Rocky Themes

Those big, gaudy championship belts people win for boxing, wrestling, fantasy football, and waffle eating aren't about the fashion statement… which is good because unless you're Liberace (champio...

It stinks to lose. And it stinks even more to lose so many times that you get branded with a permanent '90s throwback L on your forehead. For loser. Rocky is a loser for most of the movie, but he's...

A few decades before Christina Aguilera, Rocky had ambitions to be a fighter. But ambitions are nothing without the personal drive to put in all the work and succeed. Rocky has to find motivation t...

If boxers were simply violent people who wanted to beat the snot out of one another, they'd scrap in the streets. But the competition aspect of fighting is as critical as the visceral thrill of sma...