I'm not really into boxing but I do like a good underdog story, and Rocky really was a great movie. The first one, that is, the sequels were totally forgettable. Or so I thought.
One of the later films had Sly up against Dolph Lundgren at his physically gigantic-est. It was a movie, and so, as unrealistic as it seemed, the thespianically-challenged hero won, of course. I guess it helped that he wrote the script too.
Any thoughts of said film had drifted into the long-term memory banks, and were probably headed for the synaptic trashcan until I stumbled upon a photo of the weigh-in for last weekend's fight between Nikolai Valuev and John Ruiz, which is without doubt a theatrical gem...
Competition is heated at auditions for the role of "Genie" in next season's "Aladdin."
Happy Birthday to my bro Samnambulist !! ;-) x
