Creed was told no other contender was available for a fight on Jan. However, once they get to her house she tells Rocky "Screw you, creep'o." Rocky walks home, frustrated how nothing is going right in his life.īalboa gets his big break when the undisputed World Heavyweight Champion Apollo Creed decides that he wants to give an unknown fighter a chance to fight for the title after his intended challenger Mac Lee Green broke his hand while training. On the way, Rocky lectures her about staying away from the wrong people. When Rocky leaves for home that night, he sees a young girl named Marie, hanging around a bad crowd and walks her home. Unknown to him, the gym's owner and grizzled former boxer, Mickey Goldmill, doesn't hate him, but instead always considered Rocky's potential to be better than his effort. Later, Rocky stops by the local boxing gym and finds that he lost his locker to a contender. Even though the client didn't have all the money, Rocky didn't break his thumb, even though Gazzo ordered him to do so. Afterwards, Rocky goes to collect a loan for his boss Tony Gazzo. Adrian was very shy though and was scared of Rocky's tough appearance. The next day, Rocky stops by the local pet store and tries to talk to the shy pet-shop worker Adrian Pennino, younger sister of his friend Paulie. Enraged, Rocky delivers a vicious barrage of punches, knocking Rico out. In the second round, Rico hits Balboa with a headbutt, leaving a gash on his forehead. Rocky Balboa is fighting Spider Rico in a local boxing ring called the Cambria Fight Club (nicknamed "The Bucket of Blood") inside a chapel. The film begins in 1975, in the slums of the Kensington section of Philadelphia, three nights before Thanksgiving. His nickname is "The Italian Stallion", spawning from his Italian-American heritage. Rocky was proud that he never had his nose broken in a professional fight (but eventually broke his nose in his first fight against Apollo Creed). By late 1975, Rocky had fought in 64 fights, winning 44 (38 KO'S) and losing 20. Unable to live on the small pay of club fights, and being unable to find work anywhere else, Rocky got a job as a collector for Tony Gazzo, the local loan shark, just to make ends meet. He trained very hard so he could grow up to be like his idol Rocky Marciano. During the scene in which Rocky takes Adrianna "Adrian" Pennino skating on Thanksgiving, he tells her, "Yeah – My ol' man who was never the sharpest told me – I weren't born with much brain so I better use my body." This encouraged him to take up boxing. He was the only child in a Roman Catholic Italian-American family. Robert "Rocky" Balboa born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on J(the same year Sylvester Stallone's actual birth date).
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