20 Things You Somehow Missed In Rocky
3. The Stinky Apartment
One of Rocky's stand-out moments is when gym manager Mickey Goldmill comes to Balboa's apartment, and the two characters erupt into a fight. Rocky claims that Mickey wasn't interested in training him before he had a shot at the championship.
The entire monologue was improvised by Sylvester Stallone. At one point, Stallone yells, "This whole place stinks!" In later interviews, Stallone admitted that he broke character for the line and that the apartment they were filming in did, in fact, smell awful.