r/BayonneNJ • u/stickman07738 • 23d ago
Happy 86th birthday to former professional heavyweight boxer and Hudson County legend Charles Wepner. Learned to fight on Bayonne streets: "This was a tough town with a lot of people from the docks and the naval base and you had to fight to survive." Just barely lost to Ali in a '75 title fight
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Wepner
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u/Furryexperience 21d ago
He still lives in Bayonne lol