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Rocky and Apollo's
The second round doesn't go any better, and despite Duke begging Rocky to throw in the towel, he honors Apollo's wish.
Incensed by Drago's cold indifference and feeling a deep sense of guilt, Rocky decides to avenge Apollo's death by agreeing to relinquish his title and fight Drago in Russia on Christmas Day in an unsanctioned 15-round bout.
Rocky IV has been noted as a prime example of propaganda through film, with both the stark culture contrast of Apollo's patriotic showing in Las Vegas and Drago's cold, subdued performance in the USSR and the ubiquitous yet ineffective KGB officers stationed around Balboa's cabin outside Krasnogourbinsk.
Rocky at first seems unaffected by Apollo's smear campaign, but his inexperience with money causes him to run into financial problems.
Rocky is not able to mount much of an offensive effort through the first two rounds but manages to survive them disproving Apollo's theory that the first fight's result was a fluke.
However, Apollo's obsession with knocking Rocky out ( against the advice of his corner men ) leads him to trade blows with Rocky despite his lead.
Afterwards, Rocky fulfills Apollo's vague " big favor ": a private rematch with him.
Also missing from the soundtrack is the instrumental version of the song played when Rocky is training in Apollo's old gym.
In Apollo's corner, Rocky contemplates whether to throw in the towel and surrender the fight ( against Creed's earlier instructions ), but instead he decides to hold onto the towel.
To avenge Apollo's death, Rocky travels to the Soviet Union to fight Drago on his home turf in Moscow.

Rocky and trainer
After largely unsuccessful attempts to find employment, Rocky visits Mickey Goldmill ( Burgess Meredith ), his trainer, at his gym to talk about the possibility of returning to the ring.
Rocky's trainer Mickey ( Burgess Meredith ) initially wants no part of it and admits to the champion that Lang was right, he had handpicked Rocky's opponents to protect him and to ensure Rocky remained successful and healthy.
Rocky Balboa ( Sylvester Stallone ) and his trainer Tony " Duke " Evers ( Tony Burton ) are in their dressing room after the Drago fight.
Meredith played Rocky Balboa's trainer, Mickey Goldmill, in the first three Rocky films ( 1976, 1979 and 1982 ), to great acclaim.
After this, The Ring published a cover of him, WBA Jr. Lightweight world champion Rocky Lockridge and their trainer, Lou Duva.
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 and Duke
* The Tigers: Duke Kelly, Rocky Graham, Spike Larsen, Ike Cassidy, Dutch Jones, Rowdy Quilp, Carl Higgensbottom and Jess Rae
Among the notables who died either without a valid will or no will at all are Ross Alexander, Fatty Arbuckle, Anura Bandaranaike, Madhav Prasad Birla, Sonny Bono, George Brent, Lenny Bruce, Jacob A. Cantor, Kurt Cobain, Russ Columbo, Sam Cooke, James Dean, Sandy Dennis, John Denver, Divine, Duke Ellington, Cass Elliot, Chris Farley, Bobby Fischer, Redd Foxx, Mary Frann, James A. Garfield, Marvin Gaye, Ulysses S. Grant, Billie Holiday, Buddy Holly, Shemp Howard, Howard Hughes, Andrew Johnson, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ernie Kovacs, Harry Langdon, Bruce Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Peter Lorre, Jayne Mansfield, Rocky Marciano, Karl Marx, Steve McNair, Sal Mineo, Carmen Miranda, Keith Moon, Rosa Parks, Pablo Picasso, Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Tupac Shakur, Don Simpson, Anna Nicole Smith, William Desmond Taylor, Sharon Tate, Tiny Tim, Ritchie Valens, Hervé Villechaize, Barry White, and Jimmy Witherspoon.
While Duke and Paulie cheer Rocky for his heroism, they remind him that Drago is not a machine, but a man.
At a press conference, a promoter named George Washington Duke ( Richard Gant ) tries to goad Rocky into fighting Union Cane, the new # 1 contender for the championship in Tokyo, but with Adrian insisting on her husband's retirement, Rocky decides, at least for the time being, not to take the fight with Cane.
Meanwhile, Tommy's impressive rise through the ranks catches the eye of Duke, who uses the promise of a title shot against Cane ( now the champion ) to lure him away from Rocky.
Duke pulls up outside the Balboa house with Tommy in tow, who has now been deceived into thinking that Rocky doesn't have his best interests in mind.
With Tommy enraged by the press's reaction, Duke convinces Tommy he needs to fight Rocky man to man.
Duke and Tommy show up at a local bar to goad Rocky into accepting a fight.
Afterwards, Duke commends Rocky, trying to appeal to him.
Duke threatens to sue if Rocky touches him, but after a brief hesitation, Rocky punches Duke in the gut anyway, knocking him onto the hood of a car.
In the credits, Burton is credited as playing " Tony ," as opposed to " Duke " ( perhaps to avoid confusion with the George Washington Duke character ) Rocky V is the second time in the series to do so, with the first being Rocky II as Apollo asked " What are you afraid of, Tony?
" Rocky Balboa names Burton's character, " Duke Evers ".
* Rocky IV ( Duke ( Tony Burton ))
His credits include the films Rocky V ( as the Don King-esque George Washington Duke ), as a possessed coroner in Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday ( 1993 ), Deadwood, Babylon 5, Special Unit 2, NYPD Blue, Living Single, Posse, Men Don't Tell and Charmed.

Rocky and Tony
A few of the many Carolina League players who have gone on to star in the Major Leagues are: Johnny Bench ( Peninsula, 1966 ), Wade Boggs ( Winston-Salem, 1977 ), Barry Bonds ( Prince William, 1985 ), Rod Carew ( Wilson, 1966 ), Dock Ellis ( Kinston, 1965 ), Dwight Evans ( Winston-Salem, 1971 ), Dwight Gooden ( Lynchburg, 1983 ), Andruw Jones ( Durham, 1996 ), Chipper Jones ( Durham, 1992 ), Willie McCovey ( Danville, 1956 ), Joe Morgan ( Durham, 1963 ), Dave Parker ( Salem, 1972 ), Tony Pérez ( Rocky Mount, 1962 ), Andy Pettitte ( Prince William, 1993 ), Jorge Posada ( Prince William, 1993 ), Darryl Strawberry ( Lynchburg, 1981 ), Bernie Williams ( Prince William, 1988 ), and Carl Yastrzemski ( Raleigh, 1959 ).
World champions whom Chávez defeated include Jose Luis Ramírez, Rafael Limón, Rocky Lockridge, Meldrick Taylor, Roger Mayweather, Lonnie Smith, Sammy Fuentes, Héctor " Macho " Camacho, Juan Laporte, Edwin Rosario, Greg Haugen, Tony López, Giovanni Parisi, Joey Gamache and Frankie Randall, who had taken the WBC Light Welterweight belt from Chávez just four months earlier.
Other well-known players in the post-war years included: Yogi Berra, Phil Rizzuto, Carl Furillo, Sal Maglie, Vic Raschi, Roy Campanella, Dom DiMaggio, Ernie Lombardi, Joe Pepitone, Rico Petrocelli, Sal Bando, Rocky Colavito, and Tony Conigliaro.
Tony praises Rocky for his victory and for honoring Apollo Creed's memory, but Rocky, seen to be in some form of severe physical discomfort, asks Tony to summon his wife Adrian ( Talia Shire ).
However, during his scenes, Rocky refers to him as " Tony ".
* Rocky Graziano defeats Tony Zale to win boxing ’ s world middleweight championship.
Sugar Ray Robinson and Jake LaMotta began their series of famous bouts towards the middle of the decade, Jack and Montgomery fought four times, and Rocky Graziano and Tony Zale starred in what boxing critics have often called one of the fiercest rivalries in boxing history.
* June 10-The final chapter of the Zale-Graziano trilogy, as Tony Zale defeats Rocky Graziano by knockout in round three to regain the world's Middleweight title, in Newark.
They were complemented very well on offense with quarterbacks Tom Clements and Mike Kerrigan throwing to Rocky DiPietro and Tony Champion leading to three straight trips to the Grey Cup in 1984, 1985 and 1986, the latter resulting in winning the title over the Edmonton Eskimos by a score of 39 – 15.
* One early segment saw Piper's guest, Tony Atlas ( who was appearing with fellow WWF Tag Team Champion Rocky Johnson ) turn the tables on Piper ; before Piper had a chance to begin insulting the team, Atlas remarked that his wife wears the same skirt he ( Piper ) does.
Other ex-boxers have been said to have had dementia pugilistica when in fact they suffer from nothing worse than a working-class accent and a gruff demeanor ( e. g., Rocky Graziano, Tony Zale ).
He then played with the Rocky Mountains Old Time Stompers ( replacing Tony Dallara who had left to pursue a solo career ) and with Rolling Crew.
In March 1972, she embarked on a solo career with her first single, " Day by Day ," a cover of a song from the popular Broadway musical Godspell ( which also incorporated a medley of two other numbers from the show ), produced by Tony Orlando for Rocky Road Records ( a subsidiary of Columbia Records ).

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