Rocky Balboa inducted into Boxing Hall of Fame
Mike Tyson, and Hugo Caesar Chavez were inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame, but these two middling boxers were overshadowed by the induction of perhaps the greatest boxer of all time, Rocky Balboa. You know the man who nobody knew, until he went the distance with Apollo Creed, and then singlehandedly ended the Cold War, when he showed The Russian what happens when you mess with America. Finally we all remember when an old, old Rocky came out of retirement to go ten rounds with the champ Mason “The Line” Dixon, I mean Muhammad Ali never did that.
Wait you mean that never happened? Those were just movies? And Rocky is really Sylvester Stallone, so why, and how did he get inducted. Has boxing really falling that low that someone who played a boxer in a movie can get inducted, what’s next will Samuel L. Jackson get into the basketball hall of fame for playing coach Carter? Now don’t get me wrong I love the Rocky movies, they are probably one of the greatest series of movies ever, but Stallone was also Rambo so does that mean he should get a Purple Heart? I know that some people think it was a good move because the movies were so influential and good for boxing, but for the last forty years (about the time of the first Rocky movie) boxing’s popularity has been slowly dropping, so it looks like the movies really didn’t help that much. It also takes a little away from the other inductees because in twenty years when someone looks at this year’s inductees, they might assume it was a weak year because an actor got in, thus taking away from Chavez. That said I’m pretty sure the only reason Tyson got in is because of the haymaker he threw in The Hangover.
Wait you mean that never happened? Those were just movies? And Rocky is really Sylvester Stallone, so why, and how did he get inducted. Has boxing really falling that low that someone who played a boxer in a movie can get inducted, what’s next will Samuel L. Jackson get into the basketball hall of fame for playing coach Carter? Now don’t get me wrong I love the Rocky movies, they are probably one of the greatest series of movies ever, but Stallone was also Rambo so does that mean he should get a Purple Heart? I know that some people think it was a good move because the movies were so influential and good for boxing, but for the last forty years (about the time of the first Rocky movie) boxing’s popularity has been slowly dropping, so it looks like the movies really didn’t help that much. It also takes a little away from the other inductees because in twenty years when someone looks at this year’s inductees, they might assume it was a weak year because an actor got in, thus taking away from Chavez. That said I’m pretty sure the only reason Tyson got in is because of the haymaker he threw in The Hangover.
