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Creed (2015) could have been another spin off, but Ryan Coogler turned it into a powerful legacy story. Stallone first refused to return as Rocky until Coogler’s pitch about his father convinced him, leading to one of Stallone’s finest performances.

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Sylvester Stallone on how Creed almost didn't happen: By 2006, Stallone thought he was finished with Rocky. He'd just wrapped Rocky Balboa, a film he had to fight to make in the first place. "It's tough when you say, hey, I got this great idea about a 60 year old boxer. It's really...3 this is the worst idea ever. But anyway, it got done." He continues: "I was very satisfied with the results. And that was 2006. And I thought, okay, this is my crowning accomplishment." Stallone describes waving goodbye to the audience, certain he was done with the character that had defined his career for three decades. Then eight years later, an unknown filmmaker came knocking with a pitch. "He goes, well, I'm an unknown filmmaker, I haven't made any movies yet. But I have this idea about bringing you back and this character, Apollo Creed. See, Apollo, you didn't know this, had an illegitimate son. So he's telling me the story and I go, very interesting." Stallone passed. The filmmaker (Ryan Coogler) went away and made Fruitvale Station with Michael B. Jordan, which swept awards at Cannes. Then he came back and pitched Stallone again. "He doesn't quit, does he? He's really a pesky guy, you know?" What eventually won Stallone over wasn't just Coogler's persistence: "In this movie, Rocky goes into a different kind of fight. He's not in the ring anymore. And he's dealing with life issues, which is much more realistic in some situations. And Michael, who plays Adonis, comes into his life, and they're from absolute opposite sides of the world, and slowly they begin to meld in kind of a family relationship." The result was a film Stallone's own daughters (who had spent years rolling their eyes at Rambo) finally approved of. "They went, finally, you've made a decent film."

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Sylvester Stallone on the unwritten initiation rite of every Rocky film: Asked about the boxing in Creed, Stallone explains that he warned Michael B. Jordan early on what he was signing up for. Carl Weathers had hit him. Dolph Lundgren had put him in the hospital. Mr. T had "corrected" him. "You really haven't been in a Rocky film until you've taken a shot," Stallone recalls telling Jordan. "So you have to have an initiation into the club." Jordan's response: "Bring it on." The man on the other end of the glove was British heavyweight Tony Bellew... six foot three, and throwing the kind of punches that don't look like much on camera precisely because they're real. Stallone explains the physics: "When fighters throw punches, it isn't like in the movies… You miss, and there's these big, overemphasized punch boxers. Boom. It's very, very tight. That's what makes it so powerful. And to the untrained eye, you say, ah, it doesn't look like much." Then he turns to Jordan: "Well, ask him, were you knocked out?" Jordan doesn't deny it: "Not knocked out, but I was definitely smelling the ground for a lot longer than you were." Stallone, gleeful: "Oh, you were snoring." The kicker is that they didn't even get the shot the first time. The camera missed the punch. They had to run it back on a second take... and Jordan, already dazed from the first one, walked back in and took another. The footage that survived was caught on a phone from the sidelines. "He set me up," Jordan says. Stallone admits it without hesitation: he knew Bellew was going to connect. He wanted it on film. He wanted to send it to his daughters as a warning. Watching the replay back, Jordan narrates his own KO in slow motion: "The head comes, body goes." Then, drily: "Yeah. That wasn't too fun." The bit lands as comedy, but underneath it is a real point about how the Rocky franchise has stayed credible for forty years. The hits are real. The actors get hurt. Every name in the lineage (Weathers, Lundgren, Mr. T, now Jordan) has paid the same tax. It's the reason the fights read as fights instead of choreography, and the reason audiences keep showing up.

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