{"id":6801,"date":"2014-04-13T08:22:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-13T12:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=6801"},"modified":"2014-04-13T08:22:41","modified_gmt":"2014-04-13T12:22:41","slug":"crowining-mr-sports-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/13\/crowining-mr-sports-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowining Mr. Sports Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stallonezone.com\/imgs\/news\/2013\/dec\/121213sly_butkus.png?resize=500%2C403\" width=\"500\" height=\"403\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On<strong>\u00a0April 9, 2014<\/strong>, <strong>Yahoo! Movies<\/strong> took a look at which actor had played the most sports roles in their piece <a href=\"https:\/\/movies.yahoo.com\/blogs\/movie-news\/crowning-mr-sports-movie-actors-ve-played-most-223028919.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Crowining Mr. Sports Movies<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0by <strong>Brian Enk<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Had they counted each <em><strong>Rocky<\/strong><\/em> movie individually (as I think they should have) then <strong>Sly<\/strong> would have easily come in first. \u00a0At any rate, here&#8217;s what the said about him&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong id=\"yui_3_9_1_1_1397391271593_1446\">\u2014Sylvester Stallone:\u00a0<\/strong>If we were to tally sports movies as a whole, including sequels, the Italian Stallion would be our champ, with six entries as boxer Rocky Balboa in the &#8220;Rocky&#8221; movies. Sly&#8217;s other sports movie credits include &#8220;Death Race 2000&#8221; (1975), in which he played deadly cross country racer Machine Gun Joe Viterbo; &#8220;Paradise Alley&#8221; (1978), in which he played Cosmo Corboni, one of three brothers trying to play the wrestling game in 1940s NYC; &#8220;Victory&#8221; (1981), in which he played a soccer goalie for the Allied forces as they face off against a German team at a WWII prison camp; &#8220;Over the Top&#8221; (1986), the greatest arm-wrestling movie ever made; &#8220;Driven&#8221; (2001), in which he plays former CART champion and car racing mentor Joe Tanto; and &#8220;Grudge Match&#8221; (2013), in which he plays former boxing champ Henry &#8220;Razor&#8221; Sharp.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On\u00a0April 9, 2014, Yahoo! Movies took a look at which actor had played the most sports roles in their piece Crowining Mr. Sports Movies\u00a0by Brian Enk. Had they counted each Rocky movie individually (as I think they should have) then Sly would have easily come in first. \u00a0At any rate, here&#8217;s what the said about [&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":[127,54,73,112,90,11,9,13,43,55,57,79,22,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-127","category-death-race-2000","category-driven","category-grudge-match","category-over-the-top","category-paradise-alley","category-rocky","category-rocky-2","category-rocky-3","category-rocky-4","category-rocky-5","category-rocky-6","category-rocky-balboa","category-victory"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-1LH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801","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=6801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6802,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801\/revisions\/6802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}