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`Rocky' is fictional but real athletes have enjoyed late-career success.
Byline: Michael Hirsley
CHICAGO _ Sylvester Stallone acknowledges taking the idea for his Academy Award-winning "Rocky" movie from the Muhammad Ali-Chuck Wepner fight in 1975.
Actor-director Stallone's Rocky was modeled after Wepner, a brawling, ham-and-egger club fighter who gets one big chance in the limelight against prancing, preening champion Apollo Creed, an obvious Ali knockoff.
Rock does well enough to merit a rematch, and, of course, a sequel, and in a case of reel life not imitating real life, he wins. So it's on to "Rocky III," and "Rocky IV," and Rocky the Series.
Now, with "Rocky Balboa" slated to open nationally Friday, as Stallone's sixth installment in the "Rocky" double-trilogy, moviegoers are being asked to suspend disbelief once again.
This time we have to believe Rocky, on the plus side of 50, could step into the ring and compete against a…
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