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[June Lands]

I saw him in a movie he made years ago..... Boy, has he aged very badly on top of horrendous plastic surgery. He really was good looking guy at one time. Maybe he went through a windshield or something?

[chessylady]

It's a stunt for $$. It's sad he has been reduced to this. Geriatric boxing is not the coming thing.

[Annabellethecat66]

I wonder if he went on that show called Botched, they could fix his face.

Someone really messed it up.  Very sad compared to the way he used to look.  He sure had a terrible plastic surgeon!

[GenXmuse]

Well, he definitely has a good face for boxing. 

[fortune]

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@The Monkey on My Back wrote:

Wow. I'm impressed.

From BBC:

Mickey Rourke wins exhibition boxing match

Hollywood actor Mickey Rourke has won an exhibition boxing match in Moscow after returning to the ring for the first time in 20 years.

The Wrestler star, 62, defeated Elliot Seymour - a former California Golden Gloves champion 33 years his junior.

Rourke sent Seymour to the canvas twice in the second round before the referee stopped the fight.

The Oscar nominated actor was an amateur boxer before finding fame in Hollywood movies such as 9 1/2 Weeks.

The organisers of the match said the boxers were receiving "large amounts of money" in fees but declined to give details.

"I'm very happy to be back to the boxing ring. Thank God for letting me do this", Rourke said ahead of his fight with 29-year-old Seymour.

He refused to go into detail about his motivations for returning to the ring, but told Russian TV boxing had "sort of saved me from myself".

The actor is reported to have lost more than 33lbs (15kg) for the fight, weighing in at 179.2lbs (81.3kg), the same as his rival.

Seymour is ranked 256th in the United States and before the fight with Rourke had one knockout and nine losses in 10 bouts.

Rourke returned to boxing as a professional in the 1990s and was undefeated in eight fights, with six wins and two draws.

However he suffered a number of facial injuries, which required surgery and changed his appearance.

In 2008 Rourke won a Bafta and Golden Globe for his role in the film The Wrestler, which told the tale of a former wrestling professional who decided to return to the sport.

He was also nominated for a best actor Oscar, but lost out to Sean Penn in Milk.

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Here are the before and after pictures of Mickey Rourke

So sad!!!!!

[Say Nay]

He was hot when he was younger. He's unrecognizable now.

[SharkE]

I'd stay out of the ring LOL

[KALLIE]

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@The Monkey on My Back wrote:

He was hot when he was younger. He's unrecognizable now.

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I believe that's him from the movie "Body Heat" - one of my favorite movies!

[DoneTryin]

Picking up a discussion from Nov 2014?

I saw him on Jimmy Kimmel last fall (2015) & other than having aged as we all do, he looked OK.  Talked about spending a lot of money on dental implants because he'd broken so many teeth when boxing.

[itiswhatitis]

I don't know what happened to him, but maybe it can be fixed.  I think he is also having financial troubles.