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The Bad Dads review 'The Bleeder', a biopic about Chuck Wepner's life and career in boxing.

This week the Bad Dads take a pounding with The Bleeder (2016), the Liev Schreiber-led biopic of Chuck Wepner — the Bayonne brawler whose improbable 15-round fight with Muhammad Ali inspired Sylvester Stallone to write Rocky. The film charts Wepner's rise from club fighter and liquor delivery man to brief, cocaine-fuelled celebrity — and his long, self-inflicted fall back down again. The Dads discuss: · Liev Schreiber's committed central performance and the st...

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Host: Bad Dads

Topics covered

• biopic
• boxing
• celebrity downfall
• film review
• sports history

Keywords

• The Bleeder
• Chuck Wepner
• Liev Schreiber
• Muhammad Ali
• Rocky
• boxing
• biopic

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Books & works: Rocky

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