Other boxers were in the ring far more often than Mickey, yet didn't need this kind of facial restructuring.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9309811/Mickey-Rourke-68-flashes-tattoos-smile-lunch-Beverly-Hills.html
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/1433228/we-take-a-look-at-just-how-much-mickey-rourke-has-changed-over-the-years/
The boxing has nothing to do with his current appearance, It's well known that he has extreme body dysmorphia.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/mickey-rourke-he-was-a-shy-mummys-371696
Pretty sad, too, because he was probably the most handsome leading man in Hollywood during the 1980s. Talk about a perfect face.
It would have been interesting to see how he aged naturally. Guys like Don Johnson and Sam Elliot still look handsome well into their late age, but poor 'ole Rourke... the drugs really addled his brain into a picayune predicament.
Yeah, I think you gave two good examples in Don Johnson and Sam Elliott. don johnson though, wow, when he was 35 in "Miami Vice", I swear (and i prefer not to swear:-) he could've passed for a teenager!
shareAgreed, but he kept making movies inbetween bouts (which meant more surgery) which entailed 'plastic' being pummeled (not skin)
He never looked beat up in a movie, just more plastic (to correct his last fight....which in turn re-corrected his last surgery)
Quite literally (given his 'other' career.....a vicous circle)
Well, He used to lead with his face
NOT a good move for a boxer
When he was boxing he led with his face
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