From the AP Wire:
Stallone has said that he had been working on a screenplay about a
fighter when he watched Wepner, improbably, nearly go the distance with
heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali in 1975."What I saw was pretty extraordinary," Stallone said during a 2001
interview that became part of a "Rocky" anniversary DVD. "I saw a man
they call 'the Bayonne Bleeder' who didn't have a chance at all against
the greatest fighting machine supposedly that ever lived."
Now that is a boxing nickname.
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