10 things to know about 'Rocky Balboa'

CBS Sportsline - "Tearing the old gyms down for the new gyms, I don't know. The new gyms, to me, they lack a certain virile, right-of-passage that these old gyms have." 2. Making it real: During the fight sequence, Stallone wanted the feel of a heavyweight fight
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EDITOR'S CHOICE
This Is Bolton - ROBIN White made a winning start to his professional career in front of his hometown crowd at the Reebok.. The Farnworth light-heavyweight defeated durable Welshman Mark Phillips on points on his fight debut. The 26-year-old dominated the four-round
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ROCKY BALBOA (2006)
Rope of Silicon - Former heavyweight champion Rocky Balboa steps out of retirement and back into the ring, putting himself against a new rival in But when his desire to fight in small, regional competitions is trumped by promoters calling for a rematch of the cyber
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Balboa's Back: Stallone Revives Rocky
Baltimore Sun - A 60-year-old in the ring against a heavyweight champ in his prime? Stallone knows what people are saying about "Rocky Balboa Inspired by a title fight in which a hopelessly outclassed boxer hung in tenaciously with Muhammad Ali, Stallone wrote the
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Sordelet's career packs a punch
Variety - It seems like no one gets smacked in the face on a stage these days unless Rick Sordelet is there to supervise. For more than 10 years, Sordelet has reigned as legit's heavyweight champion of fight directing, punching up the battle plans for more
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Q&A with Joe Calzaghe
CBS Sportsline - Maybe one day if the Maskaev thing doesn't happen, which I think is a stupid to do a fight at heavyweight. If he wants to fight a true champion, he should fight me. 15rounds: Will 20 title defense be a nice even number to finish
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Return of Rocky is a surprise knockout
Daily Telegraph - Rather than being called Rocky VI, in keeping with the titles of previous releases, the film is called Rocky Balboa and sees the now 59-year-old hero back in working-class Philadelphia preparing to fight the world heavyweight champion. Stallone, now
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At the Movies: `Rocky Balboa' straddles nostalgia, self-parody
Cumberland County Sentinel - But when an ESPN computer simulator pits him in his prime against the current heavyweight champion, Mason "The Line" Dixon (retired light heavyweight champ Antonio Tarver), Rocky gets the bug for that tried-and-true one last fight. No one thinks he
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HOLLYWOOD, Florida
Examiner - 7 days ago - Two-time heavyweight champion Michael Moorer made quick work of his first fight since December 2004, stopping Cliff Couser in the first round Saturday night. Toney misses news conference to hype South Florida fight 10 days ago - A South
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WHO YOU CALLING OLD?
San Francisco Gate - In any other era, a 60-year-old Sylvester Stallone fighting against the heavyweight champion of the world would be ridiculous Who would win in a fight -- the old guys or the young guys? Next, imagine actors Clint Eastwood, Jack Nicholson and
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