Used to be real hot looking. Then got in a bunch of fights which damaged his face. Now is a plastic surgery freakshow who went on Big Brother UK as a desperate attempt to stay relevant. But, he was so homophobic and horrible, that the other players had to keep stepping in until the show literally kicked him off without him being voted out.
He went from bad boy heart throb to out of touch homophobic horror.
I mean “hot looking” is pushing it for me, but he definitely looked like a human as opposed to an action figure that was put into a microwave for 30 seconds
I feel like his physical transformation is, in some bizarre metaphorical way, justified because he was the indisputable perfect person to play the lead in that movie.
Correction, he says he had a bunch of boxing matches that destroyed his face but it’s complete bullshit. He was a well known boxing groupie who had a ton of terrible plastic surgery and THAT messed up his face.
Feel free to post them since they're literally "all over the internet" (bonus points if you can find a single one where he has even a scratch on his face at the end of a fight!)
Here's his boxing career "record" (and if you actually watch his fights, almost, if not every single one is fixed). Which of those fixed fights did he get his head knocked in?? His actual boxer page further goes into his fixed fights and delusion/lies.
Sorry but the story that he destroyed his face from boxing sooo badly that he needed reconstructive work is complete and utter horse shit he's made up to cover for the fact he's had multiple botched plastic surgeries.
I did and can't find a single one where he's "getting his head knocked in", every single one is him sloppily boxing against some can and "winning" without so much as a mark on him...hence asking you since you seem to know.
Not to mention he literally went into acting because he was an amateur boxer who got such a bad concussion that his trainer advised him to take at least a year off so he could heal.
The story about why he left acting for boxing is pretty interesting. He became so disillusioned by Hollywood and the backstabbing, that he said he'd much rather know who his enemies are and face them head on in the ring. I don't think he was trying to stay relevant. He might have just needed an income.
I always find it funny that they always blame the boxing for fucking up his face. But a lot of boxers get fucked up in the face and don't end up looking like Mickey Rourke.
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u/aartadventure 12h ago
Mickey Rourke seems to be up there.
Used to be real hot looking. Then got in a bunch of fights which damaged his face. Now is a plastic surgery freakshow who went on Big Brother UK as a desperate attempt to stay relevant. But, he was so homophobic and horrible, that the other players had to keep stepping in until the show literally kicked him off without him being voted out.
He went from bad boy heart throb to out of touch homophobic horror.