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Sylvester Stallone: The Man Who Refused to Lose (The True Story of Rocky)

Published Nov 4, 2026 · 31 min

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In March 1975, a struggling actor with a partly paralysed face watched Chuck Wepner put Muhammad Ali on the canvas. Two years and four days later, the script he had been building won Best Picture. In between, he turned down a fortune, because the studio wanted his story without him in it.

Narration in this film is a synthetic, cloned voice. Sources and image credits are in the YouTube description.

Chapters

1. 00:00 Round Nine
2. 01:53 A Face Nobody Chose
3. 04:11 Ninety-Seven Percent Unemployment
4. 06:52 Maybe He's a Boxer
5. 09:13 Pass
6. 11:55 Twenty-Eight Days
7. 15:48 The Price of the Body
8. 18:40 First Blood
9. 21:37 Bigger, Louder
10. 24:49 Rocky Balboa
11. 27:56 The Steps

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