{"id":10089,"date":"2005-06-05T16:43:34","date_gmt":"2005-06-05T20:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=10089"},"modified":"2018-08-04T16:45:38","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T20:45:38","slug":"rocky-still-the-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2005\/06\/05\/rocky-still-the-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"“Rocky” Still the Standard!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
Now that “Cinderella Man”<\/b> is out and doing well, writers are creating their lists of the best boxing\u00a0 movies ever<\/b>. I’m happy to say that “Rocky”<\/b> is\u00a0always listed and usually at the top.<\/p>\n

Joe Holleman of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/a><\/b> ranks “Rocky” <\/b> at #2<\/b> and says, “Sylvester Stallone<\/b>\u00a0 reinvented the underdog film with this Best Picture Oscar<\/b> winner.”<\/p>\n

Louis B. Hobson of the Winnipeg Sun<\/a><\/b> writes: Stallone<\/b> deserves kudos for writing and starring in a simple, time-honoured story told with style, heart and passion. Stallone<\/b> made Rocky Balboa<\/b> a symbol of the extraordinary things ordinary people can achieve if they have a dream and the passion to pursue it.<\/p>\n

Nearly 30 years<\/b> later, “Rocky” <\/b>is still the standard! – Craig<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Now that “Cinderella Man” is out and doing well, writers are creating their lists of the best boxing\u00a0 movies ever. I’m happy to say that “Rocky” is\u00a0always listed and usually at the top. Joe Holleman of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ranks “Rocky” at #2 and says, “Sylvester Stallone\u00a0 reinvented the underdog film with this Best […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,28,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-66","category-honors","category-rocky"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-2CJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10090,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10089\/revisions\/10090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}