No. Apollo retired after the second fight. That is why he is training and motivating Rocky in the third movie. Clubber Lang Mr. T insulted Creed before the first Rocky-Lang fight. This was Apollos way of getting even. Creed probably could have taken Lang but his career was over. Apollo came out of retirement to get literally killed by Ivan Drago. That was Rockys way of revenge to beat Drago.

Yes Rocky was scared sh..less that this fictional movie role would not do good at the box office.

Its just a movie I think your looking at it a little to deeply

its a movie man

Ummm. its a movie

Anyone else agree this was a bich move on Balboas's part??

He barely won the title by a couple of seconds after 30 brutal rounds, most of which he lost, and he never even had the professional courtesy to give Creed a shot back at his old title,....

instead he went on some world tour fighting no-hope "paper champions" as his own trainer/manager Mic put it, until he ran into the Clubber Lang buzzsaw in '83..

What's more: Apollo Creed gave The Rock an IMMEDIATE rematch after their first bout when he never even had to.... and if i remember correct , Apollo even gave him the rematch again on his home soil of Philly when again he didn't have to

and then that fkcin greaser basically turns around and hi-tails it out of town with the belt and never even tries to settle the score once and for all with a great champion like Apollo Creed.??!?!!??

Imagine if Casius Clay and Joe Frazier only fought 2 fights against each other?!? May be if Rocky had actually fought him a 3rd time like a man would have, may be Apollo wouldn't still have been looking for closure when he went out and got himself killed against the much younger, stronger Ivan Drago

of course, this is completley LOST on the biased, white media elites...even though it is clear as day for all to see