Very Good Fight Story

Rating: 9/10 (7 March 2019)

Reluctantly, Rocky Balboa (Stallone) agrees to manage the new Heavyweight Champion of the World Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan) - and he is often referred to as Donny - to go against Russian boxer Victor Drago (Florian Munteanu) whose father Ivan (Dolph Lundgren) killed Adonis' father Apollo in the ring.
I have always said that there are 2-thingns that we can always count on most of the time: A fight movie and a movie about a child who goes to Heaven and comes back and tells what was experienced there. Here we go.
The movie opens with an Adonis' fight when he becomes Champion of the World, then a soap opera scenario between Adonis and Bianca (Tessa Thompson) who will become Adonis's wife. Next we see a fight between Adonis and Victor Drago when Adonis wins by Victor being disqualified for an illegal hit and all this is without Rocky in Adonis' corner.
Then later Rocky becomes Adonis' trainer to again fight Victor and teaches Adonis to train differently along with some boxing techniques not previously used by Adonis.
Notables: Brigitte Nielsen as Victor Drago's mother; Phylicia Rashad as Adonis' mother. Wood Harris as Tony, Adonis' manager against the first fight with Victor Drago and he is also he one to let Adonis know Victor wants a rematch, but in Russia.
So we have a very good fight story that includes a little bit of a Soap, concerns over the hearing of Adonis' baby, determination, commitment, loyalty and doing the right thing for the right reason.
The fight at the end l gets us twisting, and dodging blows on the couch we are on. The fight looked too real. I don't know how they do it but the body blows really look too real to just be movie magic. (But that is what it is.
I did notice that when anyone greeted Rocky, they never used the term "champ" but instead Rocky or Mr. Balboa. I mean he was a champion of the world at one time and usually "Champ" is used. Quite strange.
The ending was very good, but I would liked to have seen that street light in front of Rocky's house in Philly finally light up after Rocky's complaint that it hasn't worked for years, but that is just me. Then again Rocky finally gets up the courage to visit his estranged son Robert (Milo Ventimiglia) who now has a son Logan (Robbie Johns). I mention all this because you will see all again in another sequel to the Rocky Balboa story. Pretty sure.
Yes, there will be sequels, but right now we are waiting for that child to go to Heaven and come back and tell us what was experienced there. Can't wait. (9/10)
Violence: Yes.
Sex: No.
Nudity: No.
Humor; No
Language: No.
Rating: A