It is written and directed by and stars Sylvester Stallone as the title character, with Carl Weathers as former boxing rival Apollo Creed, Burgess Meredith as Rocky's trainer Mickey, and Talia Shire as Rocky's wife, Adrian.

At the end of the montage, Clubber is shown yelling at Rocky's trainer Mickey, goading him to set up a fight for the championship between Rocky and himself.

* Rocky's trainer in Russian, " Неправда, а как кусок железа.

At first, Mickey refuses, worried about Rocky's health, but changes his mind after Apollo publicly insults Rocky on television.

Mickey dies after this, and Rocky is then trained by Apollo Creed, his former opponent from the first two Rocky films, who polishes Rocky's fighting style.

Adrian ( Talia Shire ) shows up unexpectedly to give Rocky her support after initially refusing to travel to Russia because of her doubts on his fighting chances, resulting in Rocky's training having an added focus.

The object of the beginning part of Rocky's Boots is to use a mechanical boot to kick a series of objects ( purple or green squares, diamonds, circles, or crosses ) off a conveyor belt ; each object will score some number of points, possibly negative.

Rocky's opponent is James " Clubber " Lang, played by Mr. T. Lang is a younger and more aggressive boxer than Rocky.

Lang accuses Rocky of intentionally accepting challenges from lesser opponents and after sexually insulting Rocky's wife Adrian ( Talia Shire ), his challenge is accepted.

Unlike the flamboyant Apollo Creed and the brash Clubber Lang — Rocky's opponents in previous movies — Ivan is quiet and non boastful.

* In the movie Rocky III during Rocky's final fight with Clubber Lang

Actress Joan Sims died in 2001 and the role of Rocky's wife, Madge Darbley-Hardcastle was not recast ; in Series 8 it's mentioned that she's away participating in an Egyptian archaeological dig.

Although this film was released in 1979, the ring announcers say that it takes place ten months after Rocky's first fight with Apollo Creed, putting the Rocky II fight with Apollo in November 1976.

Meanwhile, fueled by hate mail he has started to receive, Apollo becomes obsessed with the idea that a rematch is the only way to prove that Rocky's performance was simply a fluke.

Through most of the filming and production, this was to be the outcome ; it wasn't until the film was nearing completion that Stallone decided against Rocky's death and went with the current ending.

The sixth film was an attempt to redeem the character for a final chance to come back as a hero again, and do the story justice by bringing it full circle ; as for Rocky's ability to fight again, Stallone suggested that advances in medical science during the period between the films had shown that the injuries mentioned in Rocky V were less debilitating than once thought, and that he would receive a " clean bill of health " today.

" This was the genesis of what would become Rocky and His Friends and later, The Bullwinkle Show, when NBC gave Rocky's sidekick top billing.

One of Rocky's biggest money-makers was robbing gum machines in the subways.

This is also how the scene was shown in the compilation film The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie in which Bugs and the police suddenly bust in and arrest Rocky's troop, but only after Daffy, exhausted, has filled all the egg cartons.

Diana tells Rocky that she never received the phone messages from her parents, and this visit was to be Rocky's final encounter with Diana.

The engine for the game was written by Warren Robinett, and variants of it were used in many of The Learning Company's graphical adventure games of the time, including Rocky's Boots, Gertrude's Secrets, Gertrude's Puzzles, and Think Quick !, all of which are similar but easier logic puzzle games.

An early role, when he was just 17 years of age, is in a short scene in Rocky II, playing a patient who asks for Rocky's autograph on his cast.

Rocky's most frequently used catch phrase was " hokey smoke!

Rocky's personality was meant to be that of an upstanding, if slightly naive, all-American youth.

Rocky's Ninja power was enhanced strength and the ability to quickly climb up surfaces.

When Rocky's fragment of the Zeo Crystal was reunited with the four other fragments, he is suited up to as the Zeo Ranger III for Power Rangers Zeo.

Following Rocky's transfer back to the club, they won the 1999 FA Cup in extra time, and the turnaround was complete in 1999 – 2000, when they won the Premier League title on the last day of the season, their first top-flight title in eight years and their most recent to date.

News had come in from Italy that Rocky's mother had been killed in a car accident added to the stress Rocky was under and resulted in him lashing out at opposition striker Matt Croker.

The distinctive style of the game was modeled after Robinett's earlier Atari 2600 game Adventure, to which Rocky's Boots was originally going to be a sequel.

He attacks even harder walking right into Rocky's trap.

Rocky, Adrian and Paulie ( Burt Young ) return home to find that Paulie had unknowingly signed a ' power of attorney ' over to Balboa's accountant, who had, in turn, squandered all of Rocky's money on bad business deals ( it is also revealed the accountant had not paid Rocky's income taxes in 6 years ).

A statue of Sylvester Stallone, depicted in his role of Philadelphia boxer Rocky Balboa, stood for many years in front of the main ( Pattison Avenue ) entrance of the Spectrum, which had been represented in the movie as the site of Rocky's first and second fights with Apollo Creed.

Mr. Michael R. Mace, Rocky's president, announced in October 2006 that there had been a 20. 8 % increase in the college's assets over the total from the same time during the previous year.

Rocky holds Pip at gunpoint, following him to a luxurious apartment that Pip insists is Rocky's.

After Rocky is discharged from the hospital, he begins to enjoy the benefits of his life's changes resulting from the match: Rocky's new fame attracts him an agent who sees Rocky as a potential endorsement and sponsorship goldmine and his sudden wealth encourages him to propose to Adrian.

When Adrian attempts to comfort him, Rocky's frustrations finally boil over.

Daffy is relieved that he met Rocky's demand and will be allowed to go free ... until Rocky escorts the duck into a room containing dozens of egg crates and orders him to lay enough to fill them, much to Daffy's despair.

Next, Bugs saws a circle around Rocky's chair, only letting him see the tool near the end.

She fights for Rocky's inclusion in a mainstream junior high school, and she confronts a principal who would rather classify Rocky with mental retardation and relegate him to a special education school to fulfill his special needs.

* bouncers: Sixteen of the bouncers / security men of Rocky's club, the Gulag, When Nick sneaks in, the bouncers and DJ open fire on him.

Frank, Dr. Scott, Brad, and Riff Raff then discover Janet and Rocky together under the sheets in Rocky's birth tank, upsetting Frank and Brad.

Entitled Angels with Big Trousers, the black-and-white faux-movie sketch featured Norman Pace playing " James Cagney as Rocky Pantaloon " and Gareth Hale playing " Somebody O ' Brien as The Irishman " ( Hale actually plays two Irishmen, Rocky's priest friend and a policeman ).

Rocky's priest friend Father Carmine ( Paul Micale ) makes his second of two appearances in the Rocky series, the first being in Rocky II.

Rocky's leather coat introduced in Rocky IV makes its second and final appearance in the franchise at the start of the movie.

* In the 1976 film " Rocky ", Horn and Hardart is mentioned in a scene between Rocky ( Sylvester Stallone ) and Paulie ( Burt Young ) discussing Rocky's plans for Thanksgiving dinner.

Visitors to the museum are often seen mimicking Rocky's famous run up the front steps, now known widely as the " Rocky Steps ".

Bugs then poses as Mugsy, another gangster ( flipping a coin like George Raft ), who threatens that " It's curtains for you, Rocky " as if he is going to execute Rocky, and then pulls an actual set of curtains from inside his jacket and hangs them over Rocky's head (" Aw, they're adorable ", Rocky purrs ).