I Don't Mind Getting Punched

Wrestlers Are All Pretty Busted-up By The Ends Of Their Careers.

I Had Some Things I Had To Fix. It Took Me 14 Years To Do It. But It Was Never Really Fun Back In The Day To Work With Directors Who Were A Lot Older And Were Like Authoritarian And Talking To You Like That.

I Get A Call, And It's Howard Bingham, And He's Got The Champ On The Line.muhammad Ali Didn't Remember Me From Being A Kid, But He Was Going, "yeah, You're In Bed, And You Want Your Mama With You . . ." It Really Helped So Much. He Spent 15 Or 20 Minutes On The Phone With Me. That's A Memory That I'll Always Cherish.

I Wanted To Change My Name To Romeo Florentino. Romeo Florentino - That's A Good Fighter's Name.

By The End Of The Shoot [of Wrestler], My Trainer Was Pushing Me Up Three Flights Of Stairs To My House And Holding My Arm Like I Was An Old Cripple. I Had Three Mris In The First Two Months Of Working On The Film. I Felt Like It Really Was Over By The Time We Started Shooting The Movie.