10 Movie Answers Given YEARS Later
5. Who Won The Third Fight Between Rocky & Apollo? - Rocky III
The Question:
Way back in 1982, Rocky III ended with Rocky (Sylvester Stallone) and Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) having a third and final match to settle thing once and for all, though the movie ingeniously ends as the fight begins without revealing the outcome.
So, who ended up winning?
The Answer:
The answer was finally revealed an entire 33 years later in Creed, when Apollo's son Adonis (Michael B. Jordan) asks Rocky about the mythic fight, and Rocky reveals that Apollo was indeed the victor.
Now, we have to consider the possibility that Rocky was simply showing a little humility and telling Adonis, an orphan for God's sake, what he probably needed to hear.
But from everything the movies tell us, Apollo was far away and away the better boxer of the two, with Rocky only barely prevailing in Rocky II, so it's incredibly easy to take what Rocky tells Adonis as truthful.
In a private fight where neither money nor titles are at stake, why wouldn't the more powerful and skilled fighter win?