Some of the most cringe shit I've ever seen. Fucking hell😂 Never bothered to watch this stinker of a film because of how corny and tacky it looked, I now see my assumptions were correct. 😂 woeful.
They used the real Mandalay Bay, the Real HBO press conference setup, the crowd had paid for the real event Mandalay Bay was hosting and then saw “Rocky Balboa” and started to cheer. It’s so awesome.
The Rocky chant by the crowd was not rehearsed this was all real at a real boxing event. He feared the crowd would act a fool but instead they made this scene amazing with no director required
My dad was invited to see this last fight while they were still filming, since they invited members of the military to participate in the crowd. He's actually in the background somewhere here. But the fun fact for this is that all the cheering and clapping was edited in. They actually instructed the crowd to just make facial movements and pretend to cheer so that it wouldn't interfere with the sound of the main cast recording. It was pretty quiet inside the stadium.
Fun fact: The whole crowd and press during the shooting of the film were not staged, they were actually real crowd and press post watching a real match between Hopkins and Tylor. Stallone couldn't find a free ring as the were all booked during the production hence he came out with the idea of piggyback-ing a real life boxing schedule. He was afraid that the crowd would boo them during the filming, only to be ultimately surprised that they were cheering for Rocky instead-it made the Tylor/Hopkins overshadowed.
