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A former professional heavyweight boxer featured in two “Rocky” movies was found this morning after being reported missing Wednesday, Mountain View police said.
Pedro Osvaldo Lovell was found safe in Sunnyvale this morning after he had last been seen leaving his residence on Escuela Avenue in Mountain View at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday while going on one of his daily morning walks, Mountain View police Sgt. Saul Jaeger said.
More details about how and where he was found were not immediately available, Jaeger said.
Lovell, whose nickname is “KO King,” had an impressive record as a professional boxer and played the character Spider Rico in the first “Rocky” film in 1976, written by and starring Sylvester Stallone, police said.
Born in 1945 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he also appeared in the 2006 film “Rocky Balboa,” one of the sequels to “Rocky,” according to the film website imdb.com.
Early in his seven-year boxing career as a heavyweight, which started in 1970, he fought bouts in San Jose, Oakland and San Francisco, according to the boxing records database website boxrec.com.
In one of his major fights, he lost in a technical knockout in the fifth round to Ken Norton, then the North American Boxing Federation champion, in a heavyweight contest broadcast nationally from Las Vegas on Jan. 10, 1976, according to boxrec.com.
He scored first-round knockouts against nine fighters and finished his pro career in 1977 with 18 wins, 3 losses and 2 draws.
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He played Spider Rico (in Rocky’s first bout in “Rocky”) and returned in the last “Rocky (Balboa)” movie.
http://rocky.wikia.com/wiki/Spider_Rico
I thought the article was going to be about a dog.
Is 69 years old considered elderly? I thought that word was reserved for frail people aged 95+.
“Elderly” is not a word defined legally, so it is subject to individual interpretation.
My computer’s definition of “elderly” is “old or aging” and it follows up with the following analysis from Wikipedia:
“A Pew Research Center study of 2,929 Americans, age 18+, found that they hold very different definitions of old age. Respondents under 30 said that old age begins at 60, but respondents 65+ said 74.
Most Britons define old age as starting at 59 according to a survey of 2,200 people in the UK. The under 25s reckon 54 as the beginning of old age. The 80+ define old age as starting at 68.[13] Another survey concluded that most Britons define the onset of old age as almost 70. Europeans on average set the start of old age at 62.”
Sure, some people think elderly/old/aging would start at age 60, others place that threshold at a much higher range.
In the same way, older people probably define “young” in different ways.
Personally, I’ve never heard of your 95+ definition.
I believe the term is inexact as it is not a legal definition (unlike “senior” or “juvenile”) or clearly defined (like “teenager”).