http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/bo...t-Seymour-sleeping-rough-California-park.html The fighter who lost a controversial boxing bout with Hollywood star Mickey Rourke is homeless and was ‘paid to throw the fight', MailOnline can exclusively reveal. Elliot Seymour, the man who lost to Rourke on Friday, is a homeless drifter who trained at the same Hollywood gym Rourke and was paid to fly to Russia to make the actor 'look good’. Seymour, who at 29 is 33 years younger than the 62-year-old actor, went down in the second round of the fight. He had a shocking record of losing nine of his 10 previous professional bouts. In an exclusive interview, a source close to Seymour’s family, said: 'It was clearly a fixed fight. The whole bouncing off the ropes, hands down, punches were not landing and they were intentionally hitting each other’s gloves. 'There are people at Wild Card gym who know that Elliot’s in a really terrible situation and pretty much living on the streets, these are Mickey Rourke’s people who Elliot’s been around and known for some time. 'I’d be surprised if they didn’t know something about his situation but they have decided to put him in the ring against Mickey Rourke. 'I think it was just an ideal situation where Elliot has a title, he’s desperate and clearly his boxing career isn’t going anywhere and he’s pretty much living on the streets, so for him it’s a win because gets off the streets for a while. 'One of the well known boxing reporters writing about the fight said they might as well have got somebody who was sleeping on the subway and it would’ve been a better opponent, well what he doesn’t know is that’s pretty much what happened.' Rourke was famously trained by Freddie Roach, who owns Hollywood's Wild Card gym, when he turned to boxing midway through his acting career. The legendary coach's most decorated fighter is boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao. LATINA FAG-HAGS. "SEE-MORE CUM", aged 23.
Elliot had a "Title"? Ah, probably one of those useless trinkets the Klits have been carrying around for decades. :stir:
Boxrec didn't even have the fight in the records last I checked, so I assumed it was just an exhibition anyways. Anyhow, Mickey gets paid to "act" all the time. What's one more? It's still better then the last Nicholas Cage movie.
This article was written by a hater unable to come to grips with the reality of Rourke's hydrogen bombs to the flanks
Rourke is a plastic paddy if ever there was one... a half Irish, half mutt bum from upstate (aka Canada)... He once walked around Belfast in a protestant neighborhood showing off an IRA tattoo, under the ignorant assumption that this would be seen as a positive thing (this would be like showing off a PLA tattoo in Tel Aviv outside of a synagogue) ... Even in Catholic neighborhoods, this would be seen as fucking idiotic... The guy is a fucking moron
yeah, he's a big dummy I'll say this for the fucked-up looking motherfucker, though, he's a pretty good actor
no lie luckily for him, the people there were more amused by his retardation than anything else and he was not harmed
I thought his fights when he was younger looked fixed too. I remember he hit one guy and the guy flew across the ring like he got hit by a cannonball.
I heard prior to taking the dive, Oscar was seen in the bum's corner giving him advice on how to properly sell the dive.
That's just his raw punching power. He has more natural force in his fists than a young George Foreman.
I remember a quote from Kim Basinger, saying something like, making out with Mickey Rourke in the movie "9 1/2" Weeks, was like making out with a filthy ashtray that never bathed. Maybe his opponents feel the same way. Any way to avoid another clinch at center ring.
"Hey, you ever watch the Mickey Mouse Club? 'Cause you know what today is? Today is Wednesday. It's anything can happen day. "
:bears: I agree Rourke is a good actor. He was good in Barfly, and even recently in the Wrestler. And needless to say he was excellent in Angel Heart. Angel Heart is a classic, I feel it's underrated and under recognised.