It was also the highest grossing movie sequel ever until The Empire Strikes Back debuted one year later. Donnie later finds out and urges him to seek treatment, and eventually refuses to train for his fight with Conlan if Rocky doesn't accept treatment, which Rocky finally agrees to. In the second film, Creed, despite a promise that there wouldn't be a second fight, angrily demands a rematch in the hospital ER, and challenges Rocky to finish the fight from the climax of the first film. She would have to carry up the stairs of their house because he could not walk, or had to aid him as he went to the bathroom because he could not use his hands. Creed plows through sparring partners and trains harder than ever before, with the intention of punishing Balboa for the embarrassment eleven months earlier.

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But Creed uses various humiliation tactics to coax Balboa out of retirement, until he and his trainer Mickey Goldmill finally accept the challenge. Creed encourages Rocky not to ignore the naysayers that say he is too old but instead refocus himself.LeRoy Neiman makes an uncredited non-speaking cameo appearance during the training scenes in the film; he is shown drawing a picture of Apollo while he is training.

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As the fight progresses, Adonis manages to land sequence after sequence of effective blows, knocking Viktor down twice in the same round. He first seeks tutelage from Duke's son, "Lil' Duke" ( Wood Harris), who runs the Delphi Boxing Academy. Sylvester Stallone as Robert "Rocky" Balboa: A two-time world heavyweight champion and Apollo's rival-turned-friend who becomes Donnie's trainer and mentor. The fight also results in Creed finally acknowledging Balboa's ability as a fighter, rather than seeing him as a fluke.

Picking up where Rocky left off, the underdog Philadelphia prizefighter ( Sylvester Stallone) enjoys a touch of fame in ROCKY II after his controversial split-decision loss to champ Apollo Creed ( Carl Weathers).

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After Adonis' childhood friend Damian is released from prison and is looking for an immediate title shot, he asks Adonis, now a promoter, that if Apollo could give an underdog (Rocky) a title shot, why Adonis couldn't do the same?Years prior, he killed Apollo Creed during an exhibition boxing match in Las Vegas, and was later defeated by Rocky in Moscow on Christmas. Despite hesitating at first, Balboa agrees to let Creed train him for a rematch against Lang, who laughs off the prospect of "one has-been teaching another" during a television interview. A planned Bicentennial fight against number one contender Mac Lee Green was scheduled for January 1, 1976, which Apollo gladly hypes whenever someone places a microphone in front of him. However, producers Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff understood how much of the success of the first Rocky had come from Stallone's enormous input and lobbied hard to get him the job.

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An estimated 800 school children were used as extras in the scene in which Rocky runs through Philadelphia [5] and climbs the steps at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. After taunting the Russian and landing a number of ineffectual punches, Creed is pummeled badly in the first round. Coogler and Covington's original screenplay was completed by April 2014, [5] with the involvement of Jordan and Stallone also confirmed. Unlike their first fight, Creed dominates Balboa throughout the second fight, managing to thwart Rocky's strategy of fighting right-handed. Rocky II is a 1979 American film that is the sequel to Rocky, a motion picture in which an unknown boxer had been given a chance to go the distance with the World Heavyweight Champion.It's a film that could have gone so wrong in so many ways so easily, but the results show something that is genuine and inspired. Adrian's brother, Paulie ( Burt Young), confronts his sister about not supporting her husband, but she faints during the confrontation and is rushed to the hospital where she goes into labor. Adam Serwer views Creed as having "profoundly altered the character of Apollo Creed" and that Coogler's film accomplishes a redemption for Apollo "in several ways: through cameos from sports reporters discussing Creed as one of the greatest boxers ever, through the casual manner in which Philly’s denizens recognize and revere the name, and through Rocky, who acknowledges that Creed defeated him in their final, secret fight. In the film series, Apollo Creed is known as one of the world's best fighters, possessing a combination of great speed and strength. After Rocky is discharged from the hospital, he begins to enjoy the benefits of his life's changes resulting from the match: Rocky's new fame attracts him an agent who sees Rocky as a potential endorsement and sponsorship goldmine and his sudden wealth encourages him to propose to Adrian.