Rocky Story Line. Apollo Creed's managers choose palooka Rocky Balboa, an ignorant debt collector from Philadelphia, to take up the world heavyweight boxing champion as a PR stunt. Rocky joins forces with Mickey Goldmill to make the most of this once in a lifetime opportunity.
To learn more about Sylvester Stallone, why not look at one of his Source first films? Not at all! The one that made him famous, a movie that he wrote all by himself: Rocky. It's partly based on Stallone's own life, but he portrays his own struggles as those of a low-ranking boxer in the movie.