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Plot summary
Bayonne, New Jersey, is home to Chuck Wepner, a heavyweight with a chin that absorbs punishment and a habit of reckless behavior. He sells liquor for a living. His second wife, Phyllis, and his daughter, Kimberly, live with him, and Al Braverman trains and manages him. The title belongs to George Foreman, and Braverman hears from Don King that a championship bout could come Chuck's way. Ali wins that fight instead, so the bout Wepner is offered is a 1975 meeting with Ali, promoted around the difference in race between the two fighters because he is the lone white man in the heavyweight top ten. Braverman takes him upstate to a hotel to train.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Chuck (2016)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Chuck Wepner claimed his 1975 title fight with Muhammad Ali inspired Sylvester Stallone's title character Rocky Balboa; Stallone, who wrote Rocky soon after the fight, has never confirmed it.
- Liev Schreiber always wanted to portray Chuck Wepner and had been attached to the project for five years before he was confirmed in the role in October 2015; Naomi Watts was cast as Wepner's third wife, Linda.
