If you fall to your knees three times it’s over. In order to protect fighters many bouts have a three knockdown rule. If this was in fact a boxing match then technically the referee could have ended it by now. Y’all, it feels like this thru-hike is knocking me out! After suffering Norovirus, after losing Sapling… we’ll, now I’m dealing with yet another setback in the form of a torn muscle in my lower left leg. He went the distance, meaning he didn’t get Knocked Out by the undefeated champion Apollo Creed. But he did manage to do something no other fighter had done before. Spoiler Alert from the original 1977 film: Rocky loses. They were cool, exciting and had a singular message throughout them all- that if you pour your heart and soul into any endeavor, no matter how badly the odds are stacked against you, you’ll come away from the experience better for having tried. When the Rocky movies were at their peak in popularity they served to influence a lot of kids my age. My career trajectory consisted of 5 main events: I went to the mall to see the greatest movie of all time, Rocky III I walked out of the theater and straight into the sporting goods store across from it to buy a cheap pair of boxing gloves I visited the record shop to pick up a 45 RPM recording of Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger” I went home to begin training and finally I retired with a record of 0 Wins- 0 Losses- and 1 Draw. In the summer of 1982 I was 15 years old and took up boxing.
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