[Crowd cheering]
[Announcer] It's blind instinct!
But now it is creed comin' back. Creed with a left hand!
What's keepin' these two guys up?
A tremendous closing moment!
♪ ["Theme from Rocky"]♪
Here comes Balboa back, but the champion, back with another left!
They're exhausted.
[Men grunting] [Man] Get away from the rope!
Where they're getting it, I don't know! A right hand!
It's creed! Now it's Balboa!
Now it's creed! And now a tremendous left by Balboa!
They're standing dead in the center of the ring, toe-to-toe!
[Cheering]
[Crowd chanting] Rocky! Rocky! Rocky!
Aah!
One!
Two!
[Announcer] Creed will retain the title!
If neither gets up, it's a draw, and creed will win the title!
- Four! - Get up!
- Oh, God! - Five!
- Get up. - Six!
-Each trying to beat the count! -Seven!
- Get off your knees! - Hurry!
- Eight! - He's trembling!
- Nine! - The champ is down!
Ten! You're out!
- He won! He won! - He's done it at the last second!
Balboa got on his feet, and he made it! Rocky Balboa has shocked the world!
He is the new heavyweight champion of the world!
[Bell dinging]
Ladies and gentlemen, in a stunning upset,
scoring a win by a knockout,
the new heavyweight champion of the world,
- you were great. - Rocky Balboa!
[Rocky] Excuse me. Excuse me.
I just wanna say one thing to my wife, who's home.
Yo, Adrian! I did it!
I love you. I love you.
[Cheering]
[Grunting]
♪ Risin' up
♪ back on the streets
♪ did my time took my chances ♪
♪ went the distance now I'm back on my feet ♪
♪ just a man with his will to survive ♪
♪ so many times it happens too fast ♪
♪ you trade your passion for glory ♪
♪ don't lose your grip on the dreams of the past ♪
♪ you must fight just to keep them alive ♪
♪ it's the eye of the tiger it's the thrill of the fight ♪
♪ risin' up to the challenge of our rival ♪
♪ and the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night ♪
♪ and he's watchin' us all with the eye ♪
♪ of the tiger
♪ face-to-face out in the heat ♪
♪ hangin' tough stayin' hungry ♪
♪ they stack the odds still we take to the street ♪
♪ for the kill with the skill to survive ♪
♪ it's the eye of the tiger it's the thrill of the fight ♪
♪ risin' up to the challenge of our rival ♪
♪ and the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night ♪
♪ and he's watchin' us all with the eye ♪
♪ of the tiger
come on, come on! Bring it to me!
Come back! Come on!
♪ Risin' up straight to the top ♪
♪ have the guts got the glory ♪
♪ went the distance now I'm not gonna stop ♪
♪ just a man and his will to survive ♪
it's the muppet show!
♪ It's the eye of the tiger it's the thrill of the fight ♪
♪ risin' up to the challenge of our rival ♪
♪ and the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night ♪
♪ and he's watchin' us all with the eye ♪
♪ of the tiger
[engine revving]
[Grunting]
♪ Eye of the tiger
ugh!
♪ The eye of the tiger
I want Balboa! I want Balboa!
Hear that, old man? You tell Balboa to come here if he wants!
Nobody can beat me! You tell him what I said!
And he's next! I'm gonna kill him!
Nobody can stop me! You tell Balboa that!
I'm comin' after him! You tell him!
I want a shot at the title.
If Balboa's got the guts, he'll meet me in the ring or anywhere else.
My whole life's been directed towards this here title, and nothin' else.
I live alone, and I train alone.
I'll win the title alone. I want him.
He can't duck me forever. He can run, but he can't hide.
Well, another southpaw,
heavyweight champion Rocky Balboa doesn't seem to be worried about much these days.
He's just defended his title for the tenth time...
And now he's even agreed to take on the world's heavyweight wrestling champion...
In a sort of charity benefit,
with all the proceeds to go to a local youth foundation.
Now, I'll have to give him credit.
Mr. Balboa manages to stay busy. He's a true sportsman.
And it looks like the number-one contender, Clubber Lang,
will have to continue to play the waiting game.
But that should be a great, great matchup.
[Man] Take it easy, okay?
[Tv] The word is "awesome." Introducing the newest Datsun z-car.
[Man] Hey, you goin'?
Don't forget to give Rocky my best, huh?
You know, I've been comin' here years.
How about you give me, Paulie, your best once?
[Bartender] Take it easy, Paulie.
[Tv] You own the road. [Man] Hey, hey! Paulie!
Paulie, you hearin' me? Hey, when you see the rock, tell him the boys all say hey!
[Distant sirens wailing]
I don't know. Listen, I'll see you later.
[Chatter, laughter]
[Video game sound effects]
[Explosion sound]
[Woman] Forty thousand!
[Sound effects continue]
[Woman] I got another one!
[Bell ringing]
[Door slams]
Paulie.
You wanna hear "I owe ya"? You, I owe nothin'.
No, you don't owe me nothin'.
So, what do you want I should do?
My sister ain't here? She's home.
Well, me and her used to be tight, until you come in.
I raised her, she don't come down.
She don't know about this.
You can up and go to hell, you know that?
Hey, watch your mouth, Paulie.
You gonna whack me? I don't sweat you. I don't sweat you. Come on.
Come on, Paulie. Why don't you screw your head on right?
No, it ain't my head. Your freakin' head is the one on wrong.
Yeah? Well, what did I do?
What'd you do? Nothin'. For yourself? Oh, nice.
You fixed your face up handsome, nice clothes.
What'd you do for Paulie? Anything? Three years?
Did you get me a job? Just this.
You gave me a lousy, stinkin' ex-lax watch. This!
[Breaking sound] Paulie.
What? What? There!
That's right! No, leave it down!
It never kept good time anyway.
You forget when you were a punk and those guys
used to laugh at ya because you were so jive.
Who used to whack them bums out?
They laughed at both of us.
No one laughed at me.
Tell me, who fixed ya up with your first woman?
Me, Paulie! I was responsible!
She was pregnant.
So what? You was no prize either.
You know, I always give ya. I give ya. What do you do?
You buy a new house. You move Mick in, right?
Did you ask me? Is there somethin' the matter with me?
I got feelin's, you know. This ain't cardboard.
Everybody's got 'em, Paulie.
- To hell with everybody. - Maybe it's to hell with you.
I don't wanna listen to this crap.
You talk like everybody owes you a livin'. Shut your mouth.
Look. Nobody owes nobody nothin'. You owe yourself.
- You're wrong! Friends owe! - Friends don't owe!
They do because they wanna do.
Shut your freakin' mouth. You been keepin' me down!
Down? You know, you're like a crazy brother to me.
You really are. So I'm gonna tell you somethin'.
This is comin' straight from the heart, Paulie.
And I mean this.
You ain't down, and you ain't a loser.
You're just a jealous,
lazy bum.
Okay. I'm gonna break your mouth.
I'm gonna break your mouth!
[Grunting]
Can I have a job?
All you had to do was ask.
You punch pretty good.
Think so? Oh, superb.
Cost a lot, huh? Yeah, a few bucks.
Got an extra one?
[Adrian] Any trouble with Paulie tonight?
[Rocky] No, nothin' unusual.
Are you really gonna fight that wrestler? They're so big.
That's all right. It'll be fun.
You mind if I serenade you?
♪ Do-do-do-do come on, it's your part.
What are you doin'? Come on. You can do it.
No. ♪ do-do-do-do
Rocky, you're gonna wake the baby. Adrian, let's do a duet.
♪ Do-do-do-do
♪ dow-dow-dow-dow no. Hold on a minute.
That's good, but it's not "dow-dow's."
♪ Do-do-do-do
♪ do-do-dow-do that's good.
♪ I been told ♪ do-do-do-do
♪ by people everywhere ♪ ♪ do-do-do-do
♪ I said to take me back ♪
♪ take me back like before ♪
what's the matter?
I don't know any more of the composition.
Maybe we're lucky. Yeah, we're very lucky.
Very lucky. Mmm.
♪ Do-do-do-do
[humming] [Chuckling]
[Cheering] Howdy, howdy, howdy, sports fans.
This is Dennis James with Jim Healy down here at ringside.
Tonight we have a most unlikely match for you--
the boxer against the wrestler--
with all the proceeds going to charity.
What are your feelings about a boxer against a wrestler in the same ring?
Well, you know, the age-old theory is...
That the wrestler, once he grabs that boxer, that's all she wrote.
What the hell goes on inside your head? Anything? Normal functions?
Yeah, there's a few. I don't think so.
Because to fight a creature like this, you
gotta have about 100 pounds of brain damage.
I seen wrestlers that was bigger than dinosaurs.
You ever fight a dinosaur, kid? No, not lately.
They can cause a variety of damage. ♪ [Introduction song]
The wrestling champion of the world is now entering the arena, and I'm telling you,
he is quite a sight-- all decked out in red.
Why are they carryin' him? He's walkin'.
[Growling]
[Booing]
I'm comin' after you, Balboa.
Let's call it off. Aw, come on. It's for charity.
[Mickey] You're wearin' your anatomy out for charity.
Nobody else does this much for charity.
Bob hope would. That's true.
♪ [Continues]
Rocky, you better call Bob hope.
[Booing]
[Man] He's a flasher!
To all my love slaves out there,
Thunderlips is here, in the flesh, baby.
Oh, my God.
The ultimate male versus...
The ultimate meatball. [Laughs]
Boy, he is a monster.
How much would you take even to get in the ring with him?
Would you like to start at fort knox?
In the white corner, an incredible sight,
standing nearly seven feet,
weighing 390 pounds,
[booing] Oh, geez.
The undisputed wrestling champion of the world,
that's the biggest arm in the world! Got ya!
A man who calls himself the ultimate object of desire,
the Mountain of molten lust,
the one, the only...
Thunderlips!
- Boo! - [Shouting]
You're all trash! You're all trash!
In the far corner, the slugger from Philadelphia--
[cheering]
- You better shut up! - [Indistinct]
I'll break you in half!
How much do you think he eats? About 202 pounds.
Weighing 202 pounds,
the reigning heavyweight champion of the world,
Rocky Balboa!
[Cheering]
[Ring announcer] Come to the center of the ring, please.
Okay, come on, Mick.
All right, you guys, you know this is for fun,
so take it easy and give 'em a good show.
Listen.
After the match, how about we get a polaroid together, okay?
[Growling] You're in trouble, Buster.
I'm gonna break him in half like this!
Seems like lately, everybody wants to beat me up.
[Mickey] This is entertainment. I'll squash Balboa!
Stay away! Make faces! Move around the ring! Got it, kid?
[Paulie] He is the ring.
I get nervous every time he does that.
- [Bell dings] - Aah!
Whoa. You move pretty fast for a big guy, you know that?
Listen, why don't we just move around a little bit, like give 'em a good show.
First I'll chase you, then you chase me, okay?
How's that? All right? We'll go easy.
Is that okay? Does that hurt? Stay away from him!
How's that? Okay? Not bad, huh?
Come on, meatball! Come on!
Hey! Aah!
Think it's all fake, meatball? All fake?
Thunderlips has gone absolutely berserk.
[Growling]
Run for your life!
Life's tough, meatball!
- Oh! - Aah!
[Chuckles]
Get up, boy! Come on, meatball! Get some of this right here!
[Mickey] Stand up, Rock!
- Rocko, remember the neighborhood! - Aah!
Get out of his way!
No, no, no, not yet. Not for the meatball.
I'm not done with him yet, boy.
If I can't break your spirit, I sure enough can break your back!
Aah!
- Is daddy havin' fun? - Of course.
Get up!
Aah!
Somebody lend me a hatchet!
- I'll-- - holy smoke!
Here we go, baby! Nice drop, meatball!
- [Grunts] - Aah!
Oh, my God! Balboa is really in pain!
No one can believe the superhuman strength of Thunderlips!
- I am the man! - Stop him, will ya?
You want this punching bag? Adrian?
- Rocky! - Aah!
- Catch me! - That's incredible!
[Dennis james] Balboa was just heaved clear into the fifth row!
Now the fans are outraged too.
[Booing] I'm gonna drag him down now like a dirty rag!
- You weakling, Balboa! - [Shouting]
I'm coming after you!
You okay?
[Dennis james] Now the security guards are rushing in, trying to stop this slaughter.
- Teeth are flying everywhere! - Why? You finished?
- [Growling] - Come on, cut my gloves off.
- [Shouting] - That place is a zoo!
This place has turned into a zoo! This is very, very--
want me to get a doctor? You sure?
[Dennis james] The girls have gotten into it now.
They're getting beat up too!
Where are you going, you fool? Be right back.
You're a maniac! Come back here!
What are you doing?
Come back here! Hey, come on, you!
Out of the way, worms! Come on!
Come on! Come on! [Growling]
[Grunting]
All right, Thunderlips, break it up!
No choking! No choking!
- Aah! - Paulie, help!
[Cheering]
I don't sweat you!
[Booing]
[Cheering]
Hang on! Hang on there, kid!
- [Gagging] - How do you like it, huh?
You're kinda cute. I don't need this.
[Dennis james] Rocky is out-and-out strangling him.
Rocky hanging on like a bull terrier.
Now he's got him in a stranglehold.
Rocky! Rocky! Rocky! Rocky!
- [Cheering] - The body!
[Grunting]
- Knock his block off! - [Groaning]
[Cheering]
- Timber! - No!
[Dennis james] It's unbelievable! Rocky actually did it!
The human skyscraper's been thrown out of the ring! [Bell dinging]
All right, that's it. Time is up.
Get outta my way!
Break it up! Break it up!
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a draw. A draw.
Thank you, one and all, for attending...
The 12th annual charity match between the Italian stallion, Rocky Balboa,
and Thunderlips, the ultimate male.
See you next year. Thank God.
Are you all right? Yeah, pretty good.
- Good match. - Why'd you get so crazy on me out there?
That's the name of the game.
While you're still calm, can we get that polaroid together?
Yeah, sure.
Adrian, come on over here. My wife Adrian, my kid.
That's Thunderlips. Al, would you do that? That hurt.
Okay, that's all right.
You know, sometimes charity really hurts. [Laughs]
And this Pinocchio, he told a lie, you see,
and his nose started growin' real big.
Why didn't his ears grow? [Laughs] I don't know.
I didn't write the story. Are you fighting again?
Today? No, I don't plan on fightin' today.
Promise? Promise. Definitely I promise.
Good. I like you here.
Yeah? I like Bein' here. Are you gettin' hungry, huh?
You want some breakfast? You want wheaties? Yeah.
What are wheaties, huh? Champions.
Breakfast of what? Champions. Champions. [Honks horn]
[Rocky] And the father bear, he says, "somebody's been sleepin' in my bed."
And the little kid bear said,
"somebody's been sleepin' in my bed, and there she is."
Thereby he pulls back the covers...
And thereby exposing her to the, you know, public, see?
Come on, eat your cereal before it sinks.
Then what happened to goldilocks?
What happened to her? I'm not exactly sure.
Busted for trespassin', and got 30 days in the clink.
That's real nice, Paulie.
That's nice to tell the kid. Rocky?
Rocky, the car is waiting. Okay.
You guys better go. Be a good boy now.
We'll have a fun time, me and the kid. All right.
[Paulie] Oh, Mrs. stallion, you almost look pretty good.
Oh, thank you, Paulie. Don't give the kid any beer, all right?
Okay, we gotta go. And, Paulie, don't take him to the track, all right?
How ya doin', Mick? Pretty good.
Now, we got a problem in the seventh.
♪ ["Theme from Rocky"]
♪
whatever happened to them quiet, tender moments, huh?
♪
[cheering]
Thank you. Thank you, one and all.
Every once in a while, a person comes along who defies the odds,
who defies logic...
And fulfills an incredible dream.
On behalf of all the citizens of Philadelphia,
and the many who have been touched by your accomplishments...
And your untiring participation...
In this city's many charity functions,
it is with tremendous honor that we present this memorial,
which will stand always as a celebration...
To the indomitable spirit of man.
Philadelphia salutes its favorite son,
Rocky Balboa!
It's beautiful.
Definitely a thing of beauty.
Rocky! Rocky! Rocky! Rocky!
[Cheering subsides] Thank you.
Thank you very much.
I don't know what-- what do you say to somethin' like this?
About three years ago,
this city...
Really took me inside, you know?
And I want to thank you very much for that. I really do.
And I've been thinkin' that, uh,
I wasn't gonna bring this up, but I might as well now.
I would never do anything to--
to hurt this sport that has been...
So really good to me.
And I've been talkin' it over with my wife...
And my manager,
and we think that--
well, it's really hard to-- I feel like, well--
I'm thinkin' maybe it's time that I should, uh,
step down maybe and... Retire.
[Crowd] No!
No! No!
Gettin' out while you can?
Don't give this sucker no statue. Give him guts!
I told you I wasn't goin' away. You got your shot.
Now give me mine. Why don't you get the hell outta there!
Shut up, old man! I ain't goin' nowhere.
Now why don't you tell all these nice folks why you been duckin' me.
Politics, man. This country wants to keep me down, keep everybody weak.
They don't want a man like me to have the title,
because I'm not a puppet like that fool there.
You know, you've got a big mouth.
Why don't you come out and close it, Balboa? Come on!
- Anytime. - The guy's crazy. Don't listen to him.
If the little man don't wanna come to me,
then I'll come to you and lay out the truth.
I am ranked number one. One! That means I'm the best.
But this bum is takin' the easy matches, fightin' other bums.
I'm telling you and everybody here...
I'll fight him anywhere, anytime, for nothin'.
[Shouting]
But you people ain't never gonna see that happen because he's gonna retire.
You see, he don't fight no real man.
He fight them setups. What?
You're a disgrace to this sport!
Shut up, old man! You and that chump don't know where I had to come from.
Balboa, your family doin' real nice, ain't it?
You call yourself a fighter. Prove it now.
Give me the same chance. The way you been duckin' this is a disgrace.
If he ain't no coward, why don't he fight me then?
I can't listen to any more of this. I don't care what you're ranked.
You don't get no shot, and I mean that!
I'm glad you're seein' this. What are you doin'?
I wanna fight this guy.
Well, you've got him. But you've got him without me.
What are you sayin'? It's finished.
Yes, I'm finished. I don't want no more of this.
I don't want no more of it. You understand? None of it!
[Mickey] It's all over with! [Clubber] Judge me by my fightin' record.
Hey, woman. Hey, woman. Listen here.
Since your man ain't got no heart, maybe you'd like to see a real man.
I bet you stay up late every night dreamin' you had a real man, don't you?
I'll tell you what.
Bring your pretty little self over to my
apartment tonight, and I'll show you a real man.
You want it, you got it!
[Shouting]
- Anytime! - You got it!
[Brakes screech]
Rocky, don't. Come on.
Rocky, please, let's go talk. Hey, Adrian.
Rocky. Let's talk.
Why'd you leave? Why'd you walk away like that?
Life's too short, kid.
Where are you goin'?
I'm goin' on a permanent vacation.
What are you talkin' about? We got one more fight.
No, not we. You.
Why are you doin' this?
I said, why are you doin' this?
Because you can't win, Rock!
This guy'll kill you to death inside of three rounds!
You're crazy. What else is new?
He's just another fighter. No, he ain't just another fighter.
This guy is a wreckin' machine, and he's hungry.
Hell, you ain't been hungry since you won that belt.
What are you talkin' about? I've had ten title defenses.
That was easy. What do you mean, easy?
They was handpicked!
Setups? No, they weren't setups.
They was good fighters, but they wasn't killers like this guy.
He'll knock you into tomorrow, Rock.
Geez, Mick.
Why'd you do it?
Because the beating that you got from Apollo should've killed you, kid.
It didn't.
It was my job to keep you winnin' and to keep you healthy.
You really don't think I got nothin' left, do you?
Well, Rock, let's--
well, let's put it this way.
Now, three years ago, you was supernatural.
You was-- you was hard, and you was nasty...
And you had this cast-iron jaw.
But then,
the worst thing happened to you...
That could happen to any fighter.
You got civilized.
Oh, don't worry, kid.
You know, presidents retire,
generals retire, horses retire.
Man o'war retired.
They put him out to stud.
That's what you should've done, retire.
I can't retire knowin' all this, Mick.
Oh, don't push it. Well, you been carryin' me.
We don't need it. You've been carryin' me, though.
I haven't been carryin' ya. I been protectin' ya.
No, it's not the way-- I want this fight, just one more.
But we don't need it. I'll live in the gym.
We don't need it. Mick, I do.
And I'm askin' you to train me one last time.
Oh, no, I can't.
If you don't, uh,
I'm gonna tell everybody you ain't bought a new pair of underwear in ten years.
[Chuckles] You would, wouldn't you?
Yeah, absolutely.
No, no, no.
Come on.
One more time, then it's over.
It's a deal? Come on.
It's your head, kid. It's your head.
Yeah, it is. Thanks, man.
♪ Pushin' gettin' ready for the fight ♪
♪ pushin'
♪ every day and night
♪ pushin' gettin' ready for the fight ♪
♪ pushin' every day and night ♪
♪ pushin'
get your Rocky robes here. Get your Rocky robes here. Hot off the truck.
Rocky robes, hot off the truck. Clean stuff. Get your robes.
[Laughing]
♪ On the night of the fight I will survive ♪
♪ there's nowhere to run there's nowhere to hide ♪
♪ on the night of the fight
[bell dinging, siren blaring]
♪ There's nowhere to hide
collectors' item! Once in a lifetime! Get your buttons here!
[Mickey] You can't stand toe-to-toe with this guy,
or he'll deposit you up there on Mars someplace.
He's too tough. He's too strong.
Listen. Now how the hell can we train in this creep joint here?
I mean, this is kind of a house of ill-reputes or somethin', isn't it?
Why did you rent this joint?
Oh, come on, Mickey. Let's go out in style, okay?
You wanna go out in style, go out in one piece!
Now let's get outta here. Let's go back to the old gym, will ya?
Let's get some blood and sweat and tears around here.
Can we do that?
Hey, will you just relax and enjoy it?
♪ [Continues]
They love it, Mick.
[Grunting]
Go fight! Fight now. Go ahead.
Fight it, fight it. Get rough, get tough.
Get brutal. That's it.
Excuse me. Could I get a kiss? Yeah, sure.
Get outta here, will ya?
[Mickey] It's like fightin' in a zoo. It's a zoo, you know?
Is that the way you train for clubber? He ain't gonna kiss ya.
He's gonna kill ya. You know that? Get outta here!
[Grunting]
Yo, Rock! How about a picture?
Yeah, sure. Rock!
[Grunting]
♪
[grunting]
♪
[groaning]
Put a little speed on there!
Put a little speed on there! That a boy.
[Grunting]
[Groaning]
[Grunting]
All right, this'll tell us a story. ♪ [Continues]
Faster! Side to side.
Side to side, Rock! Side--
shut up back there, can't you? Change your tune.
That's it! Punch, punch, punch!
That's it, kid. You're a deadly weapon. Time!
Time, time, time. Quit it.
You're okay. Come on.
Here, put this on before you catch pneumonia. Okay.
I'll give you a little rubdown, too. Yeah.
Hey, listen, kid.
I-I don't like to hear much of what comes out of people's mouths,
and I don't like soft-talkin' moments. That's for sure.
You know, but I just wanted to tell you one thing-- that I'm proud of ya.
Well, thanks a lot.
That's all right, kid. Let's get outta here.
Eh, Mick? Yeah?
What do you think we're gonna do when it's all over, huh?
I don't know. Maybe join up with a circus.
Yeah, maybe. All right, let's go.
[Rocky hums circus tune]
[Announcer] Good evening, everyone. Along with bill Baldwin,
I'm stu nahan, and we welcome you to tonight's heavyweight title fight,
which may prove to be the most memorable of all.
For tonight is the champion's final and perhaps most difficult title defense.
Rocky, do you feel you're in the best shape of your career?
Oh, yeah, absolutely. I feel real good.
He's a deadly weapon. He's one of a kind, and he's gonna do it.
Clubber, do you think you're as fast as Balboa?
I'll do my talkin' in the ring! Clubber, dance for us.
[Reporters shouting questions]
You better get outta here! I wanna be alone!
Will you retire after this fight? This is the last one.
After this, me and Mick are finished. This is definitely the last one.
Clubber-- you're parasites and leeches! Get outta here!
What will you do after tonight?
I'm not sure. Maybe join the circus, eh, Mick?
Yeah. Have some fun.
Come on, take your robe off!
[Shouting] I told you to get outta my face!
With us this evening is the former heavyweight
champion of the world, Apollo creed.
Do you have any predictions on this fight?
How do you see this fight going tonight?
I feel its strength would have to go to the challenger,
while experience and the world's hardest head would have to go to Rocky Balboa.
And you know I know about that.
Now remember, Rock. Don't trade with this guy.
Take your time, wear him down,
but don't stand toe-to-toe with him. Mm-hmm.
This punk's never been 15 rounds before.
Take him good. Take him good. Okay. I will.
That's it.
So I predict that the champ's gonna take it.
Now wait a minute. Do you really think the champion can hit that hard?
Why do you think I'm sittin' out here with you?
[Crowd noises]
[Excited shouting]
[Cheering]
Hey, sucker!
Balboa, you gone! You finished!
You washed up! I'm the baddest in the world!
- You're not so bad to me. - What you say, paper champion?
I'm gonna beat you like a dog!
Can't you get that ape back into the ring?
You made me wait too long! You gonna pay!
Come on, mouth!
Get him outta there, can't you? Get him outta there!
[Shouting]
Let me go! Let me go! Get outta my way! Get outta my way!
- [Groaning] - You know who I am? You know who I am?
I'm the man! I'm the man! You're nothin' but dead meat!
I'll get you in the ring, sucker! You're dead meat!
Let go! [Shouting]
Oh! Rocky! Rocky!
What's wrong? It's his heart.
What's wrong, Adrian? Get a doctor!
Somebody get a doctor! Come on!
[Everybody shouting]
Sit here, Mick. Get 'em outta here!
[Shouting] Get 'em outta here!
[Shouting]
Mick, will you sit on the table? I'm all right.
Just take a deep breath. Get those guys outta here!
Move! Mick, will you sit on the table?
Paulie, tell 'em the fight's off. Go on! Go on!
The fight's not off. Are you outta your mind?
The fight's on. You crazy?
Mick, we can't, not tonight. I ain't fightin'.
Yes, tonight we're gonna fight. Just let me get my breath.
Can't I get my breath? Is that against the rules? Mick--
- will you please get a doctor, Paulie? - He's on his way.
Mick, I can't go out there and fight like this.
I can't go out like this.
Now get out there. Get goin', will ya?
Take him good. Get it over with, why don't ya?
[Crowd chanting] Rocky! Rocky!
Adrian, what am I supposed to do?
What the hell do you mean, what are you supposed to do?
After all these years together, you don't know what to do?
You oughta be ashamed of yourself. Now get out there and do it.
Do it.
You're the best.
[Crowd] Rocky! Rocky! Okay.
Rocky! Rocky! Oh, my God.
Rocky! Rocky!
Adrian, take care of him. Take care of him.
[Reporters asking questions]
[Ring announcer] Well, good evening, ladies and gentlemen,
and welcome to the featured event...
For the heavyweight championship of the world.
And fans, with us tonight, truly one of the fistic greats,
he's coming up from ringside,
the master of disaster, the king of sting, the one and only...
Apollo creed! [Cheering]
[Baldwin] And there he is, the former heavyweight
champion of the world, Apollo creed.
Stu, he looks like nine million dollars.
Get outta my face! I don't need nothin' you got no more!
Don't need no has-been messin' in my corner.
And you better get that bad look off your face before I knock it off.
Come on. Wanna jump? Jump. Come on.
Come on, creed.
Come on! Yeah, come on!
Yeah, just like a chicken. You better run.
[Cheering] Yeah.
Give everybody a present and drop this chump, all right?
All right. Good luck to you. [Muttering]
- [Cheering] - [Bell dinging]
All right, fans, here we go.
Presenting to you, on my left, out of the blue corner, hailing from Chicago,
weighing in at an even 235 pounds, the world's number one challenger,
I wonder how Mick's doin'.
The undefeated Clubber Lang!
- [Cheering] - I'm the best. I'm the best!
You and clubber exchanged words up there. Any comment?
I have no comment. [Bell dings]
And his opponent, in the opposite corner,
really needing no introduction to the world over.
He weighs in at a trim 201 pounds.
The pride of Philadelphia,
the Italian stallion...
And the reigning heavyweight champion of the world,
Rocky Balboa!
[Wild cheering]
[Nahan] Listen to this crowd.
[Softly crying]
[Ring announcer] Now to give instructions in the middle of the ring,
the referee, Marty denkin.
Clubber, Rocky, you know the rules. I want a good, clean fight.
When I tell you to break, I want you to step back at my command and break.
Now go back to the corner and come out fighting at the bell.
Dead meat.
[Nahan] This is not gonna be a fight of finesse.
These are two guys that really throw punches.
This could end with one punch.
Chump's scared. Yeah. Hang him up.
See the look in his eyes?
Rocky, I'm no trainer.
Just go out and kill the guy. Kill him, Rock.
He's scared.
I'm the new champion, I tell ya. I'm the new champ as of today!
The Italian stallion, a rugged champion,
in the final fight of his colorful career tonight.
Jimmy London was correct. He looks like-- well, just great.
[Bell dings] Here we go. Oh, boy!
The champion came out swinging!
[Grunting] Balboa's off to an incredible start.
He looks determined to destroy the bigger challenger.
[Paulie] Get him, Rock! Get him!
Get in there! Move him back!
- [Grunting] - Defense!
[Nahan] Now it's Balboa! They're goin' at each other!
You got him! You got him, Rock!
Double him up! Double him up!
Come on! Come on, boy!
Come on!
The challenger is hitting him with everything he's got.
- Oh! - [Grunting]
Come on, Balboa. You made me wait!
Come on, Balboa! [Bell dings]
[Audience booing]
[Nahan] He hobbles away,
trying to get himself to his corner. Grab him, Paulie.
Where's Mick? Where's Mick?
He's okay. I need him here.
He ain't nothin'! I told you he ain't nothin'!
He's too strong. Don't talk like that, Rocko. Come on.
Tear him up! I'm gonna smoke him. I'm gonna smoke him.
I can't keep him off. I can't keep him off.
He's mine! He's mine! I'm gonna get him!
I'm losin' it, Paulie. Where's Mick?
[Doctor #1] What do you got there? [Doctor #2] 200 over 50.
[Doctor #1] All right, let's start cpr.
Come on, you can do it. I'll try.
[Nahan] Waiting for round two. Rocky appears to be staggering.
[Bell dings] I'll get him.
Coming out of the corner, here comes clubber!
[Audience] Rocky! Rocky! Let's go!
Come on, Balboa! Come on, you stupid hick!
Give it to me! Let's see if you can give it to me!
[Grunting]
Move on the inside! Piece of cake!
[Nahan] The champion is nearly helpless.
- What a beating he's taking! - [Grunting]
[Baldwin] A left to the head!
- Don't stand toe-to-toe with him! - Come on, Balboa!
[Groaning]
[Cheering] Back off!
- [Cheering] - Come on, get up!
Four, get up, Italian! Come on, Scooby doo!
Five, six, I told you I was gonna get you!
Seven, eight, nine, Simon says get up!
Ten, you're out!
[Nahan] The champion is finished in the second round!
-It's unbelievable, incredible! -I beat Balboa!
Incredible upset! Balboa in the corner, out on his feet!
Out of the fight!
We have the time.
[Ring announcer] The winner by a knockout,
the new heavyweight champion of the world,
Clubber Lang! I did it!
[Clubber] I told you! I told you I'd do it!
Yeah! Yeah! I'm the new champion of the world!
[Grunting]
[Reporters shouting questions]
Come on, get outta here! Get outta here!
[Door closes]
Rocky, what happened? I'm all right. How's Mick?
He wouldn't go to the hospital till you got here. What?
Mr. Balboa, time is important. We must get him to the hospital immediately.
Okay.
Mick?
What?
What, what, what?
Is it over?
Yeah, it's all over.
Hey, listen.
What happened?
It was a knockout.
What round? What round?
Second round.
Yeah, I knew it. That's good.
We did it, huh? We did it. We did it.
You don't have to worry about nothin' no more.
Everything's gonna be okay, Mick.
Yeah. We did it.
Mick, you just gotta get to the hospital.
You're not as young as you used to be, okay?
You're the winner. [Mumbles]
We did everything right. No, we--
I did everything right. No, listen to me. You done everything right.
Listen, we got more to do.
Mick, whatever you wanna do, we'll do it, okay?
I love ya, kid. I love ya.
Mick? [Gasping]
It hurts me.
Mick?
Mick!
Mickey!
[Sobbing]
Mick! [Mumbles]
[Sobbing, mumbling]
Oh, God.
[Sobbing]
[Mumbling]
Oh, my God!
Oh, Jesus!
[Wailing]
[Man speaking in hebrew]
[Rocky responds in hebrew]
[Continues]
[Hebrew]
This concludes our service.
[Engine starts]
Hmm!
Aah!
[Engine starts]
That's not the way to do it.
Who's that?
Why don't you hit it straight? Step into it.
Apollo?
Right.
I waited at your house for about an hour, and your wife said you might be here.
What are you doin' here?
Business.
If the papers knew we were talkin' like this, they'd think we was crazy.
Why you?
'Cause I'm the best, and you need somebody to teach you different.
Why? To be honest with you, I don't think you could pull it off without me.
You still didn't give me the answer, Apollo.
What's the real reason?
Listen. It's quiet, isn't it?
When you're retired, it's too quiet.
I mean, we're too young to retire, anyway.
Besides, with the right touch, I could promote
this thing into the biggest gig of all time.
It'd be bigger than ours.
Heaven knows, I-I don't mind Bein' involved with large numbers, right?
I don't need this no more. I--
i don't want this no more. Look, man.
When you beat me, I hurt all over,
and I didn't wanna know from nothin' or nobody, not even my kids.
Hell, every fighter knows that hurt.
And we get sick inside tryin' to live with it, so don't back off now.
Make it right for yourself, or you'll be sorry you didn't.
We held the greatest title in the whole world, babe.
You lost that fight, Rock, for all the wrong reasons.
You lost your edge.
All right,
I know your manager dying had you all messed up inside.
But the truth is, you didn't look hungry.
Now when we fought,
you had that eye of the tiger, man, the edge.
And now you gotta get it back, and the way to get it back...
Is to go back to the beginning, you know what I mean?
[Chuckles]
Maybe we could win it back together.
Eye of the tiger, man.
Why'd you have to come here?
I have a plan. Get back, man.
You got me curious.
You got me curious, Rock.
[Sighs]
Clubber, do you accept the challenge for a rematch with Balboa?
I reject the challenge, because Balboa is no challenge.
But I'd be more than happy to beat up on him some more.
Always said he was nothin'.
I can't wait to see this bum fall.
What do you think of him being trained by Apollo creed? Apollo who?
You talkin' about that old fool, Apollo creed?
Shucks, one has-been teachin' another. Just keep talkin', pal.
That's all Apollo been doin'. Been runnin' off at the mouth lately.
And when I see him, I'm gonna close it for him. All right.
When will the match take place? The sooner, the better.
I'm the champion of the world. Ain't nothin' can be done about that.
I can't be beat, and I won't be beat.
This time I'm gonna train even harder.
There won't be no quick knockdowns.
I'm gonna torture him. I'm gonna crucify him real bad.
[Sportscaster] Hard words from a hard man.
The odds against Balboa making a comeback at 34 are very long indeed.
Can he do it? Most experts doubt it.
Balboa was a fine champion, but his time has passed. I wish him luck.
Don't listen to it, Rocky.
No, do listen to it, Rock.
When this is over, a lot of folks are gonna owe you an engraved apology.
[Sportscaster continues]
And you're gonna owe me a big favor. What favor?
When it's over, hmm?
[Sportscaster continues]
[Paulie] Rocko, come on! We're gonna be late at the airport!
Let's go. Think we forgot anything?
I think we have it all. Maybe another sweater.
California's not that cold. It's great, great. A scorcher.
Okay, listen. I want you to be a good boy, okay?
Okay. And don't give anybody a hard time.
Okay. Give me a kiss.
Mmm. Yeah.
We'll call when we land. Yeah, we'll call.
You gonna be a good boy? All right.
I'll bring you back something.
[Engine starts]
[Man] What ya doin' there?
♪ I been told by [Pedestrians chattering]
♪ A certain fool and the young
♪ they say to take you back
♪ take you back like before
♪ I don't call that a reason ♪
♪ I just call it believin' in myself ♪
♪ need an answer
what the hell are we doin' here in L.A.? Hey, this is where I started.
So? So this is where he starts.
But this place is disgusting. Why don't we stay at your place?
You're missin' the point. Let's just go on and check in and get over to the gym.
Rock, in my opinion, we don't need this place.
This is below you and my sister's standard.
We're gonna give it a try, Paulie. Come on, Adrian.
[Pedestrians chattering]
Ooh.
♪ I don't call that a reason ♪
I don't even have a gun.
♪ Just call it believin' in myself ♪
♪ believin' in myself [Paulie] you know, fun is fun.
I like those kind of things, but this I don't like.
Look at this place. Rats even have more pride than to be caught dead here.
I mean, look at the dump. I just don't like it.
Think of Adrian's health. [Adrian] I'm fine, Paulie.
[Boxers chattering, punches landing]
Hey, check this out.
- Yeah, look at that. - What's he doin'?
- [Chatter stops] - [Man] Yeah. Yeah.
This is where I started.
That's your problem. Rocko, let's leave before they leave us for dead.
Yeah. You see that look in their eyes, Rock?
When we fought, Rock, I trained hard, but I didn't have that look in my eyes.
You had it, and you won.
Gotta get that look back, Rock.
Eye of the tiger, man. Eye of the tiger. Come on.
Come on. Let's go. [Paulie] Look at this place!
No class in here.
Is he always so cheerful? I don't sweat you.
Hey, hey, Paulie. Don't get mentally irregular.
It's a free country. Just don't get irregular. All right?
I don't need no philosophy lesson here.
Apollo, it just takes about six years to get to know him.
Well, I ain't got six years.
Come on, boys. Be nice. Come on.
We're on business.
Hey, hey, champ! Hey, Duke, my man!
Hey, everything's set up. Good. I know you know this man.
Oh, yes. Gonna be good workin' with you.
Certainly had enough of working against you.
How do you feel?
Pretty good, thanks. We been livin' modern, but we're gonna train old.
I'm goin' to talk to some guys. Okay.
Hey, the champ is home!
[Boxers chattering] We've gotta leave. I've got a reputation.
What do you mean, reputation? You heard. I don't like these people.
You don't like 'em?
Maybe they don't like you either, Paulie.
What'd I do to them?
And they call me "punch."
Hey, stallion. Come on over here and meet some of the fellas.
I'll be right back. How you doin', guys?
[All chattering]
[Apollo] That's it. On the toes. On the toes.
On the toes.
Come on. On the toes. On the toes.
Come on, Rocky.
He ain't too frisky. That's why we're here, Paulie.
[Paulie] You're wastin' time. He's got heavy feet.
Try the balls of your feet. Come on, relax, Rock.
Come on. Get those feet out of the concrete.
[Duke] It'll take time, but it'll come.
He can't train to the jungle junk music.
[Duke] Well, relax, Rock.
[Apollo] Here we go. Come on. [Duke] Balls of your feet.
Let your body find a little. Start a new dance called the frog, huh?
Come on, man.
You can't train him like a colored fighter.
- He ain't got no rhythm. - Come on.
How do I look? You look great.
Everything we do works off the jet. Good.
Yeah. Can he swim?
With a name like Rock?
No time to waste. Let's go. Another lap. Another lap. Move it.
Another lap. He ain't no tuna. He belongs back in the gym.
He's gotta stretch and use muscles he never thought he had. Come on, Rock!
Come on. Stretch now. Move it, Rock! Move it!
Nobody can change that much. He's a bruiser.
He ain't no boxer.
You keep tellin' him that and he'll be nothin', you know? Yeah?
Another lap. Come on now. Move it.
Move it, Rock. Move it. Come on. Let's go. Let's go.
That's it. Stretch it. Stretch it out.
That's it. You gotta pull. Hard, now. Hard.
[Man yelling nearby] [Bottle breaking]
[Yelling continues] Shut up, you sterno bums!
I'll squash ya!
There's decent people tryin' to sleep!
Shut up, you honky scum bastard mother.
Who needs this sick place? I don't.
[Drunken chatter]
No class.
Damn, that clubber's strong.
Fifteen rounds is a long time.
You gotta put him away early.
I figure with the pace we gotta set, Rock can last maybe seven or eight rounds.
Then we'll be out of steam, man.
Got to put him away early.
[Gasps] At least the water's hot.
Well, we never really had a honeymoon.
It's not so bad.
We've been in worse places.
[Commentator's voice] In the corner. Rocky's in trouble in round two.
He takes a right. Another right! He's been cut.
Rocky's been cut!
[Apollo] Come on, Rock. Come on, come on now.
Let's go. You gotta get tougher.
Think smooth. Think smooth. Bounce, bounce, bounce.
Toes, toes. On your toes, Rock. On your toes.
On your toes!
Push yourself, Rock! Concentrate.
Let's move it, Rock. Move it now.
Come on, Rock. Come on.
[Duke] Have fun with it. [Apollo] That's it.
That's it. Easy, easy, easy. Smooth.
On the toes. Don't push it. Let it come.
There it is. It'll come.
Just takes time, baby. Just takes time.
[Duke] Come on. Move the head.
Move your head. Up and down.
Come on. Come on. Slip now. Up and down.
In and out. Inside. Inside, baby.
Side to side. Move your head. Watch him now.
Remember, he's got two hands.
Damn, man! What the hell you doin'?
This guy will knock you on your ass!
Come on, Rock, it's not a game.
You wanna live in the hospital for five weeks this time?
You thought I was tough. This chump will kill you!
All right. Come on. Get your head on your shoulders, man.
Think about the fight. Think about the fight.
Clubber Lang, and he's trying to hurt you, Rock. Okay.
Okay, here it comes. Jab. He's jabbin'. He's jabbin'.
He's tryin' to hurt you! You gotta fight him.
You gotta move!
[Commentator's voice] He's taking a beating!
He's up against the ropes.
He's back into the corner.
He's hooked ya! He's hooked ya!
Damn, Rock! Come on!
What's the matter with you? Tomorrow.
Let's do it tomorrow. There is no tomorrow!
There is no tomorrow!
There's just one thing that you gotta remember.
We gotta get some speed.
You gotta get some flexibility. You gotta get some quickness. You understand?
Yeah. That's the only thing we gotta concern ourselves with, Rocky.
Mickey never had me do this.
Yeah. Okay. Here we go.
Ready?
Set. Go!
Come on, come on!
Speed, speed! Come on. Come on!
Come on!
[Mickey's voice] You can't win, Rock.
Hell, you ain't been hungry since you won that belt.
He'll knock you into tomorrow, Rock.
[Rocky's voice wailing]
What's the matter?
It's over. It's all over.
[Sighs]
What's the matter with you?
Can I talk to you?
I want to ask you something important, and I want you to tell me the truth.
- What? - Why'd you come here?
I just don't want it no more.
If it's over because you want it to be over, I'm glad.
I do.
It's just you've never quit anything since I've known you.
I don't know what you want me to say.
I mean, what happened?
How did everything that was so good get so bad?
What's so bad? Tell me. What?
I wrecked everything by not thinking for myself.
Why couldn't Mickey tell me where I was really at right from the start?
He didn't have to carry me and lie to me and make me think...
I was better than I really was, when I wasn't.
- He never lied. - Those fights weren't right.
I never fought anybody who was all in their prime.
There was always some angle to hold onto the title longer than I should've had it.
Do you understand what I'm sayin'? I understand.
But you've gotta understand that he loved you, and that was his job, protecting you.
But protecting don't help nothin'! It only makes things worse.
You wake up after a few years thinking you're a winner, but you're not.
You're really a loser. And so we wouldn't have had the title as long. So what?
It would have been real!
It was real!
Nothing is real if you don't believe in who you are!
I don't believe in myself no more. And when a fighter don't believe, that's it!
He's finished! It's over. That's it.
That's not it! Tell me the truth! That is it!
What are you putting me through, Adrian? You wanna know the truth?
I don't wanna lose what I got.
In the beginning I didn't care what happened to me.
I'd go in the ring, I'd get busted up.
I didn't care! But now there's you. There's the kid.
I don't wanna lose what I got! What do we have that can't be replaced? What?
A house. We got cars. We got money.
We got everything but the truth. What's the truth, damn it?
I'm afraid! All right?
You wanna hear me say it? You wanna break me down?
All right, I'm afraid.
For the first time in my life, I'm afraid.
I'm afraid too. There's nothin' wrong with being afraid.
For me there is. Why? You're human, aren't ya?
I don't know what I am.
All I know is I'm a liar, and because of that, Mickey ain't here no more.
You didn't push him into anything! He was a grown man and he did what he had to do.
And you have no right to feel guilty for what happened. You don't!
You were a champion, and you did what you were expected to do.
And you did what I and everybody else thought you should do.
And you wanna tell me that those fights weren't real?
That you were carried?
Well, I don't believe it! But it doesn't matter what I believe,
because you're the one that's gotta carry that fear around inside you,
afraid that everybody's gonna take things away.
Afraid you're gonna be remembered as a coward, that you're not a man anymore.
Well, none of it's true. But it doesn't matter if I tell you.
Because you're the one that's gotta settle it. Get rid of it.
Because when all the smoke has cleared and everyone's through chanting your name,
it's just gonna be us.
And you can't live like this. We can't live like this.
'Cause it's gonna bother you for the rest of your life.
Look what it's doing to you now.
Apollo thinks you can do it. So do I.
But you gotta wanna do it for the right reasons.
Not for the guilt over Mickey. Not for the people, not for the title.
Not for money or me. But for you.
Just you. Just you alone.
And if I lose? Then you lose!
But at least you lose with no excuses. No fear.
And I know you can live with that.
How'd you get so tough?
I live with a fighter.
I really love you.
I love you.
♪ [Orchestra: "Theme from Rocky"]
♪ [Continues]
No, no, no, rock. No. Just flick it. Just flick it.
Come on, Rock. Come on.
Faster! Come on! One more time.
Good. Five more laps.
Watch it, watch it!
There we go. On your toes.
♪ Gonna fly now
♪ it's all right now
♪ flyin' high now
jab out! Get him!
[Grunting] Get it right. Move faster.
Just wearin' him down.
[Duke] Faster, faster! Go on. Kick him!
[Apollo laughs] Very nice!
♪ [Orchestra continues]
Move your head! Move your head! Beautiful.
Slip, slip! That's right. Under, under.
Under and over, up and down. You got him, baby. Send him out.
[Apollo] That was nice!
- ♪ Getting strong now - on your toes.
♪ Nothing wrong now come on, come on. Speed, Rock, speed.
Faster, faster! Yeah! Good.
♪ Feelin' strong now
now! Yeah.
Come on. Come on!
A regular fish. Hey!
♪ Gonna fly now yeah!
♪ Nothing wrong now
♪ fly
all right!
♪ Fly
[nahan] Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
I'm stu nahan along with bill Baldwin, and we welcome you to Madison square garden,
[chanting] Rocky!
A most exciting backdrop for the rematch
between the former champion, Rocky Balboa...
And the reigning heavyweight champion, Clubber Lang.
We now switch to our remote cameras inside the dressing rooms.
Would you care to comment on how you plan to fight Balboa? What's your strategy?
Don't need any. Balboa's so predictable and stupid.
The man comes straight ahead.
He's tailor made for me, and he's gonna get hurt.
That's good. Bend 'em over, huh?
That's good. How does that look? Okay?
No, I don't hate Balboa. But I pity the fool,
and I will destroy any man who tries to take what I got.
Remember where you came from.
Remember what it took to get you here.
And you remember what he did to you last time. Right?
[Baldwin] Since both men are brawlers, Stu,
with the edge and power going to Clubber Lang,
I would say that the odds are very long...
Against Balboa regaining his title.
Now it's your turn. It's your turn, huh?
What's your prediction for the fight, then?
Prediction? Yes. Prediction.
Pain.
Lang is a brawler who likes to hurt a man to the body.
And Balboa may never have psychologically recovered from that vicious knockout...
That clubber laid on him.
It's time.
Here. What?
I want you to wear these.
Come on, Apollo. These are, uh,
the colors that you wore in our first fight together.
I can't wear your colors. Just wear 'em.
Yeah? Yeah.
Thanks, Apollo. You just make sure you wash 'em before you bring 'em back.
Will do. Will do.
And thanks, Apollo.
And remember, after this you owe me a favor.
What favor?
Bill, I have to agree. Toe-to-toe, Lang is devastating, and he's much too strong.
[Rocky breathing deeply] All right. Listen.
I just want to tell you that I'm proud of you.
Takes a hell of a man to change,
and you're gonna prove it to 'em tonight, right?
Right. You did good, Apollo.
Thanks, Paulie. Okay. Let's do it, Paulie.
[Nahan] Here comes Rocky and Apollo, the two former champions.
[Baldwin] Look at that united states marine corps color guard,
along with the drum and bugle corps.
Magnificent. [Nahan] Tremendous.
Take a look at Rocky. Look at the tenseness, the tautness of that body.
Boy, does he look serious.
[Baldwin] He certainly does. The word is that this is Rocky's last fight.
Win, lose or draw. There he is, the Italian stallion.
Rocky Balboa, climbing into the ring.
Boy, he looks incredibly thin, doesn't he?
I'd say he's gotta be about 20 pounds lighter.
Rocky Balboa, the iron man from Philadelphia!
This crowd is certainly with him tonight. Listen.
Balboa doesn't really have any boxing skill.
I've never seen a fighter though with as much raw determination.
Oh, hold it, stu. Look behind me. Here comes the champion now.
Clubber Lang. Listen to this crowd.
[Nahan] Take a look at those eyes.
I've never seen a guy with such sullen eyes. He is tough.
Clubber, go back where you came from!
[Baldwin] He even belted a spectator on the way in. Did you see that?
Look at that man. Awesome, awesome.
He's tough. Look at that. Clubber Lang,
the heavyweight champion of the world.
Keep it loose-- [Clubber] Hey, fool!
You ready for another beatin'? You should've never came back.
Don't look at him. Let's just be cool.
Hey, boy! Hey, boy!
After I crucify him, you're next.
Just stay out of my face, chump. Don't turn your back on me, sucker!
[Nahan] We got a brawl! Apollo and clubber wanna go at each other.
[Bell dinging] This ring is ready to explode!
The fight is about to officially begin, but these guys wanna start right now!
- Let me go! Let me go! - I'm gonna get you!
- Come on! - Let him go! I want him!
I thought you said be cool! That was cool.
I'm the champ! I'll beat ya like I did last time!
You don't have to look to find me. I'm here.
[Announcer] Good evening...
Ladies and gentlemen and boxing fans around the world. Take this robe off!
Welcome to Madison square garden...
And tonight's heavyweight championship of the world!
[Nahan] This crowd is ready tonight. [Announcer] The red corner:
[Crowd chanting] Rocky! Rocky! The challenger,
weighing 191 pounds.
From the fighting city of Philadelphia,
the former heavyweight champion of the world,
the Italian stallion,
Rocky Balboa!
[Nahan] I'll tell you, he has so slimmed down.
He looks like a middleweight. [Bell dings]
Out of the blue corner,
weighing 237 pounds,
the hard-punching battler from Chicago,
the reigning heavyweight champion of the world,
Clubber Lang! [Crowd booing]
Referee Lou fillipo.
Okay, boys. Let's go.
We went over the rules yesterday. I'm just gonna repeat a few of 'em.
Let's watch the low blows and the rabbit punches.
In case of knockdown, you go to the corner I tell you to,
and you stay there until I tell you to come out.
Is that understood? Any questions?
Okay. Let's go back to your corner now.
I'm gonna bust you up.
Go for it.
[Nahan] Well, here we go. The war is on.
We're just waiting for the bell.
Take my belt off. I'm gonna get that chump.
Don't let this bum let you fight his fight. You're the best!
You're the champ. [Mutters]
Rhythm and power. Rhythm and power. Then jab him. Thanks.
[Crowd chanting] Rocky! Rocky!
[Nahan] Are you ready for round one now? Should be a great fight.
[Baldwin] And here we go. [Nahan] Rocky Balboa.
And he goes right out of his corner. He goes right after Clubber Lang!
He's running right to left, into clubber's place.
What a start of a fight here!
[Baldwin] Another jab. Another jab. And another!
Oh! This is not the Rocky we expected.
- Looks fantastic. - He's dancing like Apollo creed!
[Nahan] Another right. [Apollo] Stay in there!
Look at that right and left to the head!
[Baldwin] Clubber Lang doesn't know what's happening right now.
He's being stunned by this style.
Look at the shots he's taking.
But he can't corner the fleet-footed challenger.
[Baldwin] It's absolutely unbelievable.
[Nahan] Absolutely!
Come on, you oversized hick. Come on! Hit me!
[Nahan] That right hand is just like a trip hammer.
- Rock, tie him up! - [Clubber] Bring it to me. Hit me!
Break it up. Step back. Step back.
[Nahan] Tough first round. Tough first round!
And it is Rocky with a couple of rights and lefts right to the head of Lang.
- Get off! Get off! - [Baldwin] Now it's Lang coming back.
This crowd is going absolutely wild.
[Nahan] There's some left-right combinations by Rocky.
A good left hand!
[Baldwin] This is Rocky Balboa's night!
[Bell dings]
It's a full-time operation getting him back to his corner.
[Nahan] We've got pandemonium in the ring at the end of round one.
[Clubber yelling] They're holding him back. Lang wants more.
I'll get you, fool! He can't realize that the round is over.
All right. All right. You looked great.
- Just don't get crazy and we're home. - I'll kill you, man!
The man's strong.
I'm gonna kill him. I'm gonna kill him!
Now, he's gonna come hard. Right? Yeah.
You keep crowding him. Don't give him a chance to set.
Counter and move. [Nahan] He had Lang at his mercy.
[Baldwin] I don't think Lang knew what hit him there this first round.
[Bell dings] Here we go now. The bell for round two.
Now it's Lang coming out stronger in round two.
But it's Rocky now in his corner.
Rocky is still landing rights and lefts. He's
using rights now in the center of the ring.
A right to the head. Another right to the head.
He's really setting him up. Right. Right. Right.
Five unanswered shots!
- Kill him! Kill him! - [Crowd chanting] Rocky! Rocky!
- Get outta there! - [Clubber] Get back there!
All right! All right!
Get off. Break it up! Break it up.
- What are you doing? - Come on! Come on, Balboa!
[Clubber] Come on! I'm gonna give it to you!
Get your hands up!
Ooh! That right hand hurt Rocky again.
What a fight!
[Baldwin] He's got him in the corner. Balboa's got trouble now.
Hold him, damn it. Hold him!
- Come on, Rocky! Come on! - [Baldwin] This is clubber's round so far.
Lang is taking momentum here. He's holding on Balboa!
[Crowd shouting]
[Baldwin] And Balboa is down! Can he make it up?
- Get up, damn it! - Come on!
Five, six... can he get up? He's in trouble.
But he's up. Seven--
Rocky's gonna-- here comes clubber again!
Lang with the left hand. Lang with another left hand. Now a right!
Another right. A right! Another right!
Down goes Balboa again!
Stop the fight!
Six!
I got some more for you! Get up! I got a lotta moves.
[Baldwin] Here we go again. Clubber coming into him.
Come on! Come on, fool.
Ain't so bad. Ya ain't so bad. Ain't so bad!
[Bell dings] You ain't so bad.
[Clubber] You must be crazy!
You're just a stupid fool! I may be stupid, but I ain't breathing heavy.
He's a fool!
How could he come back from a beating like that?
What the hell are you doing? What the hell are you doing?
It's strategy, that's all. I know what I'm doin'.
No. You don't know.
He's gotta come to you. You the champ. He's nothin'. He's mine!
You stand toe-to-toe, and he'll kill you.
It doesn't take a man to stand there and get your head beat off!
Don't-- he's gettin' tired.
Don't go wastin' your punches. You're the champ!
Don't try to take him out with one punch. Use your head.
Now, you wear him down. He's all ours! Yeah.
I know what I'm doin'. I swear I know what I'm doin'.
Don't tell me what you think! Go out there and do it, Rock. Eye of the tiger.
You understand? Yeah.
Go out there and knock his head off. He's just a man, Rock.
Be more man than him! Go get him! Eye of the tiger!
Eye of the tiger! [Duke] Up and down. Side to side.
[Baldwin] Round three. Tough rounds to call right now.
This is a little slower than the start.
It's my round.
So I'm gonna take you this time.
You're mine.
Come on. Gonna get ya. Come on.
[Nahan] And Rocky throws him three rights to the head.
Then a left. He is back. These are heavyweights.
- Get out! Get out! - Take that!
[Nahan] A sharp left!
Get outta there!
Stick him! Stick him!
Come on, come on. Come on, clubber.
Again, again!
He's gettin' killed. Oh, no, no. He's not gettin' killed. He's gettin' mad.
Come on. Whole world's watching. Knock me out.
Come on, harder! Can't you hit hard?
[Roaring]
No!
Get outta there!
Rocky!
Come on! Get into him, Rock!
Yeah!
My mother hits harder than that. Come on. A little harder.
A little harder, champ! In the face. Come on.
Again. Come on, champ. You ain't so bad.
You ain't nothin'. You ain't nothin'!
Rocky! Rocky!
[Nahan] I see it now. I might believe the strategy now.
He's making Clubber Lang miss now.
You see how he drew him in? Now Rocky's throwing punches.
But look at the punches that Lang is taking!
Look at that. He's lifting him right off the
canvas with those forceful punches to the ribs!
Where does he get that strength from? He's coming.
He's completely psyched out this time!
Lang is confused by all of this.
Obviously the condition that Balboa is in right now, bill.
Look at the condition.
And Lang doesn't know how to defend himself.
- All to the body! Harder punches! - Come on!
Come on! Come on.
Come on. Come on.
[Nahan] This place has gone bananas!
Get up!
Five, six,
seven, eight,
nine, ten.
You're out!
[Crowd cheering, shouting]
Yea! [Nahan] He's on the floor in ecstasy!
Bowing, praying there, beating the floor!
And there he is, the new heavyweight champion of the world!
Rocky Balboa!
Rocky is exhausted!
[Rocky] We did it!
[Announcer] Ladies and gentlemen, the winner by knockout.
Are you all right?
Never better. Never better.
[Announcer] The heavyweight champion of the world,
the Italian stallion,
Rocky Balboa!
[Crowd cheering]
[Apollo] Come on. We made a deal!
I know, but this is extremely crazy. Yeah. Mentally irregular.
Yeah. But it makes all the sense in the world.
You owe me a favor. I know, but, uh, when'd you think of this?
About three years ago. Oh, this is very crazy, Apollo.
Look, stallion. When you won that last fight, you won by one second.
You beat me by one second. That's very hard for a man of my intelligence to handle.
Is it? Didn't you say after I beat you, you learned how to live with it?
I lied. Oh, you lied. [Laughs]
So now you just gotta prove it to yourself, right?
Just myself. No TV, no newspapers. Just you and me.
Nothin'. Just you and me. Age before beauty.
Anything you say, stallion. All right. I'll do all the work. All right?
I'll tell you, Apollo, you better go slow,
'cause you ain't as young as springtime no more.
I'm still young enough to whip your butt, stallion.
Oh, yeah? How you gonna do that? You taught me everything you know.
Almost everything. You gotta remember now.
You fight great, but I'm a great fighter. You ready?
Absolutely. You know, stallion,
it's too bad we gotta get old, right?
Aw, just keep punchin', Apollo.
Wanna ring the bell?
All right. Ding, ding.
Come on, stallion.
[Laughs] Come on. Come on.
Boy, you really move good for an older guy.
You're lookin' good, stallion. I taught you well.
I think you taught me too good. You can fly.
Look out now. You don't want any of this. Come on.
Maybe I'm in here with the wrong guy.
Come on. Watch yourself. Are you ready? [Bell dings]
♪ It's the eye of the tiger it's the thrill of the fight ♪
♪ risin' up to the challenge of our rival ♪
♪ and the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night ♪
♪ and he's watching us all with the eye ♪
♪ of the tiger
♪ risin' up I'm back on the street ♪
♪ did my time took my chances ♪
♪ went the distance now I'm back on my feet ♪
♪ just a man and his will to survive ♪
♪ so many times it happens too fast ♪
♪ you change your passion for glory ♪
♪ don't lose your grip on the dreams of the past ♪
♪ you must fight just to keep them alive ♪
♪ it's the eye of the tiger it's the thrill of the fight ♪
♪ risin' up to the challenge of our rival ♪
♪ and the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night ♪
♪ and he's watching us all with the eye ♪
♪ of the tiger
♪ face-to-face out in the heat ♪
♪ hangin' tough stayin' hungry ♪
♪ they stack the odds still we take to the street ♪
♪ for the kill with the skill to survive ♪
♪ it's the eye of the tiger it's the thrill of the fight ♪
♪ risin' up to the challenge of our rival ♪
♪ and the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night ♪
♪ and he's watching us all with the eye ♪
♪ of the tiger
♪ risin' up straight to the top ♪
♪ had the guts got the glory ♪
♪ went the distance now I'm not gonna stop ♪
♪ just a man and his will to survive ♪
♪ it's the eye of the tiger it's the thrill of the fight ♪
♪ risin' up to the challenge of our rival ♪
♪ and the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night ♪
♪ and he's watching us all with the eye ♪
♪ of the tiger
♪ the eye of the tiger