Screenwriter Bruce Trampler is also a Hall of fame boxing matchmaker and former Major League baseball player agent. He graduated with a journalism degree from Ohio University in Athens (alma mater of director Betty Thomas, writer Joe Eszterhas, and actors Ed O'Neill, Piper Perabo, and Paul Newman). He went to the same high school as Zach Braff, Elisabeth and Andrew Shue, Lauryn Hill, Roy Scheider, and 1943 Academy Award winner Teresa Wright.Upon graduation, worked for boxing manager Angelo Dundee, who handled Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard. While working at New York's Madison Square Garden, Bruce was the matchmaker for boxer Tony Danza, before he became an actor.Bruce is now boxing matchmaker for promoter Bob Arum's Top Rank, Inc. in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he helped guide the careers of Oscar De La Hoya, George Foreman, Manny Pacquiao, Sugar Ray Leonard, Floyd Mayweather, Johnny Tapia, Buster Douglas, Ray (Boom Boom) Mancini, and dozens of other world champion prizefighters.Foreman presided at the wedding of Bruce and wife Laura (Smith). They have one son, Steven, who is a realtor. Bruce was inducted in the World Boxing Hall of Fame in 1999, and into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, NY in 2010. Show less «