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 ...

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.

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.

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.

Rocky has to be the most successful bad film ever made. Released 40 years ago this month, Sylvester Stallone’s underdog boxing phenomenon was nominated for 10 Oscars.