Rocky Balboa
Rocky Marciano http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_MarcianoThere are many, including Rocky Marciano, Gene Tunney, David Tua, Paul Cavalier and others.
In the movies, yes. Sylvester Stallone played him in the Rocky movies. He wrote the first screenplay after watching the Muhammad Ali-Chuck Wepner fight in 1975. Wepner was not a heavyweight champ.
Rocky's accountant somehow gained the power of attorney from the former heavyweight champion and then blew the Balboa fortune through bad business deals. Fortunately, the gym owned by Rocky's late trainer, Mickey, was in the Balboa family's control and Rocky began managing it.
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Rocky Balboa, because The Rock is not a boxer, but a wrestler. There is a skill to both sports, and if you are going against someone who has been trained, you are not going to fair well if you have not.
(Rocky Balboa) is/was a fictional character created for the (Rocky) series of boxing films. As he is a fictional character, he really doesn:t have physical statistics-but it is believed he boxed in the heavyweight category.
rocky films are considered based off the story of rocky marciano, but that is not true. rocky is actually historical fiction, because in rocky IV he goes to russia to fight Ivan drago during the cold war. rocky is not off rocky marciano because in rocky V rocky has a flash back about mickey his trainer, and mickey in the flash back gives him a neckless . mickey received this neckless from rocky marciano, at the same time that rocky balboa was a fighter in the movie.
ali or balboa
The original Rocky (1976) stars Sylvester Stallone as small-time boxer Rocky Balboa who gets a shot at the big time when his manager signs him to fight an exhibition match with heavyweight champion Apollo Creed. Co-stars include Carl Weathers, Talia Shire and Burt Young.
In the last rocky balboa film he fought the middleweight undefeated champion Floyed Mayweather.
I have been asking that same question for years. Any answer to this question can best be answered by the person who created the Rocky Balboa character. It seems to me that the origin of the surname was overlooked by the character creator. The first two Rocky films made it as clear as possible that Rocky Balboa was an Italian-American, hence the nickname "The Italian Stallion." He married an Italian-American named Adrian Pennino so the name Pennino fits in with her Italian ethnicity. Another famous character whose surname didn't match his ethnicity was Kojak, a Greek-American. Kojak is a Slavic (Polish) surname. Therefore, these inconsistencies can happen in the movie and TV industry.
NO, It's based on a Canadian heavyweight called Chuck Wepner, who fought Muhammad Ali in 1975 for the world title and put up a great fight despite being outclassed.