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2023 Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame - Round 1

Johnny Walker

TV Show/Movie Appeared: Homeboy (1988)
Actor/Actress: Mickey Rourke
Why you should vote:: Seriously, we are all in for the character name alone.
Why you should not vote:: Boxers on the nominee list are flooded here. Did this character stand out enough? Probably not.
Although most people labeled Mickey Rourke as nuts when he gave up Hollywood for boxing, he was an accomplished amateur boxer and natural for the role of Johnny Walker (don’t you alcoholics love that name?), a movie he took three years before he temporarily gave up acting. Rourke just fit as the man one punch away from serious brain damage, exhibiting the kind of brooding sympathy that only he could deliver in the late 80’s. In retrospect, this was almost training for what would be his comeback role as Randy “The Ram” Robinson from “The Wrestler”, another nominee here, but this is a performance that while forgotten, might be worth a thought.