To say that Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone, who also wrote and directed) is past his prime is putting it mildly. Adrian is gone – she passed a few years ago from “women’s cancer”, and now each year on her birthday Rocky visits sites where they shared a few special moments. We see her here only in Rocky’s memories and in the name of Rocky’s restaurant, Adrian’s.

But when a television computer projects that Rocky in his prime could beat the current heavyweight champion Mason “The Line” Dixon, something in Rocky’s “basement” (down in his gut) starts to stir. He wonders what it would be like to fight again. Nothing big, but just a few local fights. So he applies to get re-licensed.

When the papers pick up on it, Dixon’s camp gets wind of it and decides it could be the payday that he’s been waiting for all these years.

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