Rocky III: From Hulk Hogan’s cameo, to Morgan Freeman being turned down – 40 reasons why Sylvester Stallone, Carl Weathers’ Apollo Creed and Mr T’s Clubber Lang make it the greatest boxing film everRocky III is now 40 and talkSPORT pities the fools who don’t believe it’s the greatest Rocky film – no, more than that, the greatest boxing movie – of all time.and Sylvester Stallone’s first Rocky may have won more Oscars.
6. It genuinely reflects Stallone’s life. When writing Rocky III, Sly used the fact that he had gone from nobody to megastar to cover Rocky Balboa’s struggles with sudden fame, giving the story real emotional weight.
10. The then WWF briefly fired Hogan for taking part in the film, but it was clearly worth it as it helped make Hulk a superstar and gave us dialogue such as: “The ultimate male versus the ultimate meatball!” which is what we say to our lunch every day.In Thunderlips’ exhibition with Rocky, it was dubbed ‘The Ultimate Male vs The Ultimate Meatball’ with Hulk Hogan portraying the wrestler
16. It features Mickey’s death: the ultimate heartbreaking scene made even more tragic by the fact that Stallone’s honest slugger has to lie to his trainer, hiding from him that he’s just been KO’d by Clubber. Gut-wrenching. 21. Talia “Adriaaaan!” Shire also gets her finest scene when she forces Rocky to finally confront what’s really holding him back: that he’s afraid. “How’d you get so tough?” he asks. “I live with a fighter,” she replies. Tears all round.22. Carl Weathers should have won an Oscar just for the training finale, when he has to lose to Rocky in a foot race – meaning the strapping, 6ft 2in, ex-NFL ace has to sprint slower than older, smaller, full-time actor Stallone. He magically pulls it off.
26. Paulie – always the most annoying part of any Rocky film – gets his comeuppance, being thrown in jail early in the film and chewed out by Apollo later. Good.
Rocky 3 was the last good film. Rocky 4 was a awful. Just montages and cold war propaganda
It's not even in the best three films of the franchise
Other than Rocky 2, Rocky and Rocky 4 it definitely is!!!
It's not even the best Rocky film nevermind the best boxing film