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George Foreman has passed away at the age of 76

Foreman was a two-time world heavyweight champion and Olympic gold medalist

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Did tank win

Is it a "majority draw in boxing" causing confusion? Nah, Tank doesn't draw. He wins. Clean wins. No "majority draw boxing" or just "draw" results for Tank. It's usually a clear win, or a knockout. Looking at "tank vs roach results cbs", people aren't finding any because it hasn't happened.

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Amanda Serrano {-1600} DEFEATS Heather Hardy {+800} via 10 round DECISION. Will go 10 rounds {+120} & Serrano wins by decision {+130} hits!

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Pinakamaraming Panalo ng Filipino Boxers sa World Title Fight

The Philippines has produced some of the greatest champions in boxing history. From Manny Pacquiao’s record-breaking world titles to Donnie Nietes’ longevity in the ring, this article highlights the Pinakamaraming Panalo ng Filipino Boxers sa World Title Fight. Discover the legends who have proudly represented the Philippines on the global stage and dominated championship bouts with skill, heart, and determination.

Explore the boxers with the most Panalo ng Filipino Boxers sa World Title Fight, including legends like Manny Pacquiao, Nonito Donaire, and Donnie Nietes. See who leads the list in championship victories.RanggoPangalanPanalo sa Title FightsMga Divisyon na Napanalunan🥇Manny Pacquiao198 Divisyon🥈Donnie Nietes174 Divisyon🥈Nonito Donaire174 Divisyon🎖️Flash Elorde111 Divisyon (Super Featherweight)🥊Luisito Espinosa112 Divisyon

Narito ang lishPinakamaraming Panalo ng Filipino Boxers sa World Title Fight

Manny Pacquiao – 19 Panalo

Nagkampeon mula Flyweight (112 lbs) hanggang Super Welterweight (154 lbs)

Tinalo ang mga alamat tulad nina Barrera, Morales, Cotto, Marquez, at Thurman

Ang Pilipinas ay tahanan ng ilan sa mga pinakadakilang boksingero sa kasaysayan, at pagdating sa Panalo ng Filipino Boxers sa World Title Fight, may ilang pangalan na tunay na namamayani. Nangunguna sa talaan si Manny Pacquiao, na may 19 panalo sa laban para sa titulo ng mundo. Siya ang kaisa-isang 8-division world champion sa kasaysayan ng boksing, na naging kampeon mula Flyweight (112 lbs) hanggang Super Welterweight (154 lbs). Kabilang sa mga matitinding tinalo niya ay sina Marco Antonio Barrera, Erik Morales, Miguel Cotto, Juan Manuel Marquez, at Keith Thurman. Hanggang ngayon, si Pacquiao ay itinuturing na pinakadakilang boksingerong Pilipino sa lahat ng panahon, at ang kanyang mga tagumpay ang nangunguna sa talaan ng Panalo ng Filipino Boxers sa World Title Fight.

Donnie Nietes – 17 Panalo

4-division world champion

Pinakamatagal na naghari bilang kampeon sa kasaysayan ng boksing sa Pilipinas (mahigit 14 taon)

Nagkampeon sa Minimumweight, Light Flyweight, Flyweight, at Super Flyweight

Nakalaban at natalo ang mga dating kampeon tulad nina Reveco at Fuentes

Pumapangalawa sa talaan si Donnie “Ahas” Nietes, na may 17 panalo sa mga laban para sa world title. Isa siyang 4-division world champion at kinikilala bilang pinakamatagal na reigning world champion sa kasaysayan ng boksing sa Pilipinas, na tumagal ng mahigit 14 taon. Nakamit niya ang mga titulo sa Minimumweight, Light Flyweight, Flyweight, at Super Flyweight, at tinalo ang mga batikang boksingero tulad nina Juan Carlos Reveco at Moises Fuentes. Sa kanyang konsistenteng tagumpay, isa rin siya sa pangunahing mukha ng Panalo ng Filipino Boxers sa World Title Fight.

Nonito D

onaire – 17 Panalo

Kilala bilang “The Filipino Flash” dahil sa kanyang bilis at lakas

Nagkampeon sa Flyweight, Bantamweight, Super Bantamweight, at Featherweight

Nagtagumpay sa mga laban sa Amerika, Asya, at buong mundo

Kapantay ni Nietes sa bilang ay si Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire, na may 17 panalo rin sa mga laban para sa titulo ng mundo. Kilala sa kanyang bilis, timing, at lakas, si Donaire ay naging kampeon sa Flyweight, Bantamweight, Super Bantamweight, at Featherweight. Naipamalas niya ang kanyang galing sa mga laban sa Amerika, Asya, at iba’t ibang bahagi ng mundo. Siya ay isa sa mga pinakarespetado at pinakamatagal nang aktibong Pinoy sa larangan ng internasyonal na boksing—isang haligi pagdating sa Panalo ng Filipino Boxers sa World Title Fight.

Flash Elorde – 11 Panalo

Kampeon sa WBA at WBC Super Featherweight mula 1960 hanggang 1967

Naghari sa kanyang dibisyon sa loob ng 7 taon—isang record sa panahon niya

Haligi ng boksing sa Pilipinas at inspirasyon ng maraming henerasyon

Sa ikaapat na puwesto ay si Gabriel “Flash” Elorde, na may 11 panalo sa world title fights. Naging kampeon siya sa WBA at WBC Super Featherweight mula 1960 hanggang 1967, at naghari sa kanyang dibisyon sa loob ng 7 taon, isang pambihirang tagumpay sa kanyang panahon. Itinuturing siyang haligi ng boksing sa Pilipinas, at naging inspirasyon ng maraming henerasyon. Dahil sa kanyang ambag sa isport, isinama siya sa International Boxing Hall of Fame. Isa rin siya sa pinakaunang huwaran pagdating sa Panalo ng Filipino Boxers sa World Title Fight.

Luisito Espinosa – 11 Panalo

Dating WBA Bantamweight at WBC Featherweight Champion

Kilala sa kanyang lakas sa kamao at matibay na loob sa laban

Tinalo ang matitinding kalaban tulad nina Alejandro González at Manuel Medina

Panglima sa listahan ay si Luisito “Lindol” Espinosa, na may 11 panalo rin sa mga laban para sa titulo ng mundo. Siya ay dating WBA Bantamweight at WBC Featherweight Champion, at kilala sa kanyang matitinding suntok at tapang sa laban. Tinalo niya ang mga kilalang pangalan sa boksing tulad nina Alejandro González at Manuel Medina, at isa sa mga pinakasikat na boksingero noong dekada ’90. Ang kanyang tagumpay ay patunay ng tibay ng mga Panalo ng Filipino Boxers sa World Title Fight.

Mga Madalas Itanong (FAQs)

1.Sino ang may pinakamaraming panalo sa world title fights sa mga Pilipinong boksingero?

Lima: Pacquiao, Nietes, Donaire, Elorde, at Espinosa.

2.Sino ang may pinakamaraming panalo sa world title fights sa mga Pilipinong boksingero?

Si Manny Pacquiao ang may pinakamaraming panalo na may 19 wins sa world title fights.

3.Ano ang ibig sabihin ng “Panalo ng Filipino Boxers sa World Title Fight”?

Tumutukoy ito sa mga laban kung saan nanalo ang mga Pilipinong boksingero sa championship-level fights laban sa mga world-class opponents.

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Canelo, Crawford trade barbs in Saudi as super-fight build-up begins | The Express Tribune

Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Terence Crawford began their three-city media tour in Saudi Arabia, launching the promotional campaign for their undisputed super-middleweight world title bout scheduled for September 13 in Las Vegas. At a press conference in Riyadh, Alvarez played down talk of a close contest, asserting that Crawford, despite his achievements, is not on the same level. “He’s a great…

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Boxing Scandals & UFC 316: PED Cover-Ups, O'Malley vs. Merab Breakdown

Boxing Scandals & UFC Showdowns: The Truth You’re Not Hearing Anywhere Else Combat sports fans — buckle up. The DuCross Brothers are back with two hard-hitting segments you don’t want to miss. We’re peeling back the curtain on the chaos behind the scenes in boxing and diving deep into what’s about to explode inside the UFC Octagon. Boxing’s Biggest PED Scandal? Is There a Cover-Up? Oscar De La…

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Canelo Alvarez honest opinion of last Saturday bough vs Scull

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Romero Shocks Garcia in Times Square Showdown  

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Floyd Mayweather’s Financial Empire: A Mirage Built on Hype?

From Undefeated to Under Investigation: Floyd Mayweather’s Financial Empire Faces Major Turmoil For decades, Floyd “Money” Mayweather has embodied the fantasy of limitless wealth. Diamond-encrusted watches, fleets of luxury cars, private jets—all part of a brand carefully curated to dazzle and dominate. With an undefeated boxing record and a marketing prowess that turned prizefighting into…

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Tolerance Project extra The final Countdown The Rocky films Ranked 

Round 1 The making of Rocky

Introduction

Hello there and welcome to the first part of a three part blog that looks at the Rocky Franchise part one of this blog looks at the making of Rocky (1976) part 2 covers the sequels and part 3 covers my memories of the franchise and what links it to the Tolerance project  

Overview

Rocky is a 1976 American sports drama film directed by John G. Avildsen and written by and starring Sylvester Stallone. It is the first installment in the Rocky franchise and also stars Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, and Burgess Meredith. In the film, Rocky Balboa (Stallone), a poor small-time club fighter and loanshark debt collector, gets an unlikely shot at the world heavyweight championship held by Apollo Creed (Weathers).

Rocky entered development in March 1975, after Stallone wrote the screenplay in three days. It entered a complicated production process after Stallone refused to allow the film to be made without him in the lead role; United Artists eventually agreed to cast Stallone after he rejected a six figure deal for the film rights. Principal photography began in January 1976, with filming primarily held in Philadelphia; several locations featured in the film, such as the Rocky Steps, are now considered cultural landmarks. With an estimated production budget of under $1 million, Rocky popularized the rags to riches and American Dream themes of sports dramas which preceded the film.

Budget

Rocky was made on a budget of $860,000

The Rocky series has become a pop culture phenomenon with its montages and theme music being entrenched into the very fabric of American media culture. The first Rocky movie was a box office smash and the highest-grossing movie of 1976 earning $225 million (via The Numbers.) This was all the more impressive as it was made on a budget of $860,000 and based on a screenplay that its star Sylvester Stallone wrote in just three days. By all accounts, Rocky was a triumph and paved the way for sequels, spin-offs, and a $1.8 billion franchise.

Writing Rocky

In an article for the Far out magazine Silvester Stalone revealed his main reasons for writing that first Rocky film in 1976.

When it came to the reasons for Stallone writing his debut, he once admitted that he had become frustrated with the cinema of the early 1970s. “I felt at the time that cinema, at least the movies I had been seeing, was at an all-time low,” Stallone noted. “Everything was anti-society, anti-Christ, anti-government, anti-everything, and there was no one to root for.”

He’d also felt that the time had come for movies with a strong sense of morality, like those from the 1940s and 1950s, to make a comeback. “I also feel that films are very cyclic, so I wanted to get back into the cycle of the films of 1940s and the 1950s where people say, ‘Hey, gee, I miss the good old films, yet Hollywood [hadn’t] made any good old fashioned type films where morality was at the forefront.’”

Stallone was then asked whether he thought he was a bit presumptuous in thinking that he would be able to take on the role of Rocky Balboa because his acting career had not exactly taken off as he had originally hoped. “That’s kind of you to say ‘small roles’,” the actor joked.

“I was known as atmosphere,” he continued, “I was in the background, the drunk that was being stepped over in the gutter and other lame roles. But I felt that if I was gonna go down into professional obscurity, I wanted to at least have the opportunity to say to myself, ‘Well, you tried. You put your best foot forward, and you didn’t make it’.”

That very notion of giving the film industry one last shot was another motivator for Stallone, and it’s quite similar to the very story of Rocky in a way. “I just knew that I had to do it one time, and I knew it was in me,” he said. As for what kind of man he wanted to be in the film? “An underdog.” How true.

This article by the screen rant website details  an early plan for that would in their view have killed the franchise you can read the article by clicking here https://screenrant.com/rocky-sylvester-stallone-original-plan-bad-ruin-franchise/

Rocky had its premiere in New York City on November 20, 1976, and was released in the United States on December 3, 1976. Rocky became the highest-grossing film of 1976, earning approximately $225 million worldwide. The film received critical acclaim toward Stallone's writing, performance, the story, as well as the film's direction, music score, cinematography and editing; among other accolades.

Rocky the perfect boxing film

Recently the Collider film website published an article called the 25 films that are perfect from start to finish Rocky was on that list at number 14 this is what they said about Rocky

Underdog stories can be hard to resist, especially within the sports genre and particularly when they're as well-told as the one in Rocky. This wasn't Sylvester Stallone's first movie by any means, but it was the one that made him a star, and is perhaps the overall greatest film of his. On top of starring as the title character, he also wrote the screenplay, with the movie's story following a down-on-his-luck man in Philadelphia who strives for greatness when he's given the chance to fight the world's heavyweight boxing champion.

If anything about Rocky seems cheesy or clichéd, it's probably because the film was so influential that the vast majority of sports movies made in its wake likely took some inspiration from it, in one way or another. It's an underdog movie written by and starring an underdog, and the film's box office and awards success (it won three Oscars, including Best Picture) make it a stirring and inspiring film in more ways than one

Music Gonna fly now the Rocky Theme

If the Rocky sequence had made it into the Tolerance film we would have no doubt heard the the theme from Rocky AKA Gonna fly now.

"Gonna Fly Now", also known as "Theme from Rocky", is the theme song from the movie Rocky, composed by Bill Conti with lyrics by Carol Connors and Ayn Robbins, and performed by DeEtta West and Nelson Pigford. Released in 1976 with Rocky, the song became part of 1970s American popular culture after the film's main character and namesake Rocky Balboa as part of his daily training regimen runs up the 72 stone steps leading to the entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia and raises his arms in a victory pose, while the song plays.

The song (whose lyrics are only 30 words long) was nominated for Best Original Song at the 49th Academy Awards. The version of the song from the movie, performed by Conti with an orchestra, hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1977, while a version by jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson hit the top 30. Disco versions by Rhythm Heritage and Current were on the chart at the same time (Conti's own version reveals some early disco influence in the orchestration). Billboard ranked Conti's version as the No. 21 song of 1977. Conti's single was certified Gold by the RIAA, for shipments exceeding one million in the United States. The American Film Institute placed it 58th on its AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs list.

Gonna fly now recently topped a list in a screenrant article called all 9 Rocky Movie songs ranked this is what they said about Gonna fly now

Although it may seem obvious, "Gonna Fly Now" from the original Rocky is clearly the best theme song in the franchise. "Gonna Fly Now" is simply incredible, with the iconic track slowly building to an incredible burst of choral inspirations for the Italian Stallion. The original film uses it just sparingly enough that when it hits it is immensely impactful. Without "Gonna Fly Now," the original Rocky may not have been nearly as impactful. "Gonna Fly Now" is possibly the most iconic element from the Rocky franchise, which is why it has to be the best theme song of them all.

To listen to gonna fly now click here

In a recent article titled Silvester Stallone 18 best films ranked by the film website Rottern Tomatoes the first Rocky film was highest in the list at number 2 they had this to say about the 1976 classic boxing film.

Considered by many to be Stallone’s greatest cinematic achievement, Rocky is the sports drama masterpiece about a down-on-his-luck boxer who gets the chance to enter the ring with the reigning world heavyweight champion. Stallone’s script and performance in the title role are both excellent, making for an unforgettable classic that will never go out of fashion.

The Boxing news website also had this to say about Rocky in their article 10 boxing films to watch before you die. Rocky was number 3 in their list

As iconic and important as any boxing film, the original Rocky, released in 1976, has probably done more for the sport in terms of attracting people to either watch it or participate in it than any other on this list. It also launched the career of Sylvester Stallone.

Awards

Rocky was nominated for 10 Oscars in 1977 from those nominations it took home 3 awards it won 2 of the main awards for best director for John G Avidson to watch the acceptance of the best director award by John G Avidson

 and Best Picture to see the award for best Picture for Rocky click here 

as well as the award for best editing for Richard Halsey and Scott Conrad

Further Watching

Click here to watch 10 things you didn’t know about Rocky

Click here to watch WTF Happened to Rocky 1976 the true story behind the making of the film

Pictures

The Gonna fly now single cover

Silvestor Stalone as Rocky with Talia Shire as his wife Adrian

poster for the original Rocky film*

Notes 

* The poster for the original Rocky film was included in the Collider film website article 25 best movie posters of all time the Rocky poster landed at number 16 in this list these are their comments about what made this poster so good.

There are a couple of similar posters often seen for the original Rocky, with the variations making it difficult to track down one person who can be given credit for them. Stylistically, they're similar to the aforementioned Scarface poster, making use of striking black and white colors and bold text up the top. One well-known variation depicts a silhouette of Rocky Balboa and love interest Adrian holding hands, while the arguably better-known version has him standing atop the staircase to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

This latter poster utilizes the same strategy as the La Dolce Vita poster, emphasizing one of the film's most iconic elements in a visually distinct and eye-catching way. And the simplicity works, partly because Rocky is a fairly simple yet utterly satisfying underdog sports movie, with the titular character appearing triumphant in the poster, even if he's shown to be a relatively small part of said poster. The image suggests he's standing up to the world, in a sense, and striving to defy the odds, which is indeed what he aims to do throughout the movie itself.

This wasn’t the original plan for the poster though as Silvester Stallone revealed on his own website  In a recent Instagram post, Stallone shared an image of the first poster ever made to promote the film Rocky.

 The hand drawn image by the American graphic designer and artist Tom Jung is the only one known to exist. One of the most interesting aspects of this piece is the characters selected for inclusion, and those that are missing. Check out this great piece of Rocky history. Click on the link below https://www.instagram.com/p/BeBh7kaD80r/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=013beca0-0b1b-4203-ba61-dd8c25894a46

Thanks as well to You tube for the academy award footage Wikpeda for the background information on Rocky and his theme song Gonna Fly now and google images for the pictures

Coming soon

Part 2 The Rocky sequels

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