{"id":3248,"date":"2010-12-19T13:01:26","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T17:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=3248"},"modified":"2010-12-19T13:01:26","modified_gmt":"2010-12-19T17:01:26","slug":"rocky-is-a-best-knockout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/19\/rocky-is-a-best-knockout\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Rocky&#8221; is a Best Knockout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stallonezone.com\/imgs\/news\/2008\/April\/041808rocky_best.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stallonezone.com\/imgs\/news\/2008\/April\/041808rocky_best.jpg?w=640\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/forbidden_kingdom\/news\/1722234\/1.php\"><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>On <strong>December 16, 2010<\/strong>, <strong>Warren Tasker<\/strong> of <strong>The Edmonton Journal<\/strong> listed his choices for <strong>Five of Hollywood&#8217;s Best Knockouts<\/strong>.\u00a0 <em><strong>&#8220;Rocky&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> made the list and here&#8217;s what he had to say:<\/p>\n<p>2. Rocky (John G. Avildsen, Avild-1976)<\/p>\n<p>Sylvester Stallone  learned this month that he will be inducted into  the International  Boxing Hall of Fame for writing the screenplay to  Rocky, , the tale of a  Philly club fighter plucked from obscurity to  fight the heavyweight  champion. Can&#8217;t disagree at all with the  decision.<\/p>\n<p>Rocky, the  opposite of Raging Bull, is a feel-good yarn that  delivers on its  message: If you try hard enough, your dream will be  realized.  Stallone&#8217;s Rocky Balboa is a lovable lug, a  self-deprecating  deprecating boxer with a killer left hook to the  body. Audiences love  him, the supporting cast, the music and the  gritty boxing scenes. You  catch yourself cheering, even after all  these years. Yo Rock, we still  love ya.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edmontonjournal.com\/entertainment\/movie-guide\/Five+Hollywood+best+knockout+punches\/3985723\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>to read the full piece simply click here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 16, 2010, Warren Tasker of The Edmonton Journal listed his choices for Five of Hollywood&#8217;s Best Knockouts.\u00a0 &#8220;Rocky&#8221; made the list and here&#8217;s what he had to say: 2. Rocky (John G. Avildsen, Avild-1976) Sylvester Stallone learned this month that he will be inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame for writing [&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-3248","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-Qo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248","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=3248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3249,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248\/revisions\/3249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}