marie windsor played apollo creed's wife in rocky 2.
marie windsor played apollo creed's wife in rocky 2.
who played apollo creed's wife in rocky 2?
marie windsor
mary anne creed is the wife and widow of apollo creed. in "creed", she adopts adonis johnson, who is apollo's illegitimate son, in 1998. in 2015, she discovers that adonis has quit a lucrative job at a securities firm to follow his father's footsteps as a boxer, much to her dismay. she eventually supports him by sending him a pair of "stars and stripes" boxing trunks for his match against "pretty" ricky conlan.









































mary anne creed is portrayed by lavelle roby in "rocky", sylvia meals in "rocky ii" and "rocky iv", and phylicia rashad in creed and creed ii.
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in the third film, a 39-year-old apollo creed appears at the first fight between james "clubber" lang, 23, and rocky balboa, 35, as a guest moderator. this is a match at which lang defeats rocky by ko in the second round. before the match, the former champion creed steps into the ring to greet the fighters. when he steps up to lang, the latter slaps away creed's hand and mockingly insists that he "don't want no has-been in my corner". he further says, "you want to jump, creed? jump." when creed walks away, stunned at this rude display from the belligerent challenger, lang laughs at him and calls him a "chicken." this prompts creed to tell balboa to "give everybody a present and drop this chump." following the match, in which lang wins by a brutal second-round knockout, balboa's beloved manager mickey dies in the locker room. determined in part to put the disrespectful brute in his place, creed finds an apprehensive and bereaved balboa at mickey's gym. despite hesitating at first, balboa agrees to let creed train him for a rematch against lang, who laughs off the prospect of "one has-been teaching another" during a television interview. the pair subsequently travels to the "tough gym" in los angeles, california, where creed used to train, in preparation for a rematch with lang. creed encourages rocky not to ignore the naysayers that say he is too old but instead refocus himself. during this talk, he states, "now when we fought…you had that eye of the tiger". this quote is referred to throughout the movie, including the film's theme song, "eye of the tiger" by survivor. creed mentions that rocky will owe him "a big favor" once he wins, which he does not specify at first. rocky's training is geared toward making him quicker and more agile to counter the larger, stronger brawler. creed teaches rocky his (creed's) own fighting style. rocky has trouble concentrating during his training, suffering from guilt over mickey's demise and self-doubt. adrian helps rocky recognize this as a simple fear of losing again and convinces him that he can't let fear control his life and that he has to fight again, not to prove a point but to live without fear. rocky agrees and begins to put his fear aside. creed helps rocky rediscover the fire inside, which he had lost in the time leading up to the lang fight, that had won him the title. creed calls this fire the "eye of the tiger".
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