M. Rourke (right) faced Seymour Elliot (left) in Moscow. Photo: Reproduction/Twitter
Last Friday (31), actor Mickey Rourke returned to boxing at the age of 62 knocking out an opponent 33 years younger at an event held in Russia. Despite Rourke's achievement, the duel raised suspicions ever since it took place, due to the little resistance offered by the Hollywood star's opponent and the way he suffered the technical knockout – after two blows to the belt in the second round. This weekend, new information about the fight came to light and it confirms the suspicion about the fairness of Mickey's triumph.
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According to the British newspaper “Daily Mail”, the fight between Mickey Rourke and Elliot Seymour was set up and the opponent trains with the actor in the United States and received money to lose the duel. “There are people at 'Wild Card Gym' (a gym in Hollywood) who know that Elliot is in a terrible situation and practically living on the streets. They're Mickey Rourke's people, who Elliot has been hanging out with and known for a while now. Elliot is desperate and clearly his boxing career isn't going anywhere. He's living on the streets, so for him it's a victory, because he left the streets for a while,” said a source close to the defeated athlete.
According to the diary, the person, who asked not to be identified, is a family member of Seymour Elliot and decided to speak to the press because he was concerned about the fighter's mental condition. “All these headlines about Mickey Rourke beating someone half his age… Yes, he did it, but you're not telling the real story. The truth is that he is homeless, he is desperate and will probably return to living on the streets. People have no idea about this. There is a lot about this situation that they don't know and there are things even more important than the fact that this fight was arranged, like Seymour not having a home and having some mental problems”, he said.
At 62 years old, Mickey Rourke has an undefeated professional boxing record, with six wins and two draws. The duel against Semyour Elliot was not counted towards the actor's professional record, as it was an exhibition fight. In Hollywood, Mickey is a student of renowned coach Freddy Roach, who among other great names in the sport, counts multi-champion Manny Pacquiao among his pupils. Considered a “Sex Symbol” in the 80s, Rourke went through ups and downs in cinema, but returned to prominence at the end of the last decade, when he was nominated for an Oscar and won a Golden Globe for his performance in the film “The Wrestler”. , by filmmaker Darren Aronofsky.
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