MR. T!!: (Lawrence Tureaud)  

Mr. T plays CLUBBER LANG who is a professional boxer fighting out of Chicago, Illinois and a one-time world heavyweight champion, having taken the title from Rocky Balboa only to lose it back to Balboa in his next fight. The character is very loosely based on a combination of Sonny Liston, Larry Holmes and George Foreman…During Rocky III’s intro, Rocky is shown easily defeating numerous contenders in a montage, during which Clubber is shown annoyed at Rocky apparently coasting through his title defenses.

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A frustrated Clubber decides to begin training to challenge Rocky and largely does so alone, and his methods bring results as he puts together a string of knockouts that makes him the number one contender. He finally goads Rocky, who is wanting to retire so he can spend more time with his family, into a match by trying to proposition his wife Adrian at a public event in Philadelphia. Clubber’s first defense of his newly won title comes against Rocky, who learns a newer, speed and finesse style from Creed in training for the fight. The champion, expecting the same Rocky he fought the first time, has trouble with his new style and exhausts himself throwing a barrage of early power punches. With Clubber breathing heavily after the second round of the fight, Rocky exposes his lack of conditioning and takes control of the fight by knocking out Clubber in the third round. Lang’s career results following the second fight with Balboa are unknown; outside of a replay of the final round in the beginning of Rocky IV, he was not seen in any of the four films that followed.

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After being a bodyguard for the people like Muhammed Ali, being a military policeman and amazing Clubber Lang role, his career landed him in the role of “BA” on the hit show  A-Team show. When asked why he no longer wears his pile of trademark gold the world was in awe…He gave up virtually all his gold, one of his identifying marks, after helping with the cleanup after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. He said, “As a Christian, when I saw other people lose their lives and lose their land and property…I felt that it would be a sin before God for me to continue wearing my gold. I felt it would be insensitive and disrespectful to the people who lost everything, so I stopped wearing my gold.” (source:wiki)