Great breakdown of a fictional fighters career, fun question. Given Rock was't supposed to be able beat Creed in the first place, and his heart and effort in losing gained him enough credibility to force (via fan out cry over the decision in the form of hate mail to Creed) a rematch in which he WON the heavyweight championship of the world, it leans in the opposite direction from over rated. We could claim it was Creeds age that got Rock there, but it was still an amazing accomplishment. But when you take into account his win over Lang in their second fight, you have to start acknowledging that Rock turned into the real McCoy. Somewhere after those 20 losses Rock took that next step, and then a step higher. Lang was young, in his prime and Rock avenged a loss to him. That puts Rock in another class. I would say Rocky was UNDERrated his whole career, and fought his way through his early adversity to eventually emerge as if not the best certainly one of the best boxers Hollywood ever put on the silver screen

Nope, in fact, he's always the underdog.

Slickster answered like a typical chimp. He said you think too much, which is the main reason why his people have never won a Nobel Prize in categories that matter such as economy, mathematics, physics and chemistry or why they have never invented anything of technological and scientific value.

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Apparently thinking too much in black culture is a bad thing!

His heart won him fights

Dude, u think too much looool

WAY!

Light hearted boxing question here, but was Rocky Balboa an over rated fighter in the finctional Rocky world?

First off, in Rocky 1, he is known to have 20 defeats already to his name, so his record is terrible and he never deserved his title fight.

He then loses to Creed but avenges the loss in Rocky 2. However, this was Creeds final fight, so we should assume Creed is way past prime and had already dominated the division in his day, which, is fine, but then Rocky never gives Creed a rubber match.

Instead Rocky fights a bunch of fighters who by Mickeys admission are good fighters, but not killers like Clubber Lang. So as champion, Rocky's reign is mainly as a protected fighter.

In the first Lang fight, Rocky gets killed. His chin was totally exposed in this fight. OK, he avenges the loss again in very impressive fashion, but again, avoids a rubber match.

So both Creed and Lang gave Balboa a rematch, but both times, after his wins, Balboa avoids a 3rd fight. And Lang is supposed to be a young fighter, so he would still be fighting and would want his title back.

Next, Rocky fights Drago. Drago is pro after the USSR allows fighters to fight pro. So he has only fought 3 rounds till now with headguards. But in his 1st pro fight, he takes Balboa to the 15th and really troubles him, flooring him several times. That for me reflects poorly on Balboa.

Rocky 5 is outside the ring and the final film was a charity fight, so these don't count.

So , was Rocky over rated?