Rocky Baboa was in fact based on a real fighter.

[Bea5T]

lol wepners a nobody

[Boogie Nights]

lol wepners a nobody

to spend 15 rounds with muhammad ali and knock him down in the process you gotta be somebody

[Verstyle]

Think before making a thread about one of the biggest boxing movies ever in a boxing forum, a big one at that. haha. Wrong move. As if alot of us didnt know that.I mean ****, that movie I think came out in 76'

[THE REED]

Think before making a thread about one of the biggest boxing movies ever in a boxing forum, a big one at that. haha. Wrong move. As if alot of us didnt know that.I mean ****, that movie I think came out in 76'

Alright no need to be a prick... I was merely responding to this comment...

I always thought Rocky was a fictional character? Did Rocky Balboa actually exist? News to me.

I read that in this thread

http://www.boxingscene.com/forums/showthread.php?t=171400&highlight=cotto

So I figured well, maybe not everyone knows this piece of info... So I made a thread about it...

Thanks.

[Boogie Nights]

Alright no need to be a prick... I was merely responding to this comment...



I read that in this thread

http://www.boxingscene.com/forums/showthread.php?t=171400&highlight=cotto

So I figured well, maybe not everyone knows this piece of info... So I made a thread about it...

Thanks.

naw, man you did good, this is information, that's what these forums are for.

since we talking about rocky movies, i noticed a little detail. in the first movie, when he enters the ring to fight appolo, one of the announcers talks about the fighter's record and mention's rockys', and i believe he said that rocky only had 2 losses.
in rocky balboa when buffer calls out his record he had like near 20 losses on his record. how the hell did balboa loose so many fights considering that after his rematch with creed he did so well for himself

i guess sly missed that one huh, small technical error in the script. in the first fight we had an underdog, in the final movie we had one BIG ASS underdog lol

anyone else notice it??

[moofo]

This is pretty common knowledge (at least among boxing fans).

[squealpiggy]

Rocky is a fictional character inspired in part by Chuick Wepner.

[BennyST]

Not everyone knows...

Matter of fact in the cotto gomez buildup 3 thread, there were people saying Rocky was a fictional character.

So..........

I thought this was common knowledge and everyone knew all this already. Just on a side note though: The fight with Ali was the dirtiest, rattiest piece of crap from a 'pro' fighter I think I've ever witnessed! Wepner should have been disqualified about ten times over as well as Ali for retaliation! How Stallone or whoever got inspired by that piece of complete crap is just simply beyond me.

I guess I can understand admiring his determination but everything else about him made me despise the guy. There have been a million and one guys ten times more deserving of admiration and inspiration, especially for a blockbuster movie, than him.

Edit: Whoops, just read the above posts. Don't worry Reed, not trying to sound like a prick by pointing that out again. Didn't read the posts first. There are probably many, many folks that don't know and would like to. I know it will make a whole lot of people go and watch that fight between them

[Flab]

Just another fact to prove Ali was an overrated bum.

[apollo creed]

The movie was based on the Ali wepner fight.

Rocky = Wepner

Apollo = Ali.