Apollo creed

He was the heavyweight boxing champion of the world before Rocky Balboa. Simply put, Rocky wouldn’t have had a career if it weren’t for Apollo. It wasn’t until a top-ranked challenger backed out on fighting Apollo at the last minute that he decided it would be a good publicity stunt if he took on a no-name underdog. He chose Rocky because he liked his fighting name, The Italian Stallion. But surprisingly, once they got in the ring, Rocky put up a real fight. He decked the champ in the first round, and became the first fighter to go all 15 rounds with Creed. Rocky lost by split decision. Rocky took the belt from Apollo. After Apollo spent a fair amount of time running his mouth, as he was known to do, Rocky finally agreed to a rematch, despite the fact that the bout with Apollo nearly left him blind in one eye. Their second fight was another slugfest, and both exhausted fighters went down simultaneously in the 15th round. Whichever one of them could get back on his feet first would be the champ … and that was Rocky. (After that fight, Apollo would retire.) Apollo trained Rocky for his comeback. When Rocky decided to take on Clubber Lang without the proper amount of training, he not only lost his belt, but he lost his longtime trainer, Mickey, who died. Seeing an opportunity, Apollo stepped in and offered to train Rocky back into fighting shape for his rematch with Lang. He trained in Los Angeles. To get Rocky out of his doldrums, Creed dragged him to his old stomping ground...

Carl Weathers as Apollo Creed in First appearance Last appearance Big Rumble Boxing: Creed Champions (2021) Created by Portrayed by In-universe information Nicknames The Dancing Destroyer The King of Sting The Count of Monte Fisto The Thane of Pain The Prince of Punch The Master of Disaster The One and Only Title World Heavyweight Champion Occupation • Boxer • Spouse Mary Anne Creed Children Unnamed son Unnamed daughter Relatives Amara Creed (granddaughter) Bianca Creed (daughter-in-law) Nationality Apollo Creed Statistics Weight(s) Nationality Born August 17, 1942 Died August 31, 1985 (aged 43) Stance Boxing record Total fights 49 Wins 47 Wins by KO 46 Losses 2 (1 loss in exhibition with Drago) Draws 0 Apollo Creed is a fictional Rocky films, played by Protagonist Rocky II) and views Creed with respect, pointedly refusing the prodding of a reporter to In Role in the series [ ] In the Rocky and Creed films, Apollo Creed is a heavyweight boxing champion who is a rival and later friend of Rocky Balboa. Rocky (1976) [ ] See also: Apollo Creed first appears in the 1976 Rocky as the charismatic, intelligent, and undefeated 33-year-old Upon reviewing the local boxers in Philadelphia, Creed is drawn to a club fighter named Both fighters are beaten, bloodied, and bruised by the end of the bout—Balboa with severe eye damage and Creed with internal bleeding in the abdomen. Creed gains a controversial split decision victory, and neither fighter wants a rematch, at least at that momen...

First appearance Created by Portrayed by In-universe information Nicknames The Siberian Express The Siberian Bull Death from Above Title Infantry Captain (Soviet Ground Forces) Occupation Professional Soldier Affiliation Spouse Ludmilla Vobet (divorced) Children Viktor Drago Nationality Ivan Drago Statistics Weight(s) Nationality Born ( 1961-01-05) January 5, 1961 (age62) Stance Orthodox Boxing record Total fights 32 Wins 31 Wins by KO 31 Losses 1 Draws 0 Ivan Vasilyevich Drago ( Иван Васильевич Драго, pronounced Rocky film series. He first appears in the 1985 film Rocky film series. Character biography [ ] Ivan Drago is an Ivan Drago was forced to leave Russia and move to Drago was married to another athlete, Ludmilla Vobet ( Rocky IV [ ] See also: Drago's trainers, Sergei Igor Rimsky (George Rogan) and Manuel Vega (James "Cannonball" Green), along with his wife Ludmilla (née Vobet) ( Former champion At the beginning of the fight, a confident Apollo dances around the Soviet boxer, flicking jabs at Drago. But then Drago connects with a series of violent blows, proving Apollo is no match for the younger and stronger Russian fighter. Drago even continues to attack Creed after the bell is rung to end the round, despite this being an exhibition match, leaving Apollo bloodied and slumped against the ropes. Rocky is ready to Drago exhibits no remorse, coldly stating "if he dies, he dies", claiming he will soon "defeat a real champion". Rocky decides to fight Drago to avenge Apol...

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The first "Rocky" is a barrage of iconography that embodies the well-recognized notion of how the white working class has it just as tough as anyone in the country. The beginning sees Rocky walking through the weathered, worn, muscular streets of Philadelphia, where white men doo wop about “taking it back like it was before” on the corners, and white kids form mischievous gangs in trash beleaguered streets. He works as an enforcer for a mobster who has a soft spot for him, goes home to a tiny apartment where everything can be found in one space, and the lights are never anything but dim. His best friend is a rather abusive drunk, and the women of his dreams works at a pet store. Rocky has a rolled up mattress as a punching bag, but the largest connection to victimhood is his humility. What always separates Rocky especially from Apollo, even more so than will, is this humility. This is an exercising of a commonly held racist belief that black people's pizzazz, our flavor, our panache is concrete, and somehow it goes before skill and leads to our downfall. It’s a version of Billy Hoyle in Ron Shelton's “ Apollo Creed's ego is as repetitious a theme throughout these movies as Rocky's indomitable will. Having already dug into that well twice already, "Rocky III" excavates another tried and untrue trope, the Black brute vs. the white man’s pride. It's “Black Peril" by way of white insecurity, this time in the form of erotic degradation of the white man’s prize, and in his face ...