For many boxing fans, the rigor and riskiness of boxing can seem self-justifying: fighters are inspiring precisely because the thing they do is so gruelling and so dangerous.
. Both Rocky Balboa, the character, and Sylvester Stallone, who created and embodied him, were inspired by Rocky Marciano, the nineteen-fifties heavyweight, who is now much less known than his fictional namesake. When Stallone was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, in 2011, he accepted the honor in front of a crowd of people chanting “Rocky! Rocky!”
Intentional ignorance, though, is difficult to defend. And so, spurred by the impending release of “Creed III,” I decided I should finally watch the “Rocky” saga—all nine films, in order, in two weeks. No one will be shocked or disappointed to learn that I was neither shocked nor disappointed. On the contrary, the experience was pleasantly familiar, like meeting a celebrity who more or less lives up to his image.
One of the cleverest things about “Rocky” is how little boxing there is in it. Rocky spends much of the film brooding, moping, second-guessing himself. I had to wait more than an hour before I saw him standing in his dingy Philadelphia apartment slurping down his famous 4breakfast of five raw eggs. And not until the ninety-minute mark does he finally bound up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, raising his wrapped fists.
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