A change of pace

Rating: Null/10 (16 June 2003)

In this Rocky movie,Rocky is now the Heavyweight boxing champion of the world and is very popular all over the globe. Rocky now appears in commercials,magazines,guest on TV shows and interviews. But Rocky doesn't know a hungry contender is willing to show the world that Rocky's not the best fighter. Mickey (Rocky's manager-trainer-mentor) has watched this rising contender knocked out opponents within a drop of a hat. Mickey sees that this man means business,and at a ceremony he challenged Rocky. Rocky didn't have the hunger he use to have in his earlier days (Rocky 1&2) and did not took his opponent seriously. This is similar to when Apollo was champion and fought Rocky for the first time. In this movie Mickey dies due to heart complications during the mayhem between Rocky and the new challenger Clubber Lang (as known to the world as Mr.T). Clubber was a street-wise brawler from Chicago and pounds on his opponents unmercifully. Now Rocky being unfocused and haven't trained properly eventually lost to Clubber Lang. But Rocky join forces with his old nemesis Apollo Creed to put Clubber away. The training scenes are the most rememberable part of the movie and how they bond so well together. Though I realize in this movie the only reason Apollo wanted to help Rocky was because Clubber disrespected Apollo before Rocky's first fight with Clubber. Being that he saw Rocky wanted to get back at Clubber Apollo wanted to involve himself with Rocky's training. Apollo was a hustler he talk to Rocky about not having the hungry while fighting Clubber Lang that he had when he fought him. He also made Rocky wear his boxing shorts he wore in the first movie,I guess it was to make him feel as if he was in the ring to fight Clubber. In the second round Clubber got the best of Rocky and Apollo yelled at Rocky as if he was losing the fight himself. That why Apollo said to him "you owe me a big favor",and that favor was to see if he and Rocky still had the "eye of the tiger".