--- title: Mickey Rourke Boxing: Wrestler Star Defeats 29-Year-Old description: Actor Mickey Rourke, 62, defeated a 29-year-old opponent in an exhibition boxing match in Moscow Friday, the BBC reports. canonical: https://time.com/3609835/mickey-rourke-boxing/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-28T21:17:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T02:26:45.594Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Mickey Rourke Boxing: Wrestler Star Defeats 29-Year-Old og:description: Actor Mickey Rourke, 62, defeated a 29-year-old opponent in an exhibition boxing match in Moscow Friday, the BBC reports. og:url: https://time.com/3609835/mickey-rourke-boxing/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta5c8bedaa54754be/69876b7b3c163956b1450481/mickey-rourke-1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Mickey Rourke og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Mickey Rourke Boxing: Wrestler Star Defeats 29-Year-Old twitter:description: Actor Mickey Rourke, 62, defeated a 29-year-old opponent in an exhibition boxing match in Moscow Friday, the BBC reports. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta5c8bedaa54754be/69876b7b3c163956b1450481/mickey-rourke-1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Mickey Rourke Out-Boxes 29-Year-Old in Return to Ring by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Nov 28, 2014 9:17 PM UTC  US actor Mickey Rourke kisses his glove after beating his opponent Elliot Seymour of the United States, during their professional boxing match at the Luzhniki Stadium, in Moscow on Nov. 28, 2014. US actor Mickey Rourke kisses his glove after beating his opponent Elliot Seymour of the United States, during their professional boxing match at the Luzhniki Stadium, in Moscow on Nov. 28, 2014.Denis Tyrin—AP by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Nov 28, 2014 9:17 PM UTC Actor Mickey Rourke, 62, defeated a 29-year-old opponent in an exhibition boxing match in Moscow Friday. _The Wrestler_ star hadn’t participated in a boxing match in more than 20 years, the BBC [reports](http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-30254007), when injuries resulted in corrective surgeries to his face that significantly altered his appearance. While Rourke didn’t explain his decision to return to the ring, he has said that boxing “sort of saved me from myself.” “I’m very happy to be back to the boxing ring. Thank God for letting me do this,” he said before the fight. Rourke’s opponent, Elliot Seymour, is a former California Golden Gloves champion. \[[BBC](http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-30254007)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3609835/mickey-rourke-boxing/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3609835/mickey-rourke-boxing/"},"headline":"Mickey Rourke Out-Boxes 29-Year-Old in Return to Ring","datePublished":"2014-11-28T21:17:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T02:26:45.594Z","description":"The actor says the sport 'sort of saved me from myself'","url":"https://time.com/3609835/mickey-rourke-boxing/","keywords":["celebrities","Boxing"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta5c8bedaa54754be/69876b7b3c163956b1450481/mickey-rourke-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta5c8bedaa54754be/69876b7b3c163956b1450481/mickey-rourke-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Mickey Rourke","caption":"Mickey Rourke","creditText":"Denis Tyrin—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3609835/mickey-rourke-boxing/","name":"Mickey Rourke Out-Boxes 29-Year-Old in Return to Ring"}}]}] ```