00:06hello again i'm jim lampley with larry merchant and max kellerman live from the mandalay bay hotel
00:12in las vegas where we anticipate one of the most outrageous and compelling events in boxing history
00:18if two athletes from different eras could actually compete against one another who would come out on
00:22top in one corner the reigning champion at mason the line dixon he'll be pitted against the former
00:28two-time heavyweight champion rocky balboa the computer says rocky balboa would be triumphant
00:38you can go far beyond what people think you can do if you believe in it i was inspired by
00:44the
00:44george foreman fight the last fight he had with michael moore with a guy that age who can still
00:50compete and only compete can win they just want to prove that lasting age is the heart i don't care
00:55if you're 55 years old nothing's impossible that's what draws a lot of people in keeps a legacy and
01:00the legend of rocky go it ain't about how hard you pick it's about how hard you can get and
01:05keep moving
01:06forward how much you can pick and keep moving forward that's how winning happens i was flattered
01:12that he gave me an early peak at the new one and i was completely floored that he seemed to
01:16have caught
01:17the essence the cleanliness the clarity of the first everybody knows the films it's hard not to know
01:24that it's like knowing anything great of american cinema it's part of it if there's a manual to be
01:30printed on how to make a fight film perfect it should say celeste stallone i don't care what anyone says
01:35and that's a fact i try to be very very realistic in this fight keep it within the the realm
01:40of
01:40feasibility he knew he was going to hit obstacles he knew he was going to hit critics but he knows
01:45what he
01:45wants he's focused he's got a vision and he's sticking to it and he believes in this we literally
01:50use hbo it becomes an hbo event we borrow their blueprint and insert rocky into a realistic situation
01:58people don't think you can tell this kind of story with a fight so what we'll be calling on
02:04is good old-fashioned blunt force trump horsepower heavy duty cast iron power driving punches that will
02:13have to hurt so much they'll round his ancestors he's the real deal and so i picked him and cast
02:30him
02:30for a reason he wanted it to look real and he didn't want it to look like an actor playing
02:35a boxer if you're
02:41and antonio are really hitting each other they're not joking they're hitting each other every punch
02:45in the movie that you see that's a hit to hit what you realize is how real this fight take
02:50place and
02:51you won't see a guy fake a punch or you won't see that in this movie you'll see contact you'll
02:56see
02:56sweat flying you'll see a lot of blood so uh you know it's going to be as real as real
03:01can get it's
03:02almost like the real thing because anybody looking at this on television will say hey joe what a hell of
03:06a
03:06fight rocky also has his particular question to prove that you know what you lack in skill you can
03:13make up in will
03:38you
03:41you
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