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Robert DeNiro, Kevin Hart, Sylvester Stallone, Alan Arkin, Kim Basinger & Pete Segal)

Actors Robert DeNiro, Kevin Hart, Sylvester Stallone, Alan Arkin, Kim Basinger and Director Pete Segal from the movie Grudge Match chat with Matt Schichter in New York.

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Episode #630 · Robert DeNiro, Kevin Hart, Sylvester Stallone, Alan Arkin, Kim Basinger & Pete Segal)December 2013 · 00:11:16

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0:06We're playing this game. The website for Grudge Match has a poster maker where you can put other people's faces on Stallone De Niro's body Okay And put them together as fighters. So what I've done is I've gone through the history of boxing movies found a bunch of fighters And I thought we'd get everyone to pick who would win said fights. Will Smith and Ollie Wow or Mark Wahlberg in the fighter Well, did they have time to train? They have time to train. This is peak fighting condition Will Smith? Will Smith? I think it's Wahlberg. Wahlberg Mr. Niro? Yeah, my best. Yeah. Well, first of all, can I just say Will's doesn't have a neck and So because he lost his neck through some bad accident, I would have to go with Mark Wahlberg He still has a neck. Yeah, the neck factor. Neck factor John Boyd in the champ as Billy Flynn

0:54Or Louis Gossett Jr. in Diggstown as Honeywell. Well Mark John Boyd. Yeah, boy Actually, he's very good when he's in the champ. Yeah, he's gonna move it. He's a good boxer I'm a little John Just cuz he got a J in his name What was that guy doing? I don't know. That's what Louis Gossett Jr. has got the J in the junior But that has no That has no real bearing on it. It does. J means he can throw a hook A hook Okay That was great. That was great thinking I would say void because void in those days was a maniac actor. I mean he would he would I think He went he went over the top Very he went very not over the top, but he went very far. I said probably boy. He's got a J at the end of his name Junior

1:48Okay, well Louis Gossett Jr. is already lost because what a terrible makeup job that is look at that You know he looks like a hobbit actually all these guys do that's Here it's very hobbit like it's pointy So it's Lugoss it as a hobbit or who said John Boyd John Boyd I would I would say Lugoss it would win that all right because he's been through more. That's the first vote for him today Yes, okay, not fighters, but I thought we do it anyway Lenin or McCartney. Oh, I don't want to see them fighting That's a good answer I'm gonna go for carton. It wasn't me the one I'm had a J so that was just a decision John Lennon Oh The John Lennon for sure

2:37And he's his name is Mo Betta they give you On the website that you can't change you did they just plug nicknames in I Man that is totally a tie Wow Well Lenin would have to win but he looks more like Shemp from the three stages I think with a back over what is that is or is that a Unibrow? I did it very quickly this morning didn't I'm apparently yes, okay? You have a winner I would go with the Shemp Michelle Rodriguez in Girl Fight or Hillary Swank in million-dollar baby Oh Now look at the artwork you did on Hillary Swank now she looks like she had her head smushed in a bite

3:28And she had like some neck from one of those creatures from the Hobbit again. It's another Hobbit reference. It's Warner Brothers I'm gonna go with Michelle Michelle Rodriguez. Yeah, wow that would actually be a really good What's with Michelle Rodriguez and she's there's a girl that did a movie that's Soderberg directed Is that her this oh maybe that could be a Soderberg film. I don't know it's from 2000 so it's possible She's a real fighter well, she's an actress, but she plays a fighter in the movie I go I'm not going for I'm gonna go whoever the woman was in the Soderberg Soderberg I go with her over any of the guys too look at you she's something else over me We're not there yet. We got that one coming up

4:19Here's another J for you James Franco in Annapolis or Christian Bale in the fighter Christian Bale Annapolis Wow, there's a poll. Yeah Well just because you said Annapolis I'm gonna go with Christian Bale I'm back to one of your films from back in the past Garth or Wayne that's hilarious. Oh my god I think it's be Garth big the shit. Oh, sorry out of him Vicki Bale oh Domino fatale Vicki bail be Chris Farley oh wow or mr. Sandler oh Wow again Sandman would be actually happy because he has a jawline there so a little bit Adam's gonna be happy there

5:09Let's see Chris well Chris has a large bruise over the right side of his forehead Okay, I'm gonna have to go with Farley on that one and he'll be very happy you know looking down that he actually has abs So that's nice here we go go back a little bit Paul Newman and somebody up there likes me Wow Where James Earl Jones in the great way hello? There you go now obviously you took the Paul Newman from a bottle of his dressing no I didn't but it's sad same Yeah, okay. I'm gonna have to go with Darth Vader James Earl Jones James Earl Jones Yeah James Earl Jones. I don't see his wind being that strong Voice Bernie Ross or Rambo

6:17This is for you Bob Vito Corleone or Travis Dickel Vito Corleone Vito Russell Pro in Cinderella man Denzel Washington in Hurricane oh Boy since Denzel lives in my neighborhood even though he tells some fanciful stories about me coming to his house Let me know so we'll forget okay. Yes Denzel ends up yeah Oh again unfortunate Photoshop on Denzel. Let's let's look around. Yeah that one looks a little more natural I'm gonna go with him with Russell Crow Russell Crow both of them would win, but they'd be dead No, really they'd be dead out of all that you've said Both of them will kill each other that's the best fight so far

7:04They would kill each other and somebody would get up and have the last swing and I don't know who it would be But he would die too and then he'd die No Just the end he just does like a samurai and then he turns he's already whacked his leg off or something or whatever and then No, he'd bleed the other one would bleed to death and would see him crawl up and both of them And then would pull back and they'd both be dead this whole story because because Russell Crow yes and Denzel yes Because the way they approach things Jeff Bridges in Fat City or Sam Jackson in resurrecting the champ. I'll go Sam Jackson All right. Oh my god. It'd be a tie. Okay. All right. We're tied God that's a good one Jesus

7:51We think I'm not sure I mean he's got a probably Sam Jackson. Yeah, okay He's good now Now see now that's not a boxing face his eyebrows up He's looking like he's had a cocktail and again. He's missing a neck So because of that I'm gonna give out of sympathy. I'm gonna go for Sam Jackson Sam Jackson all right the big one for the movie Rocky. Yeah, ooh and a little hangout in there have to do it quickly Wow Or Jake Lamonta Wow, so you Actually go back to the other side. Yeah, you actually failed putting slice face over slice face That's that's the sad part there very looks it looks like Mumminshauns meet something from Phantom of the Opera. I'm gonna have to go. I'm gonna have to go with Bob on that Who went to take the amount of Rocky? Yeah?

8:39Yeah, I keep telling Rocky Rocky because I can write it Still on that's what he said. Yes. I said why did you accept Through the grapevine that the Nero when he was training for that could have been a professional for what put the He did I'm sure I'm gonna go with Michelle lover Drago Rocky beat the shit. Oh, I got that's three Yes, I think okay. I didn't really know Jake Lamonta. Okay. Oh, no no no no no no no you're not talking about didn't yet You're not talking about him. Yeah, you're talking about these two but in their in their movies from the side I know but you're talking about Jake Lamonta against yes against Against right yeah, yeah, maki woulda killed cool

9:27Kevin Hart. I like your nickname free glove that the website generator made me or a young Alan arkin It looks very much like George Clooney in this photo Wait a minute are you George Clooney god that is me isn't that great with the hair you very Clooney So who want to go you two were to spar I'm gonna go with you. I'm gonna go with you. I can't I'm like I never fought anybody I don't want to tell people that I didn't fight anybody this girl named Michelle Tastes up she caught hell you hear me? That's all right. Don't tell them by that. I had good I had one guy once one guy got came back So you've tackled me all evening and then came back stage to tell me why you hit him. I hear that second city

10:15Yeah, I tell you one of the scenes I ever did any heckled me all the way through it They came back stage to tell me why and I Tell you what I got this guy one time He we got in a fight and the worst part about the fight is while we were fighting my shoe came off True story, but one of my shoes came off so it fights over the worst part about the fight was me asking people Where my shoe My shoe To fight This is like this is like 1985 86 I remember the guy fought I was like hey man. Do you know I lost I definitely lost my she flung

11:02Yeah Took me an hour five my shoe true story and keep

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