Carl Weathers at the NBC Universal winter press tour in 2017. AFP via Getty Images “ You can’t make Happy Gilmore without Chubbs Peterson, it doesn’t exist,” Newacheck, 41, told Collider.

The real Barker died two years ago in 2023, at the age of 99. But Sandler pays tribute to their epic fight in Happy Gilmore 2, with a new fight, this time between Gilmore and his longtime rival ...

Carl Weathers had a massive part,” Sandler divulged. “I would talk to Carl, and we were excited, and then Carl passed away. We had to rewrite a lot of the stuff, and even what the story was.

Adam Sandler has revealed that the sequel to Happy Gilmore had to be rewritten following the death of his co-star Carl Weathers. The Rocky and Predator star died last year, at the age of 76.