{"id":12739,"date":"2000-10-22T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2000-10-22T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=12739"},"modified":"2021-05-03T17:43:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T21:43:52","slug":"the-rocky-connection-to-girlfight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2000\/10\/22\/the-rocky-connection-to-girlfight\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Rocky&#8221; Connection to &#8220;Girlfight&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Girlfight&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0is the story of an inner-city high school student,\u00a0<strong>Dianna Guzman<\/strong>, who repeatedly gets into fights because of uncontrolled anger. She finds redemption when she finds a release for that anger in the boxing ring!\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Girlfight&#8221;<\/strong> was written &amp; directed by <strong>KARYN KUSAMA.\u00a0 <\/strong>It\u00a0stars <strong>MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ <\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>SANTIAGO DOUGLAS<\/strong>.\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Girlfight&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0has been winning rave reviews from the public and critics around the country as well. It also won the grand jury prize and best-director awards at the<strong>\u00a0Sundance Film Festival<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the\u00a0<strong>STALLONE<\/strong>\u00a0connection, you ask? Of course many critics are comparing it to\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Rocky&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0because of the plot &#8212; underdog rising above expectations while at the same time finding love. But there&#8217;s more&#8230;\u00a0<strong>Diana<\/strong>&#8216;s boyfriend&#8217;s name is\u00a0<strong>Adrian<\/strong>\u00a0[and we all know that&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Rocky<\/strong>&#8216;s girl&#8217;s name&#8230;]! There&#8217;s even a rap song on the soundtrack that mentions\u00a0<strong>Rocky Balboa<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211;&nbsp;<strong>Craig Zablo<\/strong>&nbsp;[October 22, 2000]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Girlfight&#8221;\u00a0is the story of an inner-city high school student,\u00a0Dianna Guzman, who repeatedly gets into fights because of uncontrolled anger. She finds redemption when she finds a release for that anger in the boxing ring!\u00a0&#8220;Girlfight&#8221; was written &amp; directed by KARYN KUSAMA.\u00a0 It\u00a0stars MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ and\u00a0SANTIAGO DOUGLAS.\u00a0&#8220;Girlfight&#8221;\u00a0has been winning rave reviews from the public and critics [&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":[65,20,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-65","category-celebs","category-rocky"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-3jt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12739","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=12739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12740,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12739\/revisions\/12740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}