Vinny Paz’s story soon to be a movie. WARWICK, R. I. Doctors told him that he would never fight again and that he was fortunate he wasn’t a paraplegic. They drilled four holes into his skull and fitted him with a halo, a metal- rod brace to immobilize his head. Advertisement. But the Pazmanian Devil had other ideas. He secretly lifted weights and worked out, despite the searing pain. Within a year, he returned to the ring and went on to win three more titles. Paz’s story will be turned into a movie, “Bleed for This,” which is scheduled to begin shooting next month in Rhode Island. He is thrilled.“I’m going to be the main inspiration in the world for people, and how cool is that?” he says. Vinny Paz was severely injured in a 1. A visit to his Warwick, R. I., home is like a treasure hunt. His modest, pink- trimmed, single- family home is loaded with souvenirs of a warrior who never quit. Paz, 5. 1, who was formerly known as Vinny Pazienza, is in the process of remodeling the house after pipes burst and caused water damage. There are stacks of photos piled on the dining room table, some stuck together. Simpson, Paz and Tom Brady, Pete Rose, Barry Bonds, Hugh Hefner, Stevie Wonder.“Here’s Ali,” says Paz. You’re the reason I started boxing.’ And he pulled me in and whispered, . Scorsese made “Raging Bull,” for which Robert De Niro won an Academy Award for portraying prizefighter Jake La Motta. Nasty.”He laughs while looking at a photo of himself and Sylvester Stallone. After he saw it as a 1. I was in, hook, line, and sinker.”. Grant Pollard/Invision/APMiles Teller will play Vinny Paz in the film about him. Paz gets pumped up when he talks about Miles Teller, who will play him in “Bleed For This.”“I love the kid,” says Paz. He’s going to be the next big kid on the block.”Aaron Eckhart will portray his trainer, Kevin Rooney, and Katey Sagal is cast as his mother. Ben Younger is the director. Watch Full Movies Online Streaming 2016. The Vinny Pazienza Story; Paz. The inspirational story of World Champion Boxer Vinny Pazienza. The inspirational story of World Champion Boxer Vinny Pazienza who. Bleed for This (2016). Playing Vinny will be. Vinny Pazienza Story. Watch Bleed for This Movie Online Full HD Version directly from your PC or tablet in best quality. Paz; The Vinny Pazienza Story. Online Film 2016 Paz: The Vinny Pazienza Story Watch ChainPaz; The Vinny Pazienza Story; Paz; Bleed for This Full Movie. Online Film 2016 Paz: The Vinny Pazienza Story WatchedPaz moves to a wall of photographs that explain the title of the movie. There’s more blood in these pictures than in any episode of “True Blood.”“It’s the Wall of Pain, bro,” he says. He lost a fortune gambling and in the stock market, he says. He was arrested multiple times for DUI, and also for assault, disorderly conduct, and domestic violence. I was going around Rhode Island and people were looking at me in disgust. It was the worst moment of my life.”He acknowledges that he likes to drink.“I’m not ashamed of it, I’m not proud of it, it’s just what I like to do,” he says. Paz has a wine coming out called Five Times Better, a nod to his five championship titles. A merlot? Paz isn’t sure.“Red wine,” he says. Paz says his father fled Italy after pitchforking a Nazi soldier who stole cattle from his farm. She climbed the stairs and made everyone dinner before asking for a ride to the hospital. Her knee was shattered in eight places. He trained with Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield at the Olympic headquarters in Colorado and had 1. He captured the World Boxing Association junior middleweight title with a TKO of Gilbert Dele in the 1. Oct. 1, 1. 99. 1. He was on top of the world, only the second boxer in history to win both the world lightweight and junior middleweight titles.“I thought I was going to be the next white Muhammad Ali,” he says. After a midday workout, Paz climbed into the passenger seat of his friend’s Camaro. They were doing over 5. Paz wasn’t wearing a seat belt, so he held on for dear life.“My last thought was I’m never going to defend my world title,” says Paz. A truck narrowly avoided them.“Then a big town car hit us,” says Paz. Whiplash.”The Jaws of Life were used to cut him out of the wreckage. EMTs stabilized him, placed him on a stretcher, and took him to the ambulance. Then they wheeled the driver of the other vehicle toward Paz’s ambulance. He was angry.“He’s saying, . Doctors were worried that he might not be able to walk because he had cracked two vertebrae and a third was mere centimeters from his spinal column. Paz threw a tantrum and insisted the doctor was wrong. Defying the doctors. After weeks in the hospital, Paz went home to a hospital bed in his parents’ house. He would stare at himself in the mirror, with the contraption on his head.“I said, . I just can’t stay like this.’ ”Four days later, while he was home alone, he sneaked down to the basement and stared at the weights. And I immediately dropped them. Pain shot through my body. My head started pounding around the screws.”He sat down for 1. I get back up,” he says. I throw ’em over my shoulder and start doing shoulder presses with them. I sucked up the pain.”His mother eventually got wise to him, though. Are you out of your mind?’ ”Still, friends took him to a gym to accelerate his workouts. Then he went to the doctor’s office for X- rays, which looked good. His doctor told him to keep doing whatever he was doing.“Then I started lifting heavier weights,” says Paz. Three months later, on Valentine’s Day, the halo was removed. Paz refused a pain- killing injection.“I’ve probably had a thousand stitches in my face,” he says, “but this was the most pain I’ve ever had.”. He was cleared to box again and won his next nine fights.“Listen, I won 5. Paz. I’m sooo lucky.”Rough night in Vegas. Paz’s fights weren’t pretty, but he was fearless.“People would think I didn’t have good defense because I was blood and guts,” he says. People would think I was getting killed, but I had good defense. You gotta have good defense to last.”His style was flamboyant. Sometimes he wore horns or face paint into the ring. He wanted to hate them. If he couldn’t find motivation to hate, he compensated.“I had to have no sex and nine cappuccinos before the fight to get me pissed,” he says. He says the 1. 98. Roger Mayweather for the WBC world light welterweight title in Las Vegas nearly killed him. First, he had trouble making the 1. I had to go back in my room, put the heat on, the shower on hot, hot, hot,” he says. It was the first time it ever happened to me.” After the fight, Paz collapsed from the beating and the dehydration and was hospitalized.“I’m lying there and I literally said to myself, . Stallone was in the first row, . The nurse said to my father — and I could hear this — . Pazienza, we’re losing your son, he’s only got one heartbeat every six seconds.’“When she said that, he grabbed me and started shaking me violently. I heard him in slow motion, he’s going, . And I came back.”Battling Duran. Paz later beat Hall of Famer Roberto Duran twice.“I don’t brag about it, because he was, like, 9. Paz, laughing. At the press conference before their first fight, Paz was hoping that Duran, one of his heroes, would say he’s a tough kid. Instead Duran fired away in Spanish.“His interpreter gets up there and says, . He’s going, fist in air, . He still wears his shirt open, with the Tasmanian devil dangling from his chest, and he still tells the ladies he’s 3. He says his life is looking up again, thanks to the silver screen. He says he will have a cameo in the film, probably as a bartender.“I’ve done my thing here,” he says. That’s for goddamn sure.” Stan Grossfeld can be reached at grossfeld@globe.
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