TIL that 'Rocky' (1976) was inspired by the true story of Chuck Wepner, a local boxer from New Jersey who was set up for a dream fight with Muhammad Ali. Wepner quit his job to train full time.

realitista@lemm.ee · edit-2 7 months ago

TIL that 'Rocky' (1976) was inspired by the true story of Chuck Wepner, a local boxer from New Jersey who was set up for a dream fight with Muhammad Ali. Wepner quit his job to train full time.

bus_factor@lemmy.world · 7 months ago

Are you European? Some websites in the US can’t be bothered to implement GDPR and just geoblock all of Europe instead. You probably can’t access homedepot.com either.

Successful_Try543@feddit.de · edit-2 7 months ago

It does work in Germany, so it’s not about GDPR. Home depot doesn’t work btw.

Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works · 7 months ago

Australian.

andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun · 7 months ago

Sometimes it’s not about GDPR and more about “we get no benefits from this area because we have no presence there but we get plenty of DDOS.” Source: had to do this at my $DAYJOB.

TIL that 'Rocky' (1976) was inspired by the true story of Chuck Wepner, a local boxer from New Jersey who was set up for a dream fight with Muhammad Ali. Wepner quit his job to train full time.

TIL that 'Rocky' (1976) was inspired by the true story of Chuck Wepner, a local boxer from New Jersey who was set up for a dream fight with Muhammad Ali. Wepner quit his job to train full time.

Chuck Wepner: Meet the Heavyweight Boxer Who Inspired 'Rocky'

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