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Homeless Pasadena Boxer Says He Threw Fight Against Mickey Rourke

Published on Tuesday, December 16, 2014 | 7:37 pm
 

 

 

The 29 year-old homeless boxer living on the streets of Pasadena who became “famous” by suspiciously losing to 62 year-old American actor and ex-boxer Mickey Rourke in a fight in Moscow now says he was paid to take a dive.

Elliot Seymour, Rourke’s opponent, is a professional boxer with a record of nine losses and only one win. He was described before the Nov. 28 fight against Rourke as having been  homeless for 18 months.

Seymour gave an interview to entertainment website TMZ on a sidewalk on West Green Street in Old Pasadena to say he did indeed take a dive.

A source close to the Seymour family said Elliot sleeps at the Memorial Park in Pasadena. Seymour is also said to be a patron of a Starbucks branch in South Pasadena. The staff and customers at this Starbucks were quoted as saying Seymour was “well-liked”.

Seymour also writes posts about being homeless on his Facebook page.

During the interview, Seymour confessed the fight was rigged but felt Rourke had nothing to do with that.

“So … his team told me to go down in the second …. told me to, you know, to come out the first round feel it out and in the second round catch a body shot … ,” Seymour confessed.

Seymour believes “as far as i know Mickey had no knowledge of this. He was in the dark. Mickey is a stand-up guy, I think he’s a nice man. A great actor.”

He also said he was specifically told not to hit Rourke in the face, which he obeyed during the exhibition bout held at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow. Rourke “knocked-out” Seymour in the second round.

Both fighters wore red trunks. Rourke’s trunks, however, had the Spanish phrase, “Guapo Siempre,” (“Always Handsome”) embroidered onto the back of the garter belt.

The ring floor was also colored red. Even the ropes were an alternate red and white. Not to subtle a reminder of which country both guys were fighting in.

Rourke’s trainer denied the dive, and said Seymour will change his story to make more money.

One of Seymour’s a family members, however, told media the bout was “clearly a fixed fight” and that Seymour was “paid to lose.” Seymour was said to have been paid just $3,000 to take the dive.

Once rumors of a dive began to surface, Seymour was adamant he didn’t lose the fight on purpose and that Rourke beat him fair and square.

As to why he lost so early on against a fighter 33 years his senior, Seymour said he had only had one month to train.

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