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Robert "Rocky" Balboa was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.He was the only child in a Roman Catholic, Italian-American or Italian immigrant family. [a] Rocky appears to be fully or semi-fluent in the Italian language; when Rocky is spoken to in Italian by his priest, Father Carmine, it is apparent that Rocky understands the language very well or fluently, including in a scene in which he ...
During Rocky's fight with Tommy Gunn, Rocky sees visions of Drago killing Apollo while believing he is about to suffer the same fate at Tommy's hands. Balboa is saved when he witnesses the ghostly, fragmented dream figure of his old trainer, Mickey, exhorting Rocky to get up and fight one more time, thus inspiring him to defeat Tommy.
Rocky IV is a 1985 American sports drama film starring, written and directed by Sylvester Stallone. [4] The film is the sequel to Rocky III (1982) and the fourth installment in the Rocky film series .
Stallone and Carl Weathers face off in the climactic bout of the original Rocky ... Five years after Rocky IV, Stallone planned to end the franchise in a permanent way with 1990's Rocky V, ...
The younger Stallone starred opposite his father in 1990's Rocky V as Rocky Jr. and continued to act in other movies over the years. He died of a heart attack at age 36. He died of a heart attack ...
Stallone was training with bodybuilder Franco Columbu about a month and a half before the “Rocky 2” shoot when he ripped his pec muscle right off the bone. “So, I go down, and it’s maybe ...
Apollo Creed first appears in the 1976 Oscar-winning film Rocky as the charismatic, intelligent, and undefeated 33-year-old World Heavyweight Champion.A planned bicentennial fight against number-one contender Mac Lee Green was scheduled for January 1, 1976; however, Green hurt his left hand in training, and other top-ranked contenders were either busy or claimed they didn't have enough time to ...
Sylvester Stallone is even more fighting mad about his lack of ownership in the “Rocky” properties.. After reading a report about a spinoff in the works involving his old screen nemesis Ivan ...