Former heavyweight Bayonne boxer Chuck Wepner will get his due as the inspiration for Rocky Balboa in the new ESPN documentary “The Real Rocky” premiering in October, TV officials said last week.

On a crisp autumn night in November, Henry Hascup, President of the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame, rose to the dais for the organization’s annual induction and awards banquet. With his booming Jersey ...

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 ...

Chuck Wepner wasn’t the worst fighter ever to be given a shot at a world championship. For all the accounts of his brave but failed challenge of Muhammad Ali 50 years ago, on March 24, 1975, that ...