Where Are They Now: Chuck Wepner
https://tss.ib.tv/boxing/tss-where-are-they-now-chuck-wepner/ Articles of 2009 Published 18 years ago on March 23, 2009 By John James Professional boxing could use a few more men like Chuck Wepner . At a time when the sport faces its biggest identity crisis in decades, and continues to lose market share to the rising popularity of no-holds-barred MMA leagues like UFC, the ghost of old school boxers like Wepner looms large. Wepner was nicknamed the ‘ Bayonne Bleeder ’ after a bout with vicious Sonny Liston under the hot lamps of the Jersey City Armory . Liston went to work on Wepner’s face so bad, that by the tenth round, Wepner’s nose and cheek were broken. In the end Wepner had sprayed ringside reporters and fight fans with so much blood, he needed 72 stitches to stanch the flow . In his professional career Chuck Wepner compiled a record of 35 wins (17 by knockout), 14 losses and 2 draws. And he squared off against some of the hardest men ever to lace up the gloves, men like George Fo...