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2 de fev. de 2024 · By Diana Dasrath and Antonio Planas. LOS ANGELES — Carl Weathers, the actor best known as Apollo Creed in the “Rocky” movies and more recently for his role in the hit "Star Wars" series "The...
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Early Life
Apollo Creed was born on August 17th, 1942 in Los AngelesCounty, California to his middle class mother and father. Creed was a natural athlete since his childhood, playing Junior league baseball, wrestling, and football. In 1960, he graduated from High School, and went to play on college football team for sometime.
Professional boxing career
Creed began boxing in the mid to late-1960s, circa 1968, around the age of 26, and it is revealed in the video game Rocky Legends that Creed's first fight was against Tony "Duke" Evers, who at this time was an aging boxer. At the end of the fight, Creed approached Duke and mentioned how it would be good to have an experienced fighter managing his career and training him, Happy to be able to continue in boxing, Duke accepted the offer as manager and began training him at the Delphi Boxing Acad...
Before Rocky
In the coming years Creed met and married Mary Anne. They eventually had two children together, a son named Alexander and daughter named Artemis.Apollo and Mary Anne did have a good relationship; however Mary Anne had tolerate being married to a boxer, having needed to assist him after each bout. She would have to carry up the stairs of their house because he could not walk, or had to aid him as he went to the bathroom because he could not use his hands. Apollo cared for his kids, teaching hi...
Because the original film was released in 1976 during the reign of Muhammad Ali, it is reasonable to assume that, with Ali being considered the quintessential boxer by having defeated some of the best of the time, Creed was based largely on him, although his public image is more in the vein of Sugar Ray Leonard or Joe Louis. Like Ali, Apollo was an...
"Apollo Creed fights the Italian Stallion. HA! sounds like a damn monster movie." - Apollo Creed."I WANT YOU!" - Apollo Creed to Ivan Drago"I'm gonna drop him like a bad habit!" - Apollo Creed in reference to Rocky Balboa."Come November, you're mine"- Apollo Creed to Rocky Balboa.During his audition, Carl Weathers was sparring with Sylvester Stallone and accidentally punched him on the chin. Stallone told Weathers to calm down, as it was only an audition, and Weathers said...In Rocky II, after the bell rings, signalling the end of the second round, Sylvester Stallone and Carl Weathers are seen pushing, shoving, taunting, and ultimately being pulled apart by their respe...In Rocky IV, according to Sylvester Stallone, Dolph Lundgrenand Carl Weathers really did not get along and got into an altercation during filming. Lundgren threw Weathers across the ring before it...Apollo Creed first appears in the 1976 Oscar-winning film Rocky as the charismatic, intelligent, and undefeated 33-year-old World Heavyweight Champion.A planned bicentennial fight against number-one contender Mac Lee Green was scheduled for January 1, 1976; however, Green hurt his left hand in training, and other top-ranked contenders were either busy or claimed they didn't have enough time to ...
- Rocky IV (1985)
- Rocky (1976)
2 de fev. de 2024 · The US actor, who played the boxing rival of Sylvester Stallone in the first four Rocky films, passed away in his sleep, according to his family. He also starred in Predator, Happy Gilmore, The Mandalorian and other films and TV shows.
2 de fev. de 2024 · Da redação. 02/02/2024 17:24. SIGA NO. Carl Weathers em "The Mandalorian", série da Disney+. crédito: Disney+/Divulgação. Morreu na terça-feira (30/1), aos 76 anos, Carl Weathers, o Apollo Creed, da franquia “Rocky”. A informação é da revista norte-americana Variety e foi confirmada por Matt Luber, empresário do ator.
2 de fev. de 2024 · Carl Weathers, o ator americano que fez o papel do boxeador Apollo Creed nos quatro primeiros filmes "Rocky" ao lado de Sylvester Stallone, morreu aos 76 anos, noticiou a imprensa americana nesta sexta-feira (2) citando um comunicado da família.
Carl Weathers, former NFL player turned Hollywood actor who starred in the Rocky movies, dies aged 76.
