By Mark Vester

Actor Sylvester Stallone told contactmusic, that he was in a very bad financial state when shopping around the original Rocky script to studio bosses. The actor remembers being so broke that he was forced to sell his pet dog on the street. Stallone only had $106 dollars to his name at the time.

"I had to sell my dog outside a 7-Eleven," Stallone said. 

Once the movie script was actually sold, produced and became a hit, Stallone was still not rolling in a bed of money. He was nominated for an Oscar, and did not have enough money to purchase a decent tuxedo for the Academy Awards event. Stallone's appearance was so bad that the limo driver taking him to the event felt sorry for him.

"I wore a rented tux with a big, frilly shirt, which was open to the second button. I had a wife-beater on under that, so it was doubly bad. I was a cornball right off the potato wagon. Even the limo driver said to me, 'You better put on a tie. Here, you can borrow mine.'"

The sixth installment of the Rocky franchise makes it's debut in thousands of movie theaters in the month of December.