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Mickey Rourke’s Boxing Opponent: Bout Was Fixed

Mickey Rourke
Mickey Rourke's boxing opponent claims he was paid to lose their fight

Mickey Rourke is on the defense today.

The 62-year-old actor and boxer's opponent in a match last month in Moscow, Russia, has told TMZ Sports on video that he was paid $15,000 to take a dive. The exhibition match against Elliot Seymour, 29, ended in the second round after Rourke threw multiple punches and the referee ended it. The fight was The Wrestler star's first in two decades.

"As far as I know, Mickey had no knowledge of this. He was in the dark," Seymour revealed to the website. "Mickey's a stand-up guy. I think he's a nice man, great actor. He didn't have anything to do with [the fix]. That was all his people."

At the time of the fight, the Internet's reaction was that it appeared staged, although some noted that Seymour had a 1-9 record going into the bout.

The Daily Mail was the first to report that Seymour threw the fight on Nov. 30. The newspaper's report also quoted a source close to Seymour's family, who said that he had been homeless for about a year-and-a-half before the fight.

"There's so much more to the situation than people know," the family source said. "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."

Rourke trained as a boxer in his teen years and competed professionally in the '90s.

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