Whatever Happened to the Cast of the ‘Rocky’ Franchise?

It’s been almost 50 years since an ambitious young New York actor named Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone — a guy with big dreams on both sides of the silver screen — took inspiration from a jaw-dropping Muhammad Ali-Chuck Wepner boxing match and turned it into box office gold via a little movie he called Rocky.

Stallone cast himself as the titular main character, a small-time boxer, Rocky Balboa, who gets an unlikely shot to fight the world heavyweight champ Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) and discovers that guts, heart, and having the right folks in your corner matter more than a championship belt.