Damn, the film “Creed” really does follow the first Rocky doesn’t it?

In the aforementioned film, Adonis Creed gains an opportunity to fight for the Light Heavyweight Champion, that being the braggadocios and soon to be incarcerated “Pretty” Ricky Conlan.  Conlan was undefeated, and spoiler alert, remained so after his fight with Adonis, but he left his native Liverpool still a hero and humbled at the same time.

We have to hand it to Zach Morris as we didn’t think that he would ever play a believable athlete.  Actually he did so well, that it took an episode to realize that Mark-Paul Gosselaar was in fact Mike Lawson!

Every boxing film needs a villain and that is exactly what we got in Miguel “Magic” Escobar, a Hispanic thug who tried to bait Billy “The Great” Hope into to defending his Light Heavyweight Title against him.  He managed to eventually win the title but you don’t have to have watched the film to know whom he would defend that title against do you?

Leo “The Lion” Sporino was the son of Pete Sporino, a boxer who hoped that Rocky Balboa’s eventual trainer, Mickey Goldmill would take an interest in.  Leo would become ranked #4 in the word and would take on Apollo Creed’s progeny in a losing effort, but this is one of the better non-featured boxers in the Rocky franchise.