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Rocky getting picked on at the gym


After Mickey tells Rocky that he can't fight again, Rocky works at Mickey's gym doing odd jobs like emptying the spit bucket. It always bothered me how the other fighters in the gym treated Rocky like dirt, despite the fact that he just went the distance with the greatest fighter in the world. Like when he says "whoops," the other guy says "is that all you know how to say is whoops." Rocky should have jumped in the ring and beat that guy senseless.

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He's not the type of macho man who would get into a fight just to prove how big of a man he is. He swallowed his pride, turned the other cheek and kept doing his thang.

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I just wanted so bad so see him go to the back, glove up and take on that disrespectful pos.

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yes rocky was never type to punch someone out merely for disrespects. rocky was not a low impulse control retards. he have good head. does not lose cool.

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"It always bothered me how the other fighters in the gym treated Rocky like dirt, despite the fact that he just went the distance with the greatest fighter in the world."

It wasn't even remotely believable. Mick said himself that Rocky was like royalty at that gym, which is very believable, but everyone turning on him overnight because of a cartoon in the newspaper? I don't think so. Bad writing.

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All these moments, insults with his wife around,...etc. made it all the more sweeter for Rocky when in the end his character in all his humbleness prevailed. I enjoyed Rocky 2 for this particular reason. He takes a beating both inside and outside the ring.

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>Like when he says "whoops," the other guy says "is that all you know how to say is whoops." Rocky should have jumped in
>the ring and beat that guy senseless.

The difference between them is that guy in the practice ring is a nothing/nobody with a piece of shit where his heart should be, and Rocky has the gold heart of a champion. Which is why he didn't even consider going HAM on the prick.

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HAM ?

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