{"id":1546,"date":"2009-07-26T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T16:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=1546"},"modified":"2009-08-02T09:53:33","modified_gmt":"2009-08-02T13:53:33","slug":"rocky-all-time-favorite-again-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/26\/rocky-all-time-favorite-again-2\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Rocky&#8221; All Time Favorite Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <strong>July 26, 2009<\/strong>, <strong>Nathan Dominitz<\/strong> of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/savannahnow.com\" target=\"_blank\">Savanah Now.com<\/a><\/strong> posted his <strong>All Time Top Ten Favorite Sports Movies<\/strong>.\u00a0<strong> &#8220;Rocky&#8221;<\/strong> came in 3rd and here&#8217;s what he had to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>3. Rocky (1976)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hero: Boxer Robert &#8220;Rocky&#8221; Balboa (Sylvester Stallone)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Plot: Balboa, a palooka fighter\/inept loanshark muscle, has few career options until heavyweight champ Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) needs a hand-picked tomato can for a Philadelphia bout. Enter the Italian Stallion to prove that underdogs, through earnest training and guts, can go toe-to-toe with superior talent, speed, experience and size. It&#8217;s often forgotten by politicians and the like adopting the underdog &#8220;Rocky&#8221; persona that he lost (by 15-round split decision) in the original. Oscars went to &#8220;Rocky&#8221; in 1977 for best picture and director.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Quotable: &#8220;Yo, Adrian!&#8221; &#8220;Cut me, Mick.&#8221; Anything uttered by Balboa&#8217;s crusty trainer, Mickey Goldmill.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Backstory: The story goes that Stallone, a broke actor\/screenwriter, sold his screenplay for $350,000, contingent that he star as Balboa. He did, but made scale as the lead actor and nothing more for writing. Studio United Artists wanted a big name (Burt Reynolds? Robert Redford?) but was contractually stuck with Stallone. The rest, including numerous sequels, is cinematic history.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the complete list by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/savannahnow.com\/node\/758282\" target=\"_blank\">clicking here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 26, 2009, Nathan Dominitz of Savanah Now.com posted his All Time Top Ten Favorite Sports Movies.\u00a0 &#8220;Rocky&#8221; came in 3rd and here&#8217;s what he had to say: 3. Rocky (1976) Hero: Boxer Robert &#8220;Rocky&#8221; Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) Plot: Balboa, a palooka fighter\/inept loanshark muscle, has few career options until heavyweight champ Apollo Creed [&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-1546","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-oW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546","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=1546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1548,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions\/1548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}