Sad news

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3465113/Tony-Burton-trainer-Apollo-Creed-Italian-Stallion-Rocky-movies-dies-78-year-long-battle-illness.html

RIP big man!

"No pain......no pain...."

RIP!

"Apollo was like my son. I raised him. When he died, a part of me died."

Another great line form Mr Burton, "I saw you beat that man, like I never seen no man get beat before and the man kept coming after you. We don't need that kind of man in our lives."

Steff this is the only appropriate times to quote Rocky.

Anyway sad news. He played a good part in the series.

Duke: "You know all there is to know about fighting, so there's no sense us going down that same old road again. To beat this guy, you need speed - you don't have it. And your knees can't take the pounding, so hard running is out. And you got arthritis in your neck, and you've got calcium deposits on most of your joints, so sparring is out."

Paulie: "I had that problem."

Duke: "So, what we'll be calling on is good ol' fashion blunt force trauma. Horsepower. Heavy-duty, cast-iron, piledriving punches that will have to hurt so much they'll rattle his ancestors. Every time you hit him with a shot, it's gotta feel like he tried kissing the express train. Yeah! Let's start building some hurtin' bombs!"

Used to pop up in a lot of cop shows in the 70s/80s......Usually a wrong un...

4-3-1 as a light heavy so he made the right career choice...

Remember him in Stir Crazy one of my favorite movies..

RIP..

RIP, sad news.

I didn't know he'd been a fighter (Nevada golden gloves champion). He'd also been in prison and was a TV repair man!

RIP

It's hard to imagine Rocky 1, 2 and 3 without him

Sometimes when me and my workmate are messing about sparring I give it the old "Stick and Mooooooooove"

RIP Sir

Although his part was relatively small, he left a big impression. RIP big man.