Mickey Rourke begged his boxing coach not to give up on him
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ani-Staff
By Super Admin
London,
Apr
23
(ANI):
American
actor
Mickey
Rourke
has
revealed
that
he
almost
did
not
make
it
as
a
boxer,
and
that
he
had
to
beg
his
coach
Freddie
Roach,
to
give
him
a
second
chance.
Roach,
who
is
currently
training
Manny
Pacquiao
for
his
upcoming
fight
with
Brit
Ricky
Hatton,
had
refused
to
work
with
Rourke
in
1990
because
he
was
not
committed
or
disciplined
enough
to
be
a
good
fighter.
"I
came
out
to
Hollywood.
I
was
here
for
seven
days
(and)
he
showed
up
in
the
gym
one
day
in
seven....
I
ripped
him
so
bad
he
actually
cried," the
Daily
Express
quoted
Roach
as
saying.
Even
'The
Wrestler'
star
remembers
the
dressing
down
he
got
from
the
top
coach,
which
led
him
to
beg
the
trainer
to
reconsider.
"Freddie
came
into
the
gym
one
days
and
he
goes,
'Listen,
I
don't
train
people
to
lose
fights;
you're
not
running,
you're
not
doing
this,
you're
not
doing
that.
I'm
going
back
to
Las
Vegas'," Rourke
recalled.
"I
was
making
all
kinds
of
excuses
because
my
head
was
crazy...
I
was
in
tears.
Freddie
packed
his
bags
and
went
back
to
Las
Vegas.
"Freddie
humiliated
me,
embarrassed
me
and
reduced
me
to
the
fact
that
I
was
not
giving
100
per
cent,
I
was
not
being
a
professional
and
I
was
setting
myself
up
to
not
be
as
good
as
I
could
be,"
he
stated.
Rourke
refused
to
give
up,
and
kept
on
calling
up
Roach.
"He
called
me
every
day
for
30
days
and
then
finally
I
said
to
him,
'OK,
if
I
come
back,
the
next
day
you
have
off
is
the
one
I
give
you',"
Roach
said.
"I
think
he
had
discipline
in
his
life
for
the
first
time
ever,"
he
added.
Rourke
quit
acting
and
trained
to
become
a
professional
boxer.
Roach
coached
him
for
seven
of
eight
fights
before
Rourke
retired
from
the
ring
unbeaten.
He
won
half
his
fights
by
knock-outs.
(ANI)