adonis creed fought rocky balboa in the end.
adonis creed fought rocky balboa in the end.
who does adonis creed fight in the end?
rocky balboa
once in philadelphia, adonis meets rocky at adrian's restaurant and tries to convince him to be his trainer. having given up boxing, and believing apollo wouldn't want his son being a fighter, rocky rejects his offer. however, adonis' persistence eventually wins rocky over. he forms a strong bond with rocky and regards him as an uncle, even going so far as to call him "unc" and introduce him to people as such. meanwhile, adonis forms a relationship with his downstairs neighbor, bianca (tessa thompson), a singer-songwriter with progressive hearing loss. donnie gets a match with leo "the lion" sporino (gabriel rosado), the son of a trainer, who originally wanted rocky to coach his son. he moves in with rocky to train for the upcoming match. rocky takes donnie—now known as "hollywood"—to the front street gym to prepare with the help of several of rocky's longtime friends, where adonis markedly improves his hand speed, stamina, and defense. prior to the fight, sporino's father learns that adonis is in fact apollo creed's son. after adonis wins the fight in a 2nd-round ko, sporino's father alerts the media of adonis' parentage. meanwhile, world light heavyweight champion "pretty" ricky conlan (tony bellew) is being forced into retirement due to an upcoming prison sentence and is gearing up for his final fight against danny "stuntman" wheeler. after conlan breaks wheeler's jaw at the weigh-in for their title fight, conlan's manager, tommy holiday (graham mctavish), decides that the best way to end his career would be against the son of apollo creed. conlan is against it, but reluctantly agrees. holiday meets with rocky and adonis, demanding that he should use the name creed if he wants a shot at the light heavyweight title. adonis is reluctant due to his desire to forge his own legacy. he only consents after bianca persuades him to use apollo's surname.
adonis creed
adonis is torn between trying to preserve his father's legacy and build his own. a.o. scott of "the new york times" wrote that, "adonis is a complex character with a complex fate. he is at once a rich kid and a street kid, the proud carrier of an illustrious heritage and an invisible man. his relationship with rocky is complicated, too. the older fighter is a mentor and a father figure, to be sure, but he also needs someone to take care of him, especially when illness adds a melodramatic twist to the plot. adonis has been described as "arrogant". although adonis' circumstances change after he is adopted by mary anne creed, his late father's widow, he retains his fiery personality. short-tempered and impulsive, but good-natured, it is adonis' tenacity that convinces rocky to train him. michael o' sullivan of "the washington post" analyzed that adonis' "struggles with his temper" are "a coping mechanism that helps him deal with the fear of not living up to the name creed." jordan states of adonis, "my character is living in the shadow of his dad, who is arguably the greatest fighter that ever lived, and he really has to embrace that to move forward. i could understand wanting to have your own legacy and trying to find your own lane". adonis' hubris initially causes him to refuse to embrace the name creed, instead using his mother's surname, johnson. only with his girlfriend bianca's encouragement does adonis eventually come to accept the name. when adonis meets rocky and reveals to him that he is apollo's son and that he wants the elder former boxer to train him, rocky questions, "why would you pick a fighter's life when you don't need to?" he immediately notes that adonis is well-educated and comes from a wealthy background, which contrasts rocky's own upbringing. however, rocky sees in adonis the drive and determination in himself and apollo when he was younger, and concedes in training him. after rocky is diagnosed with non-hodgkins lymphona, it is adonis who motivates him and teaches him to fight again: "adonis is there to push [rocky] the same way rocky pushes him in the gym and in the ring." adonis pays tribute to rocky, his father, and his country by wearing the classic american flag shorts in his debut professional match that apollo and balboa sported in their bouts against ivan drago. however, adonis' shorts have the name johnson on the back and creed on the front, symbolizing that he can both preserve his father's legacy and still make his own.
adonis creed