If 1976’s Rocky was about a boxing underdog going the distance, Rocky II was about proving that courage is more than achieving fifteen minutes of fame. Sylvester Stallone’s breakout character had ...

Sylvester Stallone earned $2.5 million from the first Rocky film after taking a gamble on himself, rejecting a $300,000 offer for the script and instead negotiating a percentage of the film's profits.

After shocking the world by going the distance with heavyweight champion Apollo Creed, Rocky Balboa becomes a national hero. However, that brutal match from the first film left him injured and ...