Rocky Baboa was in fact based on a real fighter.

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If rocky was based on Chuck Wepner, how would a fighter based on Chuck Norris look?

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Fictional characters doesn't mean you're not inspired or at least partially based on real life people.

Examples:

Vito Corleone was inspired by Carlo Gambino.

Nino Brown was inspired by Felix Mitchell and the Chambers Brothers.

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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.

Mason Dixon.

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Mason Dixon.

Exhibition fight.

Stallone knows boxing history pretty well, so it would be strange if he made an error like that.

Was it 22 or 23 losses going into that fight?

I have to see that movie again

[kayjay]

upon further review the kd was bull****

The KD was legit, but Wepner wasn't that good.

I don't see how anyone can seriously doubt the KD, Ali is pulling back straight and gets hit on the way out. His momentum brought him down.

It doesn't really matter where his feet were, and anyway you can't tell anything about the feet from the TV shot.

[KingTito]

i already knew this, but there may be some who didn't.. it's pretty interesting

[sterling]

ah man alot of ****** comments in this thread lol can people stop repeating that chuck was based on balboa and ali was based on creed? its gettin annoyin since he said it in the first post why do u need to post it over and over again.