During the early 1980s, when Sylvester Stallone was training to play Rocky Balboa in Rocky III, the actor gave careful consideration to using a real heavyweight boxer to play the part of James ' Clubber ' Lang. Stallone invited the hard-punching Earnie Shavers, who lost a world heavyweight title fight to Muhammad Ali in 1977, to spar with him. During their first sparring encounter Shavers was reluctant to hit Stallone with anything other than a jab, but after Stallone said to Shavers, ' C'mon Earnie, show me something real, ' Shavers hit him with a punch so hard that Stallone had to leave the ring to be sick in the toilet.
It's not that relevant, but I was reading something I had gotten for Christmas and remembered that paragraph.
It's not that relevant, but I was reading something I had gotten for Christmas and remembered that paragraph.
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