..
Ken Norton was in Mandingo
Victor Ortiz was in The expendables 3
Manny Pacquiao starred in some Filipino films
Max Baer had quite a film career (as did his son Max Jr.)
Roy Jones Jr., The Matrix
Joe Frazier was in Rocky
Archie Moore was in Huckleberry Fynn and in another movie they had on cable recently..
Jorge Paez played a version of himself in Zapatos Viejos, a Mexican classic of the 90s, he actually had a substantial role in this movie as Gloria Trevi's best friend (and I have met both in person, ha!)
Oscar De La Hoya was in an episode of Arli$$...(he had his car towed with him still on the driving seat!)
Lennox Lewis and Wladimir Klitschko had a fake fight in Ocean's Eleven...plus Lewis was in another movie as some sort of bartender or something...
What was his name the dude who fought Joe Frazier or George Foreman and was cast as the dumb bad guy in Superman 2?
Coley Wallace in the Joe Louis Story
Sugar Ray Leonard in tales of the Crypt and in The Fighter...
Vito Antuofermo was murdered by Andy Garcia in The Godfather 3..
Carlos Palomino was in The White Shadow as himself and later made many movies as an actor.
Danny Lopez I believe was also on a tv show during the 70s....
Sonny Liston (with Andy Warhol next to him) for TWA
Michael Carbajal for Emergency Chiropractors (a local Phoenix company)
Evander Holyfield for Diet Coke
Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. for an English learning program (the joke there being that he does not speak English) and for a local law firm in Phoenix
Oscar de La Hoya for the same English learning program (the joke there being that he was BORN speaking English!) and for McDonalds)
Marlen Esparza for McDonald's and Cover Girl.
Good list by BoxerBeetle the only correction is that Roy is in the 2nd Matrix movie. Possibly the 3rd one too, he's one of the ship captains of the human survivors like Morpheus or whatever.
He's in some cut scenes on some Matrix video game too, so he is a part of the Matrix universe, but I don't think he's in the 1st film which is easily the best of 'em.
AntonioMartin wrote: ↑09 May 2020, 05:28
Also as we are counting commercials:
Sonny Liston (with Andy Warhol next to him) for TWA
Michael Carbajal for Emergency Chiropractors (a local Phoenix company)
Evander Holyfield for Diet Coke
Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. for an English learning program (the joke there being that he does not speak English) and for a local law firm in Phoenix
Oscar de La Hoya for the same English learning program (the joke there being that he was BORN speaking English!) and for McDonalds)
Marlen Esparza for McDonald's and Cover Girl.
Recently Pacquiao for Hennessy and Canelo for Tecate beer I believe.
