The Bayonne Bleeder got bronzed. Chuck Wepner, the heavyweight slugger who inspired Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky Balboa character when he shockingly knocked down Muhammad Ali in the ninth round of their ...

Chuck Wepner, the ham and egger professional boxer who nearly beat heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali and thus inspired the Sylvester Stallone series of Rocky movies, was honored today with his own ...

ESPN Films presents "The Real Rocky," at 8 p.m. Tuesday, featuring the colorful story of Chuck (The Bayonne Bleeder) Wepner, the inspiration for the fictional Rocky Balboa. Here is a story I wrote ...

The rough-and-tumble boxing champ from the streets of Bayonne who inspired the iconic “Rocky” film series and two other movies will never be knocked down again. City officials announced last week ...

Chuck Wepner, aka The Bayonne Bleeder, and the man who inspired Sylvester Stallone to write "Rocky," is about to get a biopic all his own. Liev Schreiber will play Wepner in "The Bleeder," which will ...