Rocky's doctor, Presley Jensen, reveals that Rocky is suffering from a condition called Cavum septi pellucidi, which is brain damage caused by extremely heavy blows to the head. The effects are seemingly permanent and irreversible.
Following the funeral, Rocky faces depression mixed with anger and hopelessness. His self-confidence and self-respect are gone in the wake of the loss and the loss of Mickey.
Unfortunately, Adrian from Rocky is written to have lost a battle with cancer off-screen in the time between 1990's Rocky V and Rocky Balboa. While promoting Rocky Balboa in a 2006 interview with Moviehole, Stallone explained that Adrian would've been much...
In autumn of 2001, Adrian learned that she was dying from ovarian cancer. And after a few months, Adrian Balboa passed peacefully away on January 11, 2002 in her sleep, losing her battle with cancer. After her death, her widower Rocky opens an Italian restaurant named after her called Adrian's.
Rocky Balboa actually got smarter in Rocky III. In the first two Rocky films, Balboa was an uneducated part-time club fighter and mob enforcer in South Philadelphia. Although Rocky has a heart of gold and street smarts, he was humiliated when others found out he didn't know how to read in Rocky II.
Sylvester Stallone as Robert "Rocky" Balboa, "The Italian Stallion": Heavyweight Champion of the World, who suffers from brain damage caused by the head-trauma he received at the hands of Ivan Drago in the previous film. Because of his injuries, Rocky is forced to officially retire from boxing.
An accident during childbirth left part of his face and tongue paralyzed, giving him his distinctive snarled expression and slurred speech. An outcast his entire life, Stallone saw acting as an outlet, though his face and voice were factors in his constant rejection for roles.
Unfortunately, Adrian from Rocky is written to have lost a battle with cancer off-screen in the time between 1990's Rocky V and Rocky Balboa.
Despite being the face of the Rocky franchise, Stallone chose not to appear in Creed III due to creative differences with producer Irwin Winkler as well as with Jordan, although he is still a producer on the film.
At the beginning of Rocky III, Mick insists that the up-and-coming Clubber Lang (Mr. T) is a "killer" and that Rocky shouldn't fight him. When Rocky takes the fight anyway, Mick reluctantly agrees to coach his fighter, but a pre-fight argument sees Mick pushed by Lang, resulting in the coach going into cardiac arrest.
Rocky doesn't agree to train Adonis for the initial fight, causing the relationship to be broken for several months, until they mend the fences to work together for the second fight (after the first did not have a proper ending).
Creed. Adrian doesn't physically appear in Creed, having previously died from ovarian cancer, but photos of her are seen around Rocky's restaurant (which was named after her). When Rocky goes to the graveyard he first goes and puts her brother Paulie's favorite alcoholic drink on his gravestone next to Adrian's.
Talia Shire Is the MVP of “Rocky”
Shire is a revelation as Rocky's love Adrian, playing a woman desperate not to be seen. Their relationship is what elevates “Rocky” beyond another underdog story and makes it one of cinema's great love stories.
Stallone's face was pulled by forceps at birth, severing nerves. This causes him to speak with a slight slur. Interesting trivia point. The actor who played his son in Rocky Balboa (the sixth Rocky movie) and at the end of Creed II, Milo Ventimiglia (he stars in the hit show This Is Us), suffers from something similar.
Johnson was a freshman at the University of Miami on a football scholarship when the beast took its first big chunk out of him. Sidelined by a serious shoulder injury, he spiraled down into lethargy and despair. “I didn't know what it was,” he told the Hollywood Reporter in a 2014 interview.
Rocky V (1990)
With his character's death, Carl Weathers departed the franchise after Rocky IV.
Why is Sylvester Stallone absent from 'Creed III'? The 76-year-old actor said in an interview that he did not participate in the filming of the movie because the story had been given a direction with which he did not agree.
What's the Story? Inspired once again by the memory of his beloved Adrian, 60-year-old ROCKY BALBOA comes out of retirement to fight the current world champion, an arrogant kid called Mason "The Line" Dixon (Antonio Carver), who embodies a business that's notoriously corrupt and dulled by mediocre talents.
He was very loyal to Rocky and a good uncle to Robert. It is only after Tommy hits Paulie that Rocky is moved enough to fight him.
Young's character of Paulie Pennino will not be appearing in the sixth sequel to the original 1976 film; in fact the new plotline to the series reveals that Paulie has passed away and rests alongside his sister Adrian (played by actress Talia Shire in the first five Rocky films), whose character succumbed to cancer in ...
Tommy Morrison's character “Tommy Gunn,” who Stallone trains in the fifth installment of the franchise, sensationally kills off Rocky at the end. Behind-the-scenes script information revealed the news in a shocking twist to the early draft of the movie plot.
Not the first person you would associate with the word genius, Sylvester Stallone is considered one of the smartest guys in Hollywood and, like his equally brawny mate Dolph, has a Mensa IQ score of 160.
The most famous fictional character from Philadelphia, Rocky Balboa, has an infamously inaccurate Philadelphia accent.
Starring alongside Michael B. Jordan, Stallone reprised his role in what would eventually come to be known as the Creed franchise. Things turned sour, and there's only one way in which Stallone will reunite with the actors if some people are not involved.