Small episode: "People's Daily Online, January 19th. Stallone was not afraid of the real world light heavyweight champion Tafel in the ring, but he repeatedly pushed Tyson's "challenge".
The world famous action movie star Stallone recently revealed to the media that former world heavyweight boxing champion Tyson had contacted him several times, hoping to play opposite him in the last series of the action blockbuster "Rocky" starring him. It's a terrible idea to have a "heavyweight" in the ring. After Tyson's constant requests, Stallone agreed to give him a small role in the movie's boxing scene.
Stallone said: "Tyson wants to be in the movie. Play against me, but I think it's a very bad idea. I know that although I'm not that young, I'm still too young to just die. I said to him: 'Thanks, but I don't think it's a good idea. Thank you so much. ' Later, he kept calling me and asking to fight me in the movie. "There was
no way. In the end, I reluctantly agreed to let him show a scene in the audience as an extra. After that, he never called me again. But when I was filming in the ring, he was there. Immediately I turned around and shouted to the crowd: 'Can you please get this son of a bitch out. If I let him over, he'll kill me.."
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