Rocky Balboa: Yes We Can!

A Tribute to a Great American Hero

Ushered in by Obama becoming the U.S.A.’s 44th President, the present era has been touted as one for heroes. To be specific, American ones. But before anything else, we look back and pay tribute to one of their greatest champions, whose body of work has brought us all together to celebrate one man beating the shit out of another. Not to mention very short shorts for heterosexual men.

Best Inspirational Speech:
Rocky Balboa. Funnily enough my favorite inspirational speech comes from a character that was in all the movies yet hardly plays a significant role—it’s Duke, Apollo Creed’s former manager, played by Tony Burton. By this time Rocky is once again the underdog, a total has-been who is almost a joke to his fans and the generation of boxers he inspired. He is facing his mortality, his old age, and his uselessness. He decides to go against current heavyweight champ Mason Dixon, and everyone expects him to go down early in the fight. Before he begins training, Duke tells him how it’s gonna be done —
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