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Rocky Balboa

Genre
Drama
Rating
PG
Released
20 December, 2006
Rocky Balboa

Robert "Rocky" Balboa, is a fictional title character of the Rocky film series. The character was created by Sylvester Stallone, who has also portrayed him in all eight films in the franchise. He is depicted as a working class or poor Italian-American from the slums of Philadelphia who started out as a club fighter and "enforcer" for a local loan shark. He is portrayed as overcoming the obstacles that had occurred in his life and in his career as a professional boxer. While the story of his first film is loosely inspired by Chuck Wepner, a one-time boxer who fought Muhammad Ali and lost on a TKO in the 15th round, the inspiration for the name, iconography and fighting style came from boxing legend Rocco Francis "Rocky Marciano" Marchegiano, though his surname coincidentally also resembles that of Middleweight Boxing Champion Thomas Rocco "Rocky Graziano" Barbella.

First appearance Rocky (1976)
Created by Sylvester Stallone
Portrayed by Sylvester Stallone
Aliases Rocky
Occupation Professional boxer, Restaurant owner, Boxing trainer
Title World Heavyweight Champion
Spouse(s) Adrian Pennino
Children Robert Balboa Jr. (son)
Relatives Paulie Pennino (brother-in-law), Logan Balboa (grandson), Amara Creed (goddaughter), Donnie Creed (surrogate nephew), Amara Creed (surrogate great-niece)
Religion Catholicism
Nationality American
Ethnicity Italian

Over Rocky Balboa

The sixth film in the Rocky series sees the wily fighter coming out of retirement for one final fight. Sylvester Stallone wrote, directed, and starred in the film.

Prestaties van Rocky Balboa

The film was released thirty years after the first installment of the franchise. A spin-off movie, Creed, was released in 2015.

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