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    THE RANKING

    Aug 02, 2020 4 minutes

    The Rocky Saga

    Chris: Let’s start with the age-old question. What’s the first Rocky film you remember?

    Terri: Mine is Rocky II. My mum used to be a barmaid in this pub and we’d sit in the lodgings upstairs while she worked. It was New Year’s Eve and we rifled through their tape collection and found Rocky II to put on. I must have been nine or ten. And it knocked my socks off. The fight scenes are incredible. The whole class element of Rocky really touches me, but I remember being blown away by the emotion and the heart of it. I think, cumulatively, I’ve seen them all over 100 times.

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