# Did "Rocky" win or lose the fight in the first movie?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 6, 2004, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-rocky-win-or-lose-the-fight-in-the-first-movie/249012 "2004-06-06T23:57:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-rocky-win-or-lose-the-fight-in-the-first-movie/249012/21 "2004-07-06T23:49:08Z")

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To complete the list:

Rocky V: Rocky beats champ Tommy Gunn in a street fight.

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**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-rocky-win-or-lose-the-fight-in-the-first-movie/249012/22 "2004-07-06T23:56:06Z")

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> [@neofishboy](#):
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> That would be the tuna, actually.🙂

[Hijack]  
When I was a kid, I misheard one of the lines. For several years, I thought he sang, “goes in the back and beats **OFF** on the liverwust,” not "he goes in the back and beats **UP** on the liverwurst.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread.

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**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-rocky-win-or-lose-the-fight-in-the-first-movie/249012/23 "2004-07-07T02:21:15Z")

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> [@BraheSilver](#):
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> But you just can’t go wrong with the, uh… The bread that he has. You know.

It’s the ryyyyyyyyyyyyye … or the kaiser!

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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-rocky-win-or-lose-the-fight-in-the-first-movie/249012/24 "2004-07-07T03:17:03Z")

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The Kaiser invaded France! And the Netherlands!

He was on a roll, I guess. A Kaiser roll…

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**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-rocky-win-or-lose-the-fight-in-the-first-movie/249012/25 "2004-07-07T03:43:00Z")

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> [@Sublight](#):
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> To flesh out the list a bit…
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> Rocky IV: Rocky beats Ivan Drago after Drago kills Apollo in the ring.

I walked into the room while my dad was watching it. They were at the end when Rocky was talking about hate and love and peace after beating the crap out of the Soviet’s Golden Boy.

I couldn’t help blurting out my paraphrase of the Onion Headline “Rocky singlehandly wins the cold war by beating the crap out of a Russian!”

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