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Jordan as Adonis Creed: An underdog, but talented light-heavyweight boxer and the son of world heavyweight champion Apollo Creed. Tony Bellew as "Pretty" Ricky Conlan: A highly formidable yet arrogant British boxer and the world light heavyweight champion. By the final round, he is well ahead on points and Duke begs Apollo to go on the defensive, as he'll win if he makes it to the end of the match; Apollo refuses, desperate to knock Rocky out rather than win on points. In the seventh installment, it has been revealed that Creed had an affair sometime before his death, and from that, Adonis "Donnie" Johnson Creed was born.
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Overtime Apollo Creed rose to stardom as a legend of the boxing sport; By the age of 32, he amassed an impressive record of 46 wins, 0 losses, and 0 draws, with all his wins by knockout, and had become the Heavyweight boxing Champion of the world. With Rocky, Duke and Paulie in his corner, Apollo was overly confident that he could dispense of Drago with ease. In a press interview during training, he also insists that Rocky "cannot last five minutes in the ring with a superior athlete like me!
On December 20, 2015, screeners of numerous prospective awards contenders, including Creed, were uploaded to torrent sites. He owns and operates an Italian restaurant in Philadelphia named after his deceased wife Adrian (played by Talia Shire in previous films).
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For the fight, Apollo dresses up like both George Washington and Uncle Sam in the pre-fight festivities (with his matching trademark "stars and stripes" boxing shorts) is in a jovial mood until Rocky knocks him down in the first round with a single uppercut; the first knock down Creed had ever suffered. Gary Arnold of The Washington Post wrote that the film "slavishly repeats the plot of Rocky, achieving differentiation only in dubious forms: soap opera detours, delaying tactics and an ugly new mood of viciousness surrounding a rematch between the boxers.
Adonis visits Apollo’s grave along with Bianca and Amara, the latter of whom is sporting new hearing aids. Reimann describes Apollo as having a "near-psychotic temper" during the press conference and inserting himself into the conflict between Rocky and Drago as the latter was in the United States to fight Rocky. Creed is first seen in the ER alongside Rocky and a flurry of press, Creed, going against his earlier stance, denounces the fight as a fluke and challenges Rocky to finish the fight right there, which nearly happens when both men get out of their wheelchairs and look ready to brawl, only to be restrained by hospital employees.