Quote Originally Posted by jbirdy
man i heard many moons ago when tyson was in the prime of his debt that he was considered for the part of the opponent in rocky 6. that was when he was considering doin the porno with jenna jameson. it would have been much better than tarver (even though mr t's character clubber lang was based on tyson).
Dude Rocky III came out in like 1982 before anyone knew who tyson was. Clubber Lang was based on Ernie Shavers, a huge powerpuncher from that time who actually was supposed to play Clubber (the part had been written essentially FOR Shavers) had he not gotten so aggressive during prefight "sparring" with Stallone and busted the Italian Stallions ribs up. After that SLy decided to get an actor instead who knew a little bit about fighting, hence Mr. T. But yeah, if i was given a chance to do a porno with Jenna J or get my ass beat on film by an aging geriatric Rocky, it would sound like bawwwn-chicka-wahhhhwwwahhhhhh-bom-ba-bom ba- bawwwn-chicka wowww-woww-wahwahwahhhh (my best text impression of porno music, sad i know). But yeah. Tyson was never a basis for Lang's character, but he would have made a really cool Rocky VI opponent. They should have used him and then dubbed Darth Vader or Samuel L's voice in for Mike's lispy oompa loompa voice. That woulda been tight.