Jan 29 2009
Mickey Rourke Not To Wrestle
Well, this probably won’t come to a big shock to anyone, but Mickey Rourke has turned down the offer made to him to wrestle Chris Jericho at Wrestlemania 25. Some people may be scratching their heads right now because they might be trying to figure out since when did Mickey Rourke become a wrestler anyway?
He isn’t. He just played one in the movie The Wrestler, and he made a joking in-character statement about wrestling at the event, but it was just all in good fun. The actor is now focusing on his acting career. A career that has come back to life because of his role in the The Wrestler. Will we see Rourke walk away with an Oscar?
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he was actually trained as a boxer.During his teenage years, Rourke focused his attention mainly on sports. He took up self-defense training at the Boys Club of Miami. It was there that he learned boxing skills and decided on an amateur career. At the age of 12, Rourke won his first boxing match as a 118-pound bantamweight, fighting some of his early matches were fought under the name Andre Rourke. He continued his boxing training at the famed 5th Street Gym in Miami Beach, Florida, where Muhammad Ali began his career. In 1969, Rourke, then weighing 140 lbs., sparred with former World Welterweight Champion Luis RodrÃguez. Rodriguez was the number one-rated middleweight boxer in the world, and was training for his match with world champion Nino Benvenuti. Rourke claims to have received a concussion in this sparring match.[6]
At the 1971 Florida Golden Gloves, he received another concussion in a boxing match. After being told by doctors to take a year off and rest, Rourke temporarily retired from the ring. From 1968 to 1973, he compiled an amateur record of 20-7 (17 knockouts), which included wins over Ron Carter, Charles Gathers, and Joe Riles.[citation needed] At one point, he reportedly scored 12 consecutive first-round knockouts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Rourke