Now everything is beginning to make sense. Last Friday Mickey Rourke KO’d his 29-year old opponent Elliot Seymour during there match in Russia. Rourke hadn’t fought professionally in over 2 decades and looked every bit of 62 years old when he stepped into the ring.
Yet, he dominated Seymour and earned a KO. Now it seems like there’s more to the fight than what we saw on Friday.
The Daily Mail reports that Rourke’s opponent has been homeless since May 2013 and was paid to take a dive.
The family source, who asked not to be named, spoke out because they are worried Seymour has mental health issues and has been exploited by the the fight’s organisers.
They said: ‘All these headlines Mickey Rourke beat someone half his age… yeah he did but you’re not telling them the real story, the real story is he’s homeless and desperate and he will probably go back to living on the streets when he gets back. People have no clue about that.
‘There’s so much more to the situation than people know, and there’s so much that’s more important than the fact it was fixed, which is the fact he doesn’t have a home and he’s got some mental health issues.’
Fighters at Seymour’s gym also spoke about the validity of the match up.
MailOnline also spoke to a source at Wild Card gym who claimed the Moscow exhibition bout was rigged and went further describing Seymour as a ‘professional opponent’.
The gym source said: ‘Elliot trains here sometimes. He’s a professional opponent. Meaning you pay him to lose.
‘The fight was a joke… Mickey needs to stop pretending he ever was very good and just keep acting. It’s kind of an embarrassment really. Mickey throws punches so slow and infant could avoid them.’
People watched online & Rourke can probably land another movie role with the gained publicity, so I’m sure his camp sees it as a good investment.