{"id":861,"date":"2003-12-20T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-20T13:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=861"},"modified":"2022-01-01T16:10:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T21:10:34","slug":"sleeping-with-the-champ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=861","title":{"rendered":"Sleeping With the Champ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2003\/z122003chuck.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>Chuck Wepner<\/strong> has received a bit of press lately since he filed a <strong>lawsuit<\/strong> against <strong>Sylvester Stallone<\/strong> for a percentage of the profits made off of the <strong>&#8220;Rocky&#8221;<\/strong> movies. While <strong>the lawsuit is laughable<\/strong>, it&#8217;s not as funny as <strong>this true story<\/strong>&#8230;<\/span><\/span><strong>Wepner<\/strong> fought <strong>Ali<\/strong> in <strong>1975<\/strong>. Before the fight <strong>Wepner<\/strong>, known as the <strong>&#8220;Bayonne Bleeder&#8221;<\/strong> told his wife. &#8220;Go out and buy some expensive lingerie because after the fight you&#8217;ll be sleeping with the <strong>Champion of the World<\/strong>!&#8221; <strong>Ali<\/strong> won the fight. A bloodied <strong>Wepner <\/strong>walked back to his dressing room&#8230;&#8230; where his wife asked, &#8220;So, do I go to <strong>Ali&#8217;s room<\/strong> or does he come to mine!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Wepner has received a bit of press lately since he filed a lawsuit against Sylvester Stallone for a percentage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28708,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions\/28708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}