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Boxing Life Stories

Season 4: #26 Frank Stallone

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Summary

Frank Stallone has been involved with boxing his whole life. From mimicking a Jack Dempsey haircut when he was 10 to knowing and forming friends with legends of the sport, including Muhammad Ali, Dempsey himself, Jimmy McLarnin, Vinny Paz, Ike Williams and many more. Yes, his ultra-famous brother Sylvester made more headlines, but Frank has had a superb career in his own right and boxing has never been far from it. He penned music for the Rocky franchise and here shares thoughts and memories of the movies, talks in great depth about boxing history and the memorabilia he's collected, what it was like being ringside for the big fights in Philadelphia in the 1970s and much more. There are stories from his career as a musician and actor but it's his love of boxing that shines through in this entertaining, funny and timeless interview.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I said, Vinnie, we're gonna do this fight scene.

0:02.1

So, you know, when you come in, I'll back off and you go,

0:04.3

yeah, no problem, Vinnie, you know, Vinnie, you know.

0:06.7

Yeah, no problem.

0:08.1

This one, he's still had his flat nose and all.

0:10.3

He's a deer guy, I love Vinnie.

0:12.6

I'm telling you, Triss, maybe an eighth of a second.

0:17.7

He was on me, had me pinned against the wall.

0:20.1

I couldn't move, because his career

0:23.1

had kind of nose dive, you know,

0:25.0

and he really couldn't get the movie done,

0:27.5

which to me, Rocky I and Rocky Balboa are my favorites,

0:32.0

because it's kind of like the book end, you know what I mean?

0:34.3

Like Adrian's dead.

0:35.8

And I thought his acting was superb in Rocky Balboa.

0:39.7

But it was like Rocky I, because the budget was small.

0:44.1

He had to even put his own money into it.

0:45.9

No one believed that he was 60 years old, you know what I mean?

0:49.2

So that movie's very sentimental.

0:52.7

So he calls me one day, brother.

0:55.5

I said, oh, yeah, so I was going on mega's.

0:58.4

I'm doing this movie about Bucks,

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