Dustin Schoof for LeighValley.com posted his list of Favorite On-Screen Tough Guys. The list included: Sly, Bruce Willis, Mr. T, Dolph Lundgren, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Roddy Pipper, Clint Eastwood and Samuel L. Jackson. Here’s what he had to say about Sly:
Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone): “Rocky,” “Rocky II,” “Rocky III,” “Rocky IV,” “Rocky V,” “Rocky Balboa”
Rocky was and still is the perennial people’s champion. With the help of his trainer Mick (Burgess Meredith), former adversary Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) and the obligatory ’80s training montage, the “Italian Stallion” from South Philly beat the odds, brain damage, old age and even communism.Along the way he encountered two of the meanest men to appear on screen: the vicious Clubber Lang (Mr. T) and the cold-blooded Soviet killer, Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren). Yo Adrian, he did it!
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