* March 24: The fight that inspired the movie Rocky: With a young Sylvester Stallone sitting at home and watching, Muhammad Ali retains his world Heavyweight championship with a fifteenth round knockout over underdog Chuck Wepner, but not without suffering a ninth round knockdown first, in Cleveland.

* Oscar ( 1991 film ), an American film adapted from the same source as the French film, starring Sylvester Stallone

The 1991 comedy film Oscar played a direct homage to the scene, recreating it on its poster, where the main character ( played by Sylvester Stallone ) hangs from a clock.

Stallone has also been quoted as saying the enormous financial success and fan following of Rocky IV once had him envisioning another Rocky movie devoted to Drago and his post-boxing life ( although Stallone acknowledged he was in better shape, he was excommunicated from his country ), with Balboa's storyline parallel.

* Sylvester Stallone filmed scenes from the movie Cop Land in 1997 at the Hilltop Reservations.

Both fighters are taken to the same hospital due to the extent of their injuries from the match, where Apollo challenges Rocky ( Sylvester Stallone ) to a rematch in front of press.

Rocky returns home from the Soviet Union and is greeted by his son, Robert ( Sage Stallone ).

Stallone stated that having discussed the story with many boxing medical professionals, the injury Rocky suffered was a milder form of brain damage, similar to that of a long term concussion that many boxers suffer from and by modern day standards are still able to gain licenses to box and would not have prevented Rocky from gaining a license to box nor killed him.

Nonetheless, Stallone was still praised for his performance and the film received some positive feedback from some fans, with the Los Angeles Times regarding it as the best of the Rocky sequels.

Marion Cobretti, codenamed " Cobra ", ( Stallone ) is a police officer from a division of the Los Angeles Police Department known as the " Zombie Squad ".

Sylvester Stallone answered numerous questions from fans in the site's message boards while publicizing the release of Rocky Balboa as well as The Expendables.

Stallone portrays a prison designer who is framed and must escape incarceration from one of the prisons he helped to design.

A game character " Silvester Stallion " was named for Sylvester Stallone, and a powerup in the game, " Oil slicks from your arse " is one that Sly's character can be seen using in the movie.

This game features sound clips from the movie, as well as original speech by Stallone and Snipes.

John Rambo ( Sylvester Stallone ), having been tried, convicted, and sentenced to time at hard labor, is working in a labor camp prison when he gets a visit from his former commander, Colonel Sam Trautman ( Richard Crenna ).

According to several members from the set, Stallone directed the majority of the film, despite not receiving co-director credit.

Celebrity guests in attendance for WrestleMania 21 included David Arquette, Motörhead, Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top, The Black Eyed Peas, Billy Corgan from The Smashing Pumpkins, Anthony Kiedis from Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ice Cube, Carmen Electra, Sylvester Stallone, Marg Helgenberger, Matt Groening, Rick Rubin, Will Sasso and Macaulay Culkin.

After Dallas, Gray starred in the 1991 comedy film Oscar with Sylvester Stallone and then made guest appearances in British drama Lovejoy ( starring her co-star and love interest from her final series on Dallas, Ian McShane ).

About to enter the Manhattan end of the tunnel, former New York City Emergency Medical Services Chief, Kit Latura ( Sylvester Stallone ), now working as a taxi driver, witnesses the fireball erupting from the entrance.

Mitchelson's celebrity clients included Pamela Mason ( wife of James Mason ), who received a $ 2 million divorce settlement from her ex-husband, Robert De Niro, Mickey Rooney, Sylvester Stallone, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Joan Collins, Mel Tormé, Bianca Jagger, Lesley-Anne Down, Carl Sagan, Mrs. William Shatner, and many ex-wives of errant playboy sheiks.

The 1980s would see the action film take over Hollywood to become a dominant form of summer blockbuster ; literally " the action era " popularized by actors such as Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis and Chuck Norris.

One prominent film critic has noted not only the increase in popularity of the film over the years, but that Stallone felt ( much to his chagrin ) his creative powers peaked at this chapter of the saga.

Sylvester Stallone was rumored to be taking the role of Frank Sullivan in 1997, but fell out of the deal after a dispute over his fee.

John and his long time friend, Craig Zablo ( the very talented site creator of Stallonezone, a Sylvester Stallone fansite ), would go over and make a weekend of it.

Cutbacks at Carolco also forced the studio to make a deal with TriStar over the funding of the Stallone action film Cliffhanger: Carolco would have to sell full distribution rights in North America, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, and France to TriStar in exchange for half of the film's budget.

Tango & Cash is a 1989 American buddy cop film directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, although Albert Magnoli took over in the later stages of filming, starring Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Jack Palance and Teri Hatcher.

The " Sylvester Stallone porno movie " evolved over the years into a minor urban legend.

When Sylvester Stallone spotted Mr. T in this second airing, it is strongly believed that the interview with sports journalist Bryant Gumbel originated his famous line " I don't hate him but ... I pity the fool ", which was worked into the movie Rocky.

In 1980, Mr. T was spotted by Sylvester Stallone while taking part in NBC's " America's Toughest Bouncer " competition, a segment of NBC's Games People Play.

Asia were also credited with contributing the Giorgio Moroder produced track " Gypsy Soul " to the Sylvester Stallone film soundtrack to Over the Top, although Wetton was the only band member involved.

He met his wife, art expert Barbara Guggenheim when she hired him to defend her when she was sued by Sylvester Stallone.

Sylvester Stallone was credited as the author.

Edgewater was used as a filming location for the 1997 feature film, Cop Land, starring Sylvester Stallone, Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel and Ray Liotta.

Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas was unhappy to share the screenwriting credit with the film's star Sylvester Stallone, as he felt that Stallone's input had been minor, while Stallone claimed to have basically rewritten the whole script.

Sylvester Stallone was credited as the author.

The film's theme song " Eye of the Tiger ", was written by the group Survivor at the request of Stallone, and became a smash hit single, topping the US Billboard music charts and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song.

A bronze statue of Rocky, called " ROCKY ", was commissioned by Sylvester Stallone and created by A. Thomas Schomberg in 1981.

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.

Eventually, Stallone rewrote the ending, saying that he decided to change it because Rocky was supposed to be about perseverance and redemption, and having him die in a street brawl would be against the roots of the series.

In the ensuing years following the film's release, Stallone acknowledged that the injury Rocky suffers subsequently forcing him to retire, referenced in the film as a potentially lethal form of ' brain damage ', was inaccurate.

On July 8, 2010, in an interview with The Sun, Stallone was interviewed about the Rocky films.

When he came to Rocky V, Stallone replied he made it out of greed, and reiterated that this was part of his motivation in making Rocky Balboa, a 6th installment to the series.