{"id":1028,"date":"2009-01-04T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2009-01-04T12:11:57","modified_gmt":"2009-01-04T16:11:57","slug":"rocky-chosen-best-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/04\/rocky-chosen-best-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocky Chosen Best Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stallonezone.com\/imgs\/news\/2009\/jan\/010409sly_tarver.jpg?resize=475%2C322\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"322\" \/><br \/>\nOn <strong>December 31, 2008<\/strong>, <strong>EJ Claudio<\/strong> at <a href=\"http:\/\/bleacherreport.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>BleacherReport.com<\/strong><\/a> listed his choices for <a href=\"http:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/98676-top-5-boxing-films-of-all-time\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Top Five Boxing Movies of All Time<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 His number one choice was <strong>&#8220;Rocky&#8221;<\/strong> which beat out <strong>&#8220;Raging Bull,&#8221; &#8220;Million Dollar Baby,&#8221; &#8220;Cinderella Man&#8221; <\/strong>and every other boxing movie ever made.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what he had to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>1. <\/strong><em><strong>Rocky<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sylvester Stallone will always be remembered because of this film. It was a very good movie that connected with the audience. It is about Rocky Balboa, a not-so-smart boxer with limited skills who rose to fame by winning the hearts of many when he overcame the odds and put on a good fight against the champion,\u00a0Appollo Creed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 31, 2008, EJ Claudio at BleacherReport.com listed his choices for The Top Five Boxing Movies of All Time.\u00a0 His number one choice was &#8220;Rocky&#8221; which beat out &#8220;Raging Bull,&#8221; &#8220;Million Dollar Baby,&#8221; &#8220;Cinderella Man&#8221; and every other boxing movie ever made.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what he had to say: 1. Rocky Sylvester Stallone will always [&hellip;]<\/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":[53,28,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-53","category-honors","category-rocky"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-gA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028","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=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}