{"id":2343,"date":"2010-04-17T11:24:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T15:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=2343"},"modified":"2010-04-17T11:24:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-17T15:24:48","slug":"sly-favorite-on-screen-tough-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/17\/sly-favorite-on-screen-tough-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"Sly: Favorite On-Screen Tough Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><\/strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stallonezone.com\/imgs\/news\/2010\/mar\/032810rocky3.png?resize=475%2C382\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"382\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dustin Schoof<\/strong> for <strong>LeighValley.com<\/strong> posted his list of <strong>Favorite On-Screen Tough Guys<\/strong>.\u00a0 The list included: <strong>Sly, Bruce Willis, Mr. T, Dolph Lundgren, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Roddy Pipper, Clint Eastwood<\/strong> and<strong> Samuel L. Jackson<\/strong>.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what he had to say about <strong>Sly<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone):<em> \u201cRocky,\u201d<\/em><em> \u201cRocky II,\u201d \u201cRocky III,\u201d \u201cRocky IV,\u201d \u201cRocky V,\u201d \u201cRocky Balboa\u201d <\/em><br \/>\nRocky was and still is the perennial people\u2019s champion. With the help of his trainer Mick (Burgess Meredith), former adversary <\/strong><strong>Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W8xHjC27YvM\">obligatory \u201980s training montage<\/a>, the \u201cItalian Stallion\u201d from South Philly beat the odds, brain damage, old age and even communism.<\/p>\n<p>Along the way he encountered two of the meanest men to appear on screen: the vicious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Pnhe2VgdSEU\">Clubber Lang<\/a> (Mr. T) and the cold-blooded Soviet killer, <\/strong><strong>Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren). Yo Adrian, he did it! <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/movies\/index.ssf\/2010\/04\/our_favorite_hollywood_tough_g.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>read the full piece<\/strong><\/a> right here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dustin Schoof for LeighValley.com posted his list of Favorite On-Screen Tough Guys.\u00a0 The list included: Sly, Bruce Willis, Mr. T, Dolph Lundgren, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Roddy Pipper, Clint Eastwood and Samuel L. Jackson.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what he had to say about Sly: Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone): \u201cRocky,\u201d \u201cRocky II,\u201d \u201cRocky III,\u201d \u201cRocky IV,\u201d \u201cRocky V,\u201d \u201cRocky Balboa\u201d [&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":[85,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-85","category-honors"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-BN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343","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=2343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2344,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions\/2344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}