Question: Hot Shots! featuring Charlie Sheen includes scenes spoofing a film about a boxer named Rocky Balboa, who is portrayed by whom in the original 1976 film?

Context articles: Hot Shots (dance companies)
Rocky
A Letter from Death Row (film)
Rocky (film series)
Apollo Creed
Rocky Balboa (film)
Rocky Balboa: The Best of Rocky
No Code of Conduct
Hot Shots!
Charlie Sheen

The Hot Shots is a collective name for two closely related Swedish dance companies based in Stockholm, Sweden: The Rhythm Hot Shots and the Harlem Hot Shots.
 The Hot Shots specialize in faithful reproductions of African-American dance scenes in American films from the 1920s, 30s, and 40s.
 Dances that they perform include Lindy Hop, Tap dance, Cakewalk, Charleston, and Black Bottom.
 The members of the Hot Shots are also respected dance instructors and accomplished social dancers.
 The goals of The Rhythm Hot Shots and the Harlem Hot Shots are the same.
Rocky is a 1976 American sports drama film directed by John G. Avildsen and both written by and starring Sylvester Stallone.
 It tells the rags to riches American Dream story of Rocky Balboa, an uneducated but kind-hearted working class Italian-American boxer working as a debt collector for a loan shark in the slums of Philadelphia.
 Rocky starts out as a small-time club fighter, and later gets a shot at the world heavyweight championship.
 The film also stars Talia Shire as Adrian, Burt Young as Adrian's brother Paulie, Burgess Meredith as Rocky's trainer Mickey Goldmill, and Carl Weathers as the champion, Apollo Creed.
A Letter From Death Row is a 1998 psychological thriller film directed by Marvin Baker and Bret Michaels, lead singer of the hard rock band Poison.
 Bret Michaels also wrote the film and starred in it.
 The film was released by Sheen Michaels Entertainment, a company created by Bret Michaels and actor Charlie Sheen.
 The film was produced by Shane Stanley and also stars Martin Sheen, Charlie Sheen, and Kristi Gibson, who was Michaels' girlfriend at the time.
Rocky is a series of boxing films based on the eponymous, fictional character Rocky Balboa, played in each film by Sylvester Stallone.
 The films by order of release date are: "Rocky" (1976), "Rocky II" (1979), "Rocky III" (1982), "Rocky IV" (1985), "Rocky V" (1990), "Rocky Balboa" (2006) and "Creed" (2015).
 The film series has grossed more than $1.4 billion at the worldwide box office.
Apollo Creed is a fictional character from the "Rocky" films, initially portrayed as the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world.
 He was played by Carl Weathers.
 He is a tough but agile African-American boxer.
 The character was inspired by the real-life champion Muhammad Ali, having what one author remarked as the same "brash, vocal, [and] theatrical" personality.
 Protagonist Rocky Balboa, Creed's rival in "Rocky" and "Rocky II", faces underdog odds (five-to-one in "Rocky II") and views Creed with respect, pointedly refusing the prodding of a reporter to "trash talk" against Creed by laconically remarking, "He's great."
Rocky Balboa also known as Rocky VI is a 2006 American sports drama film written, directed by, and starring Sylvester Stallone.
 The film, which features Stallone as underdog boxer Rocky Balboa, is the sixth film in the "Rocky" series that began with the Academy Award-winning "Rocky" thirty years earlier in 1976.
 The film portrays an aging Balboa in retirement, a widower living in Philadelphia, and the owner and operator of a local Italian restaurant called "Adrian's," named after his late wife.
Rocky Balboa: The Best of Rocky is a compilation album of music and short dialogue clips from all six "Rocky" films, named after the sixth installment, "Rocky Balboa".
 It was released on December 26, 2006 by Capitol Records, the same day as the 30th anniversary re-release of the original "Rocky" soundtrack.
No Code of Conduct is a 1998 action crime thriller film directed by Bret Michaels.
 The film stars Charlie Sheen, and Martin Sheen as father-and-son vice unit detectives, along with Mark Dacascos who portrays Charlie Sheen's partner.
 The film was released as a direct-to-video feature in some countries, including: Australia, Sweden, Japan, the Czech Republic, Argentina, Brazil, Azerbaijan, Russia and Turkey.
 Bret Michaels is credited as Director, Screenwriter, Composer (Music Score), Actor and Executive Producer.
 Charlie Sheen's credits in this release include Actor, Screenwriter and Executive Producer.
Hot Shots!
 is a 1991 comedy film which stars Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino, Lloyd Bridges, Jon Cryer, Kevin Dunn, Kristy Swanson, and Bill Irwin.
 It was directed by Jim Abrahams, co-director of "Airplane!
", and was written by Abrahams and Pat Proft.
 It was followed by a sequel, "Hot Shots!
 Part Deux" in 1993.
 Both Sheen and Cryer would later costar in the TV series "Two and a Half Men", with Ryan Stiles playing a recurring role.
 The film is primarily a parody of "Top Gun", with some scenes spoofing other popular films, including "9½ Weeks", "Dances with Wolves", "Marathon Man", "Rocky", "Superman" and "Gone with the Wind".
Carlos Irwin Estévez (born September 3, 1965), known professionally as Charlie Sheen, is an American actor.
 Sheen became famous for a series of successful films such as "Platoon" (1986), "Wall Street" (1987), "Young Guns" (1988), "Eight Men Out" (1988), "Major League" (1989), "Hot Shots!
" (1991), and "The Three Musketeers" (1993).