The Rocky saga is remembered as a feel-good underdog story, but as the sequels went on, the franchise gradually got darker and darker – and I never realized it at the time. Rocky Balboa is a ...

From the original 1976 movie to the new Creed III, here are all the films about boxer Rocky Balboa's universe. ... Rocky Balboa is a poor, working-class boxer and a debt collector for the mafia.

Stallone first starred as “Rocky” in 1976, the then little-known actor-screenwriter’s breakout hit about a loan shark debt collector in Philadelphia who catches his big break in the ring.

Here, we're introduced to working class Philadelphia citizen Rocky Balboa (Stallone), the debt collector for a Mafia loanshark who moonlights as a small-time boxer.