Editor's Note: The following is excerpted from "The Official Rocky Scrapbook ... for more than 35 hours to choreograph the fight scenes. "And the fighters move from their corners.

Sylvester Stallone's Rocky Balboa doesn't seem to be in Creed 3, but there might still be a chance for the character to appear in the film.

Sylvester Stallone sweated it out for real by lifting Hulk Hogan who was twice his weight while filming 1982's now-iconic Rocky III fight scene.

In one now-immortal scene, in which Rocky is training for his big fight with Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers), the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art are prominently featured. To this day ...

That win, the third in a sequence of eight consecutive victories between April 1972 and October 1974, secured Wepner the biggest fight and biggest ... of the no-hoper Rocky Balboa who managed ...

And when it came to making Rocky Balboa in 2006, that fight was no walk in the park. The movie marked the return of the iconic Philly boxer and was the toughest challenge Stallone ever faced.