Did you know that after Sylvester Stallone wrote Rocky’s screenplay in just about three days, his script was repeatedly rejected because he himself wanted to play the lead role in the film? Finally, Stallone starred in the first ‘Rocky’ film and the rest is history!
For diehard fans of the Rocky film franchise, we have ranked all Rocky & Creed films here. You can stream these films in India on the Amazon Prime Video OTT platform before ‘Creed 3’ arrives in theatres on 3rd March.
8. Rocky V (Streaming on Amazon Prime Video)
Rocky has now taken retirement from boxing but is struggling financially after his accountant cheats him. Just then, a young and talented boxer Tommy Gunn approaches him and Rocky decides to train him for the world heavyweight title. But his new role as a mentor strains his relationship with his son.
7. Rocky IV (Streaming on Amazon Prime Video)
The film’s plot revolves around how the formidable Soviet-Russian boxer Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren) brutally beats and kills Rocky’s friend Apollo Creed in the ring and eventually how Rocky comes back to the ring to face the virtually unbeatable opponent in the latter’s home turf.
6. Rocky II (Streaming on Amazon Prime Video)
After honorably losing the famed boxing match with heavyweight champion Apollo Creed, Rocky became an overnight sensation. But the embarrassment caused by it to Creed forces him to challenge Rocky for a rematch. Can Rocky win the high stakes match this time?
5 Rocky Balboa (Streaming on Amazon Prime Video)
Rocky is now running a small restaurant in his home town Philadelphia and is still dealing with the death of his wife Adriane. But things take an interesting turn when the Italian Stallion is challenged by the current heavyweight champion for an exhibition boxing match.
4. Creed II (Streaming on Amazon Prime Video)
In this ‘Creed’ sequel, Adonis Johnson decides to get in the ring against the son of the man who killed his father Apollo Creed. Both Rocky and Creed must deal with their pasts to face the formidable boxer Victor Drago, Ivan Drago’s son.
3. Rocky III (Streaming on Amazon Prime Video)
Just before his match with the arrogant and formidable boxer named Clubber Lang, Rocky loses his father figure coach Mickey. The down-and-out fighter is then approached by his former competitor Apollo Creed, who trains him to beat a seemingly unbeatable boxer against all odds.
2. Creed (Streaming on Amazon Prime Video)
The focus of the story shifts from Rocky to his former competitor turned friend Apollo Creed’s son Adonis Johnson (Michael B. Jordan). Adonis leaves his job to follow his passion – boxing. He reaches out to Rocky to train him which the latter reluctantly agrees to. But despite being Apollo’s son and with Rocky by his side, does Adonis have it in him what it takes to beat the champion?
1. Rocky (Streaming on Amazon Prime Video)
The Academy Award-winning film features Sylvester Stallone in the role of Rocky, a kind-hearted but struggling boxer cum debt collector from Philadelphia, who, by a stroke of fate, gets a rare shot to fight the current heavyweight boxing champion Apollo Creed (played by Carl Weathers).
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