Rocky Balboa movie outcome????
Question by Smallbutdeadly: Rocky Balboa movie outcome????
Why did Rocky Balboa lose to Mason Dixon in the split decision in the movie Rocky Balboa 6? Also, do you know why the producers make Rocky lose? I really wanted Rocky to win the fight but when he lost, I was dumbfounded on why the producers did that!(It would have been better if Rocky Won!!=) I don’t really know the basics of boxing so please enlighten me! Thx!
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Answer by daughters_a_wookie
The various reasons why Rocky lost are plenty, and all across the board, so I hope my answer wont be too meandering (good luck if you’ve ever seen my answers, though)
The way he lost, with the fight “going the distance” and ending in a judges decision is basically where neither fighter wins by knock out (or technical knockout) and the three judges scores are tallied. Each judge awards a score to each fighter for each round, and these are all added up. If all three judges vote for the same person, this is considered a “unanimous decision” if one judge’s opinion differs from the other two, your result is called, as in this case, a “split decision”
Honestly this was the right call for the judges if this were real life, in that Rocky did in fact put on a great show and fight, but simply did not win enough rounds to win the entire fight. In fact his strategy was more of a rope a dope type of strategy to get his opponent who had never gone the distance to unload all his energy early, and then unload and try to knock him out before the fight ended. In doing this Rocky strongly lost early rounds he would’ve needed for the decision.
Now as a film, the movie was really pushing reality severely as it is, for Rocky to beat a fighter in his prime would have simply taken the movie waaay over the edge. Don’t get me wrong, I liked the movie (definately much better than 4 or 5!!!)
And I really feel you didn’t NEED rocky to win. Rocky won by SURVIVING, when everybody and their brother said he’d be destroyed within the first round or two. For him to also push a fighter to something that no other fighter had done, again forcing Dixon to go all 10 rounds, was a major accomplishment and Rocky won the respect of his opponent, his fans, himself and Peter Pettrelli, and thats all that matters, and thats all Rock was looking for.
Also, back to making believe this was a real fight, boxing today is a sghamble of what it used to be. And the movie made that point very well, in my opinion. The judges (especially since this was an exhibition fight, and because the honesty and validity of boxing is questionable at best) would very likely forced to make sure the young champion not be embarressed by having his first ever victory at the hands of a nearly geriatric italian.
Plus, Mason was well served by this, also. He comes out as a class act by conducting himself professionally (not bighting off any ears, no low blow, headbutting, etc) and not murdering a man in an exhibition fight. Plus, as I stated earlier he was pushed to do something he never did and that was fight into the middle let alone the last rounds of a fight. In doing this with Rocky being an obviously formiddable opponent, he proved that he wasn’t just a pretty face that could only retain his championship by fighting bums.
If you actually took the time to wade through all of this, I hope it helped.
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