Fighters who fight like Rocky!

I don't think compubox was around before 1986. They always say "25 years of compubox" so I'm guessing it started in the mid 1980s. PS I know this comment was a joke. Just wanted to drop some random info. LOL. Yeah, I said it cuz of how many jabs & power shots Apollo landed on Rocky and rocky still kept coming forward. Im sure Apollo's landing % was in the 90's. lol.

Rocky boxing scenes don't even come close to looking like anything believable...and yes I know Stallone has made endless millions of dollars doing it regardless so obviously people are buying it...but I think it's complete crap.

I'm just curious, whats the COMPUBOX stats look like with Apollo Creed vs Rocky in both fights? LOL I don't think compubox was around before 1986. They always say "25 years of compubox" so I'm guessing it started in the mid 1980s. PS I know this comment was a joke. Just wanted to drop some random info.

I'm just curious, whats the COMPUBOX stats look like with Apollo Creed vs Rocky in both fights? LOL

I always thought Bob De Niro was more convincing, and Jake La Motta said so. Jake was probably a sort of consultant. Since the movie was about him, he'd have to have been paid anyway.

I always thought Bob De Niro was more convincing, and Jake La Motta said so. The "fight"makeup was terrible. I thought that the "cuts" were going to fall off when he was saying and repeating whatever it was about not being knocked down or something like that. That little extract has been replayed all the time, and is the only part of the movie I ever saw. I'm not interested in phony reproductions of real fights that I saw myself when they were fought. There are never realistic to me anyway. Other than "Monkey on my Back" (The story of Barney Ross, which was a genuinely true story) some of the Rockie movies-which I liked because of the surrounding stories and characters-(except the unreal cyber Russian and Mr T), the only other boxing movie I've ever liked was "The Setup" in which Robert Ryan was the lead, and I put this movie #1. He was actually, it was said, a former boxer, although, like so many of these movie boxing scenes the punches iooked highly exaggerated with obviously phony staggering etc. But the story itself was so true to life. I knew of the sordid, poorly paid existence, the fixes, and also the result of overmatching a potentially top prospect, just to make a meagre living, and benefit a greedy manager, with the poor guys getting totally inadequate food, but didn't see the chicanery/skullduggery, although I knew it was well entrenched.

today katsidis and thats it, in the past lamotta for sure Don't forget Pawel Wolak. Micky Ward and Tommy Morrison were also very Rocky like

I always thought Bob De Niro was more convincing, and Jake La Motta said so.

Juan Manuel Marquez This is just stupid. JMM is a counter puncher with a lot of heart, rocky punching you back isn't exactly counter punching. If you know your boxing history/know the story of rocky than you know that sly saw wepner/Ali live and was inspired by it to write rocky. I'd saw the best answers are Ward/gatti/katsidis for fighters in the last decade.

espn 30 for 30 films about it tomorrow Yup. Im watching MNF.

I cant believe no one has mentioned Chuck Wepner.

fighters who fight like Rocky are fighters who we never hear about, the guy makes Margarito look like Pernell Sweet Pea.

The movie "rocky" was hardly even based on Rocky Marciano the fighter and as far as bar room brawler, i'd say the real rocky had underrated skill as a boxer to catapult him to 49 (43) - 0 -0

None of them fights like Marciano, they don't edge slowly in close, keeping very low, and aren't as strong. Marciano is far cruder than even the average 4-6 rd fighter today. More of a bar room brawler. Sorry, I looked only at the headline. Didn't think you meant a fictitious character, since this is a boxing site. My mistake, again, apologies. Don't think anyone could fight like Rocky Baboa, since no one could take such massive amounts of the obviously impossible punishment, and even walk around the hospital bed in less than a month a couple of months. in fact I'd say 100% of fighters would have been beaten to death long, long before the screen fights ended. That's why I can't become entranced with a screen fight without being very conscious all the time that it is impossible.

None of them fights like Marciano, they don't edge slowly in close, keeping very low, and aren't as strong. Marciano is far cruder than even the average 4-6 rd fighter today. More of a bar room brawler.

Juan Manuel Marquez

Vic "raging bull" Darchinyan. I'm sure lamotta would have no problem with this dude copying his nick name as he does fight like a bull.

today katsidis and thats it, in the past lamotta for sure

The real "rocky" Rocky Maricano Tony Canzanori (same hood my father grew up in) Willie pep "real name Guglielmo Papaleo" Carmine basilio "the onion farmer from upstate NY"

Michael Katsidis.