Rocky Baboa was in fact based on a real fighter.

[dansapien]

Rocky Balboa was a REAL person/fighter.

There are sixth full length documentaries about him available at most stores.

[Hagler★]

you only just found out?

[shadeyfizzle]

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??

It was a techinical error in the script for that 1 line. But the whole Rocky storyline was based on him being a bum fighter with only a slightly above .500 record. Then was given the chance of a lifetime to be given a title shot against the world heavyweight champion as a late replacement. Several times in the 1st movie it mentioned him having 22loses before the line you mentioned. Then adding a 23rd loss in rockyIII when he lost to Mr. T. So statistically the storyline was correct throughout all 6 films. You just have to pretend you heard that line right to make sense.

[Malicious]

I just saw the newest Rocky the other day. Opinions? I thought when it wasn't gettin all relationshipy and actually focused on the fight game aspect it was pretty good. The utilization of the HBO crew and Tarver gave it a good realistic dimension. Also, during the intros they showed Rock's record and it said he lost like 20+ bouts. Didn't know Rock took so many defeats.

Edit: lol, post above me answered my last question.

[flipside]

old news mayn.

[dansapien]

The utilization of the HBO crew and Tarver gave it a good realistic dimension.

what do you mean REALISTIC DIMENSION!!!


it is real, rocky is real, its a documentary series.

[squealpiggy]

Rocky's record is 57-23-1 with 53 KOs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Balboa_(character)

[Thread Stealer]

It was a techinical error in the script for that 1 line. But the whole Rocky storyline was based on him being a bum fighter with only a slightly above .500 record. Then was given the chance of a lifetime to be given a title shot against the world heavyweight champion as a late replacement. Several times in the 1st movie it mentioned him having 22loses before the line you mentioned. Then adding a 23rd loss in rockyIII when he lost to Mr. T. So statistically the storyline was correct throughout all 6 films. You just have to pretend you heard that line right to make sense.

I thought the commentator in part 1 said "and he's lost 20 times".

Loss #21 would be the first fight with Creed, and loss #22 would be the first fight with Lang, where's loss #23?

Or if it was 22 losses throughout Rocky 1, then Balboa-Creed I is loss #23, and Balboa-Lang I is loss #24.

[Thread Stealer]

The Balboa/Wepner thing is the only one I've heard verified, but other parts were probably based on real people as well.

In part 3, with Rocky being protected and his manager/trainer refusing to fight Lang, and Rocky eventually insisting on it, that's similar to Patterson/Cus/Liston. Getting too popular and losing hunger can be any fighter, I think Stallone had Dempsey in mind with that one.

The scene in part 5 where Rocky has a flashback on Mickey saying "I'd be dead without you, but with you, I've got reason to live" is VERY similar to an interview Cus had when Mike was a teenage amateur, wearing some ****** hat.

[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.