In the [if you add "Academy" then award becomes a proper noun and requires capitalization] Award-winning film Rocky by director John G. Avildsen and screenwriter/actor Sylvester Stallone, they have put a recurring theme [ of the main character Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) being an underdog. They did this by first showing Rocky boxing in an underground ring against Spider Rico (Pedro Lovell) and even though he [Rocky?] won his match he still had to “bum” a cigarette off of someone.
As well when he got paid from the match it wasn’t a lot of money and even his opponents aren’t much and are referenced as “bums” as well and after his match was over he keeps asking when was his next match eager to fight again but they keep telling him they will let him know the next match was. Rocky even has a side job as muscle to a loan shark named Tony Gazzo (Joe Spinell) which he isn’t that good at either since he was supposed to get Gazzo’s money from a dock worker but he left him off easy since he was supposed to break the man finger but instead he took what was in his wallet and left. Of course, he was yell at by Gazzo but other than that there were no repercussions. Later on that week Rocky decided to go to his local boxing gym that he went to for over Ten years that was owned by Mickey (Burgess Meredith) to found out all his stuff was put on “skid row” and his locker was taken by another boxer that Mickey think has more potential. When Rocky started to walk home he decided to try to help a young girl and was telling her that reputations are what everyone remembers by but after telling her all that she still called him a creep. Rocky would later get his come up after being challenged to a fight by Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) which he was reluctant to do it and even after training non-stop, the night of the fight he was feeling like he couldn’t beat Apollo. In his match with Apollo, he manages to knock him down which was a first in a while for Apollo and survive 15 rounds with him
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