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Mickey Rourke

I tried to change my name for the fights, but the only way they could pay me money was if I used my own name. I wanted to change my name to, like, Romeo something-or-other, and they said, "No, we can't do that. We've got to use Mickey Rourke. " Because they paid me a lot of money to go over to Europe and Asia to fight.

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