Six weeks to change your life.
Pictured below is Sylvester Stallone with the 6ft 5in former marine and heavyweight boxer, Chuck Wepner.
I am guessing you’ve never heard of Chuck Wepner and that’s okay.
But Charlie ‘Chuck’ Wepner is actually the real Rocky Balboa.
He is the man who inspired Sylvester Stallone to write the screenplay for the original Rocky movie.
In March 1975 the stony broke actor, Sylvester Stallone sat down to watch Chuck Wepner take on Muhammad Ali.
The purse for the title fight was $1.6million.
Ali got $1.5m.
Wepner got $100,000.
It was commonly assumed that Ali would crush Wepner who was dismissed as a total no-hoper.
Ali, (think Apollo Creed) boldly claimed that he would knock Wepner out in the first round.
Few dared to disagree.
Ali was so confident he barely trained for the fight.
In contrast, while Chuck’s share of the fight purse was minuscule compared to Ali’s, it still represented the biggest pay day of his career.
For the first time ever, Chuck was able to train full-time.
In preparation for the fight, he hired the services of Bill Braverman, a trainer and cutman and they spent eight weeks in the Catskill Mountains outside New York.
Think about that.
Eight weeks of full-time training, totally dedicated to getting leaner, fitter and stronger.
When Chuck Wepner came down from the Catskill Mountains, he was a different man and fighter to the one who went up them eight weeks previously.
The fight took place on the 24th of March, 1975.
Ali’s pre-match predication of a first round knockout went out the window.
In fact, just like the Rocky movie, after surviving the early barrage, Chuck Wepner threw everything at Ali.
To the shock and amazement of everyone, he won the second, third and fourth rounds.
Stunned into action, and annoyed by some of Wepner’s tactics, Ali went on the offensive.
He pummelled Chuck. But the brilliant Ali couldn’t put him down.
Dismissed as a no-hoper and a loser before the fight, Wepner went to the dark place. His courage, defiance and pride turned the fight into a gruelling epic.
The bout went the full 15 rounds. With only 19 seconds left on the clock, the heroic Wepner was eventually stopped.
Chuck Wepner may have lost the fight. But in his heroic performance he won the admiration and respect of those who watched him battle for his life over those 15 rounds.
And of course, one of those viewers was Sylvester Stallone who has ensured that Wepner’s story is now the stuff of Hollywood legend.
But it wasn’t those 15 rounds in the Richfield Coliseum, Ohio which changed Wepner’s world.
It was his decision to spend eight weeks in the Catskill Mountains which transformed his life and legacy.
Prior to his fight against Ali, Wepner ran the roads in the morning. Then he went to his work, selling liquor to pubs and restaurants. After that, he worked out in his local boxing gym.
Those eight weeks in the Catskill Mountains transformed Chuck Wepner.
And that’s what I want you to do.
I want the next six weeks to transform you.
I want you to go into the Catskills.
I want you to totally dedicate yourself to getting leaner, fitter and stronger.
Six weeks to change your body.
Six weeks to see what you can truly do.
Six weeks to change your life.
Don’t underestimate what you can achieve in six weeks.
You’ll certainly not know unless you have the courage and guts to give it a go.
Think of Chuck Wepner.
Think of Rocky.
Go into the Catskills.
Six weeks.
Six weeks to change your life.
PH
To see footage of the first fight between Rocky Balboa and Apollo Creed, click on the link below.
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