Rocky and the myths of boxing

Rocky Balboa, the boxer imagined by Sylvester Stallone, is today a true myth whose saga spans eight films released between 1976 and 2018. To build this long-term story, the actor was largely inspired by real boxing, its mythologies, its legends, its exploits and its dramas. By watching the Rocky films, we leaf through the great book of the noble art, we browse a sort of summary of this magnificent sport. The epic of the Philadelphia boxer is that, in the background, of boxing. The book Rocky & the myths of boxing attempts to analyze and explain the links between fiction and reality, between the story of Rocky and the history of boxing. A work that is aimed as much at boxing fans as at those of the seventh art.

Meddy Ligner is the author of the book Les Treize grandes malédictions du sport published by Amphora, of two novels Les Roses de Karakorum and Semper Lupa published by Armada, of a collection of short stories Un Dimanche après midi sur la Lune published by Rivière Blanche and of numerous articles on sports or on imaginary literature. He is also a comic book columnist and he created the Bulles de Sport Prize which, each year, rewards the best sports comic strip.