Rocky Balboa
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fictional character in the Rocky film series
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Vinony's link graph records 222 inbound references to Rocky Balboa, and connects out to Philadelphia, boxing and Rocky II.
Vinony files it under Culture of Philadelphia, Fictional American people of Italian descent and Fictional Catholics.
Vinony links it to 29 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- First appearance
- Rocky (1976)
- Last appearance
- Creed II (2018)
- Created by
- Sylvester Stallone
- Based on
- Chuck Wepner , Rocky Marciano
- Portrayed by
- Sylvester Stallone
- Full name
- Robert Balboa
- Alias
- Rocky
- Nicknames
- The Italian Stallion , The Pride of Philadelphia , Philadelphia's Favorite Son , The Iron Horse, Stallion, Uncle Rock, Rocco, Rock, Meatball
- Title
- 2x World Heavyweight Champion
- Occupation
- Professional boxer , Restaurant owner and union butcher, Boxing trainer, Loan Shark Collector
- Spouse
- Adrianna Pennino Balboa (deceased)
- Children
- Robert Balboa Jr. (son)
- Relatives
- Paulie Pennino (brother-in-law; deceased) , Logan Balboa (grandson) , Donnie Creed (surrogate nephew) , Amara Creed (surrogate great-niece; goddaughter)
- Religion
- Roman Catholic
- Nationality
- American
- Ethnicity
- Italian
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Given name
- Robert
- Named after
- Rocky Marciano
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Philadelphia
- Spouse
- Adrian Pennino
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Student of
- Apollo Creed
- Creator
- Sylvester Stallone
- Performer
- Sylvester Stallone
- Image
- Sylvester Stallone Rocky VI 2005.jpg
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- enemy
- Ivan Drago
- student
- Adonis Creed
- present in work
- Rocky
- different from
- Rocky Balboa
- date of birth
- 1946-04-06
- birth name
- Robert Balboa
- nickname
- Rocky
- ethnic group
- Italian Americans
- Commons category
- Rocky Balboa
- inspired by
- Chuck Wepner
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Encyclopedic overview
Robert "Rocky" Balboa (also known by his ring name the Italian Stallion) is a fictional character and the titular protagonist of the Rocky franchise. The character was created by Sylvester Stallone, who has also portrayed him in eight of the nine films in the franchise. He is depicted as a working class or poor Italian-American from the slums of Philadelphia who started out as a club fighter and "enforcer" for a local Philly Mafia loan shark. He is portrayed as overcoming the obstacles that had occurred in his life and in his career as a professional boxer.
While the story of his first film was partly inspired by a 1975 fight between underdog Chuck Wepner and heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali (which nearly went the 15 round distance despite the odds), the inspiration for the name, iconography and fighting style came from boxing legend Rocco Francis "Rocky Marciano" Marchegiano, though his surname coincidentally also resembles that of Middleweight Boxing Champion Thomas Rocco "Rocky Graziano" Barbella.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rocky Balboa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.