Recently Jake Paul brought up the Rocky story ahead of his upcoming heavyweight fight against Anthony Joshua.
Everyone knows about the Rocky movies. Even people that don’t watch boxing or sport at all.
The ‘Italian Stallion’ started out as being given a long shot underdog chance to fight for the title against Apollo Creed and the rest was history.
A series of boxing cinematic triumph was born in movies that live on to this day. Rocky will always be a part of the sport of boxing.
Even professional boxing.
Even though it is just fiction.
Why The Underdog Still Resonates In Boxing Today
People buy from people and fans often buy events and go to fights to see upsets and the underdog triumph.
Wouldn’t it be boring all the time if the favorite won all the time in boxing and the outcome was predestined or known before hand?
That is what boxing does brilliantly.
Upsets and huge success stories happen over night literally every single week.
Boxing produces these supernatural sporting and life moments, but behind the scenes in the gym and on fight night in the ring, more than any other professional sport.
That’s why people love boxing.
That’s why boxing is going back to near the top of all sport soon.
See what we mean now about making boxing great again? 🙂
Checkmate.
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