{"id":125,"date":"2006-12-08T20:14:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-09T00:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=125"},"modified":"2006-12-08T20:14:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-09T00:14:00","slug":"as-real-as-it-gets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/08\/as-real-as-it-gets\/","title":{"rendered":"As Real As It Gets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rocky [SYLVESTER STALLONE] takes a hard shot from Mason Dixon [ANTONIO TARVER] when the final round of the Academy Award-winning Rocky franchise hits theatres on December 20, 2006. Written and directed by SYLVESTER STALLONE.  Sly and former light heavyweight champ, Antonio Tarver traded real blows in an effort to make Rocky&#8217;s last fight his most realistic.  <br \/> -Craig Zablo<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rockybalboaassets.com\/RBB\/pictures\/DF-01826_wtm.jpg?w=640\"><\/p>\n<p>Photo by: John Bramley<\/p>\n<p>2006 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc., Columbia Pictures Industries Inc., and Revolution Studios Distribution Company, LLC<\/p>\n<p>And now as an added bonus, an interview question and answer from Sly!<\/p>\n<p><em>QUESTION: What motivated you to bring back Rocky for a final chapter?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>SYLVESTER STALLONE: I just didn&#8217;t like the way the last one ended.  Truthfully I thought the last one it, it just wasn&#8217;t over, you know, you think it&#8217;s over, and you really go back and you rehash it in your own mind like an athlete.  You go, &#8220;God, you know, maybe I just retired too soon.   Maybe Rocky just retired too soon.&#8221;   And yeah, someone told him he had problems.  He had health problems.  He, he had a little brain damage, but he never even had a second opinion.   He just automatically assumed it.  We do have our ups and downs, and it was a down side of his life.   But I think that the real affirmation of life is what comes after that?  Do you come out of that valley or not, you know?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sly fans will also want to check out the great questions and answers that Sly is delivering each day at AIN&#8217;T IT COOL NEWS! Click<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aintitcool.com\/node\/30919\"> HERE <\/a>to get there! <br \/> -Craig Zablo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocky [SYLVESTER STALLONE] takes a hard shot from Mason Dixon [ANTONIO TARVER] when the final round of the Academy Award-winning Rocky franchise hits theatres on December 20, 2006. Written and directed by SYLVESTER STALLONE. Sly and former light heavyweight champ, Antonio Tarver traded real blows in an effort to make Rocky&#8217;s last fight his most [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-21","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","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=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}