{"id":3233,"date":"2010-12-12T11:34:36","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T15:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=3233"},"modified":"2010-12-12T11:34:36","modified_gmt":"2010-12-12T15:34:36","slug":"rocky-one-of-the-most-powerful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/12\/rocky-one-of-the-most-powerful\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Rocky&#8221; One of the Most Powerful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stallonezone.com\/imgs\/news\/2010\/may\/05012010rocky.png?resize=475%2C290\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"290\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On <strong>December 8, 2010<\/strong>, <strong>SignOnSanDiego<\/strong> posted <strong>Christy Lemire<\/strong> choices for the <em><strong>Five Most Powerful Boxing Movies<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 As one would expect, <em><strong>Rocky<\/strong><\/em> made the cut and here is why&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <em><strong>&#8220;Rocky&#8221; <\/strong><\/em>(1976): Again, from the what-more-can-we-say? department. We  went with the first <em><strong>&#8220;Rocky&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> here, tempting as it was to dredge up later  installments featuring<strong> Mr. T<\/strong> and <strong>Dolph Lundgren<\/strong>, because it set the  precedent for the franchise. It was the little movie that could, the one  that came out of nowhere with no budget and shocked the world by  winning the best-picture<strong> Oscar<\/strong> over bigger and more traditional  contenders:<em><strong> &#8220;Network,&#8221; &#8220;All the President&#8217;s Men,&#8221; &#8220;Bound for Glory&#8221; <\/strong><\/em>and  <em><strong>&#8220;Taxi Driver.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> <strong>Sylvester Stallone <\/strong>wrote the script and starred as the <strong> Italian Stallion<\/strong>, <strong>Rocky Balboa<\/strong>, a small-time boxer who would go on to  win the heavyweight championship. As full of cheesy uplift as the ending  is, it still sends chills.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/2010\/dec\/08\/5-most-powerful-boxing-films\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>To read the full report, click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 8, 2010, SignOnSanDiego posted Christy Lemire choices for the Five Most Powerful Boxing Movies.\u00a0 As one would expect, Rocky made the cut and here is why&#8230; &#8220;Rocky&#8221; (1976): Again, from the what-more-can-we-say? department. We went with the first &#8220;Rocky&#8221; here, tempting as it was to dredge up later installments featuring Mr. T and [&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":[85,28,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-85","category-honors","category-rocky"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-Q9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233","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=3233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3234,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233\/revisions\/3234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}