Apollo Creed. 2. Earnie Shavers was almost Clubber Lang in "Rocky III" instead of Lawrence ... then fought to a controversial draw with Mark Gastineau, who never fought again, and who, we must ...

It was Apollo that Rocky defeated at the second attempt to ... Rocky, by contrast, won 57 fights but lost 23, with one draw, according to Stallone’s 2006 comeback movie Rocky Balboa.

Apollo’s name orgin wasn’t the only story he clarified about his dog, Fried also revealed that while his dog resembles a boxer he is in fact a mutt according to the athlete.