However, Green hurts his left hand in training and the other top ranked contenders, such as Ernie Roman, Buddy Shaw (ranked fifth), are either busy or don't believe that they can get into shape in time.
A planned Bicentennial fight against number one contender Mac Lee Green was scheduled for January 1, 1976, which Apollo gladly hypes whenever someone places a microphone in front of him. Apollo died before discovering the existence of his third child, and a baby boy was born, named Adonis Johnson Creed.Īpollo Creed first appears as a charismatic, intelligent, and undefeated 33-year-old World Heavyweight Champion. The time of the fling was not exactly revealed, but it was assumed to be late 1984 or early 1985. It is revealed in Creed that Apollo had a relationship with another woman before getting married. In the coming years, Creed met and married Mary Anne, they had two children together, an unnamed daughter and unnamed son. 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 Academy. Creed began boxing in 1968 at the age of 26, it is revealed in the video game Rocky Legends that one of Creed's earlier fights was against Tony "Duke" Evers, who at this time was an aging boxer. 2.7.3 Adonis lives up to the Creed LegacyĪpollo Creed was born on August 17th, 1942 in Los Angeles County, California, there isn't much information regarding Creed's childhood, but based off Creed's bright intelligence, it is assumed that he had a good education and that his family was middle class.2.7.1 Illegitimate Son Adonis Johnson Creed.2.5.1 Challenging Soviet Union Boxer Ivan Drago.The fight is billed as an exhibition, but unfortunately, Creed is knocked unconscious in the second round, resulting in his death In Rocky IV, Creed decides to make a one-off return to the ring to fight a Soviet Union boxer by the name of Ivan Drago. Creed and Balboa bond over this time, becoming close friends. Creed retires after this fight, but he returns to train his former foe, Balboa, in Rocky III following Rocky's loss to Clubber Lang. See, be a thinker, not a stinker" ―Apollo CreedĪpollo Creed (AugAugust 31, 1985) was the former Heavyweight Champion, who was introduced as an main antagonist in Rocky and Rocky II, the deuteragonist in Rocky III, the supporting character in Rocky IV and picture character in Creed and Creed II.Ĭreed is presented as the undisputed heavyweight world champion in Rocky, he was undefeated and had cleared out his division of challengers prior to his fight with Rocky Balboa, following his split-decision victory over Rocky, Creed challenges Rocky to a rematch in Rocky II, which he loses, losing his world championship and suffering his first career loss. Be a doctor, be a lawyer, carry a leather briefcase.