Mickey Rourke

[llamas1]

I saw some show the other day about Hollywoods worst plastic surgeries... Mickey Rorke was one of the victims.... On the show some "wink wink" expert claimed he got his face beat in while he was boxing and the surgery was to fix the damage....

The dude only had 8 fights and 20 rounds total..... Seems he wasn't in it long enough to sustain any lasting damage......


I also heard somewhere he had a really good left hook, any truth to this either?

[ИATAS]

yeah, Freddie Roach trained him.

He fought as a teenager as well, then got back into boxing after he was a star. He had broken his nose and his cheekbone.

Rouke began his amateur boxing career at the Boys Club of Miami at age 12. He fought as a bantamweight through welterweight under his birth name of "Phillip Rourke". He had a mauling style of holding and hitting, shoving and pushing. He continued his amateur boxing career at the 5th Street Gym where he fought in the Police Athletic League Amateur boxing program.

In 1969, at the 5th Street Gym, Rourke sparred with former world welterweight champion Luis Manuel Rodriguez, who was in training for his title match with Nino Benvenuti. Rourke reportedly received a concussion in that sparring match. Rourke received yet another concussion fighting in a 1971 Golden Gloves tournament. He was told by doctors to take a year off and decided to retire from amateur competition. From 1964 to 1972, Rourke had compiled an amateur boxing record of 20-6 with 17 knockouts. He was disqualified 4 times and lost 2 decisions. (According to his Internet Movie Database biography, Rourke won 12 straight first round knockouts as an amateur).

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