I mean, just listen to these tales from the Rocky series Sylvester Stallone recounted Monday night with Jimmy Fallon. In order to give some scenes that extra hint of realism, Stallone, not an actual boxer, agreed to take some actual punches to the face.
Stallone mentioned in a DVD extra commentary that he was actually hospitalized when Dolph Lundgren punched him for real. "Punch me as hard as you can in the chest." Next thing I know, I was in intensive care at St. John's Hospital for four days.
Sylvester Stallone decided that for the shooting of the fight, he and Dolph Lundgren should hit one another for real, so as to increase the intensity of the scene.
While the boxing matches are inspiring, bloody, and well-filmed, they aren't nearly as accurate as the fights in other movies, like the one at the end of Raging Bull. This pattern of unrealistic fights is true for almost every boxing match throughout the Rocky and Creed movies, except one.
No. Stallone was never a boxer. There are some boxers-turned-entertainers — Roy Scheider was a boxer prior to becoming an actor, as was Fred Ward, while Billy Joel won 22 bouts on the Golden Gloves circuit before quitting boxing in favor of music. But Stallone's boxing career was strictly fictional.
Sylvester Stallone And Dolph Lundgren Revisit Rocky IV Fight | Creed II Featurette
Why is Stallone mad at Rocky?
Stallone — who wrote the screenplay for the film in three days, before selling the rights to producers Winkler and Robert Chartoff — said his anger came from the fact that the original deal deprived him of an equity stake in the franchise, a longterm asset that could be passed to his children after his death.
While the story of his first film was partly inspired by a 1975 fight between underdog Chuck Wepner and heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali (which nearly went the 15 round distance despite the odds), the inspiration for the name, iconography and fighting style came from boxing legend Rocco Francis "Rocky Marciano" ...
Despite his status as the most famous movie boxer of all time, the Rocky franchise's Rocky Balboa is actually not a particularly good boxer - and it's actually a perfect fit for his character.
Only one of the Rocky/Creed movies tells us how long Rocky or Creed trained for a fight: Rocky 1. The fight in that movie was on New Year's Day, and Rocky signed for the fight a few days after Thanksgiving. So, he trained for about a month.
The impossibility of Balboa's victory over the much larger Ivan Drago might seem obvious, but it's actually not entirely unrealistic, as such results often occur in the world of boxing. However, Rocky IV's ending would not have happened as it did if the movie adhered to the rules of logic.
Rocky considers accepting the fight with Cane, but Adrian urges him to see a doctor. Rocky has suffered from brain damage caused by the head-trauma he received at the hands of Ivan Drago.. Because of his injuries, Rocky is forced to officially retire from boxing.
Fame and complacency soon cause Balboa to lose his title to young thug Clubber Lang ( Mr. T ), who inadvertently causes the death of Rocky's beloved trainer, Mickey (Burgess Meredith), before their first championship bout.
Rocky at first seems unaffected by Apollo's smear campaign, but his inexperience with money causes him to run into financial problems. Since he failed in the commercials that he did and Paulie got him his old job in Shamrock meat packing plant.
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.
“I was 178 for Rocky, and 200 in Rocky II. For Rocky III I was 163. For my next film, Rocky IV, I went up to 173. I like this weight, because it is a fuller, rounder look, more in keeping with the old Roman athletes.
Robert "Rocky" Balboa (also known by his ring name The Italian Stallion, played by Sylvester Stallone), is the title character and main protagonist of the Rocky film series. The character was created by Sylvester Stallone, who has also portrayed him in all eight films in the franchise.
How many miles did Sylvester Stallone run in Rocky?
Well, this would not be your average training run, mobs of children aside, as the run would have covered 30.61 miles. That's more than a marathon. And making their film debuts that day: 800 of Philly's finest youngsters. After the huge success of Rocky, Sylvester Stallone was uncomfortable in front of the camera.
Read on. (Note: ESPN Classic will be showing "Rocky" at 8 p.m. ET on Sunday.) In Reel Life: Rocky Balboa is a 30-year-old club fighter. In Real Life: Sylvester Stallone was inspired by Chuck Wepner, a 35-year-old club fighter who also happened to be the No.
His initial salary for "Rocky" was a modest $35,000, but with his contract guaranteeing him 10 points on the back end, he ultimately earned around $2.5 million due to the film's massive success.
It's clear after examining the careers of both fighters, that Rocky Balboa would defeat Adonis Creed, due to his track record of taking down undefeated boxing icons. Of Rocky's 57 victories, 54 are by knock out.
I mean, just listen to these tales from the Rocky series Sylvester Stallone recounted Monday night with Jimmy Fallon. In order to give some scenes that extra hint of realism, Stallone, not an actual boxer, agreed to take some actual punches to the face.
Sawing the wood gives Rocky a solid core workout, working his body in an untraditional way that he is unlikely to replicate in the gym. As the saw moves in front of his body, it causes trunk flexion and makes for an enduring exercise.
By the time Donnie meets Rocky in Creed, he's been funneling all his money into the restaurant he named after Adrian. As a result, he only has just enough to get by, and can't live the extravagant way he did in the past.
The Rocky Statue — a larger-than-life boxer — is one of Philadelphia's most famous pieces of public art. The fictional Rocky Balboa of Sylvester Stallone's Rocky movies was immortalized in bronze by artist A. Thomas Schomberg in 1980 for a scene in the film Rocky III.
Ivan Drago is an Olympic gold medalist and a boxing champion from the Soviet Union, who had an amateur record of 100–0–0 wins (100 KO). He is billed at 1.97 m (6 ft 5+1⁄2 in) and 261 pounds (118 kg).
