Apollo Creed
Apollo Creed is a male film character who features in Creed.
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Biography
Apollo Creed was a male human born on August 17th, 1942 in Los Angeles County, California to his middle class mother and father. Creed was a natural athlete since his childhood, playing Junior league baseball, wrestling, and football. In 1960, he graduated from High School, and went to play on college football team for sometime. Creed began boxing in the mid to late-1960s, circa 1968, around the age of 26, and it is revealed in the video game Rocky Legends that Creed's first fight was against Tony "Duke" Evers, who at this time was an aging boxer. At the end of the fight, Creed approached Duke and mentioned how it would be good to have an experienced fighter managing his career and training him, Happy to be able to continue in boxing, Duke accepted the offer as manager and began training him at the Delphi Boxing Academy. Overtime Apollo Creed rose to stardom as a legend of the boxing sport; By the age of 33, 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. In the coming years Creed met and married Mary Anne. They eventually had two children together, a son named Alexander and daughter named Artemis. Apollo and Mary Anne did have a good relationship; however Mary Anne had tolerate being married to a boxer, having needed to assist him after each bout. She would have to carry up the stairs of their house because he could not walk, or had to aid him as he went to the bathroom because he could not use his hands. Apollo cared for his kids, teaching his son how to be and spot a "winner" and though he did not openly approve his daughter's decision to take up boxing like him, he still supported her.
Overview
Personality and attributes
As Apollo Creed's fighting style is reminiscent of Muhammad Ali, so is his personality. Creed is charismatic, quick-witted, and a wisecracker, usually rhyming his words and insults like Ali. Creed was viewed as cocky, but confident, always trash talking his opponents with a smile and then outclassing them in the ring. Creed has every right to be overly-confident because of his perfect record.
Creed is known for his quick wits, he is able to spin together a few words and insult his opponent. An example is when Ivan Drago doesn't answer a question and Creed says "The man's tongue didn't make it through customs!"
Powers and abilities
Apollo was an outside fighter, relying on his speed and power to get through fights. His jab-cross-hook combination were his mainstay, and also just like Ali, Creed's defense was heavily contingent upon his speed. Apollo used Ali's "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" philosophy, being able to bob and weave and frustrate his opponents. A notable difference was that though Creed had Ali's unorthodox hand positioning, he ducked, bobbed and weaved in the classic style, as opposed to Ali who preferred to move backwards, in contradiction to boxing's basic tenets, but with a delightful degree of success. Perhaps the reason for this was that only Ali could do be that unorthodox and look convincing; where most boxing instructors would tell you that you can't land a punch when you're retreating backwards, Ali did that too with alarming regularity.
Notes
- Apollo Creed was created by Sylvester Stallone where he was portrayed by actor Carl Weathers where he featured in the Rocky universe.
Appearances
- Rocky: (1976)
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