The K&K Sports Show: Interview with Mike Kunda (The Yo, Philly! Rocky Film Tour)

Mike Kunda of The Yo, Philly! Rocky Film Tour returns to talk all things Rocky. He discusses with us some info on Creed 3, Rocky IV (Director's Cut) and a possible Rocky Prequel. And much much more Rocky info!!!

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This was such a great episode! I love Mike Kunda and he is by far the world's biggest Rocky fan! I plan on doing the Rocky film tour this fall, I live in Utah. I love the Rocky talk as well as the Creed 3 talk. Speaking of Creed 3, here is my Creed 3 story idea. See below. My sketch of Creed 3, raw and rough idea's
TJ
- The Creed story needs to be about how Adonis functions as a father with a deaf child and deaf wife
- How you communicate as a family should be the theme of the film
- How does Adonis find his passion for boxing now the Rocky is gone
- Creed 3 is about going back to the basics; maturing as a husband, father, and man
- Adonis fights a much younger, more skilled fighter
The Story
- It’s been 3 years since Adonis has fought Victor Drago
- Rocky has moved away to be with his son
- Adonis has lost his passion for boxing and is struggling with depression
- A New Heavy Weight Champion has been chosen by the US boxing committee due to Adonis failure to defend his title
- Young brash Ublado “Speed” Sanchez, an American Hispanic gold medalist wants to cement his legacy as the best pound for pound fighter but needs to beat Adonis to officially be recognized as the greatest in his era
- Ublado is undefeated, younger and more skilled
- Adonis’s wife, Bianca, has lost her hearing completely and their challenge is how to not only communicate with each other but how to raise their 3 yr old daughter who is also deaf
- Bianca lost her music deal and is struggling to find peace with her hearing loss and becoming a mother
- Adonis is stressed and struggling to understand how to be a father to a deaf child,
- Adonis's biggest struggle is how to communicate with his deaf daughter
- Adonis’ mother comes to stay with the family and helps out while giving advice and teaching moments to her son about rising a family.
- Adonis trainer, Tony “Little Duke” Burton tries to rekindle Adonis’s love for fighting by taking him to one of Ublado’s fights
- Ublado notices that Adonis is in the crowd and confronts him after his victory fight
- Adonis ignores Ublado’s requests to fight him
- Bianca noticing that Adonis’s depression has taken a toll and she starts to urge him to get back in the ring
- Adonis accepts Ublado’s challenge
- Press conference is very much a spectacle and hype event for Ublao
- Adonis goes back to Philly (where it all started: Go back to the basics) to train
- Adonis is struggling to train and temporally gives up
- Rocky’s son ( or Rocky.... if Sly decides to be in the movie this would be his only part) Robert hears that Adonis is struggling and shows up in Philly to help motivate Adonis to fight. Robert gives Adonis the gold boxing glove neckless that Rocky gave him; the same neckless Micky gave to Rocky. A scene of love or passing on the torch
- Adonis beats Ublado in the 12 round by knockout

Adonis: Training Scene
- Back in Philly and in the old gym where he trained in Creed 1; the Same training staff except Tony is now part of Adonis’s team like he was in Creed 2.
- Adonis’s needs to become not only faster but quicker
- Trains old school; blood sweat and tears
- Final scene in the training montage; Adonis running up the rocky steps with power and honor for Rocky (highly emotional music, gritty expressions on Adonis face) very emotional scene
Ublado: Training Scene
- Upper class Olympic boxing facility
- Multiple super talented sparing partners, state of the art training; Ublado is aggressive and arrogant
Fight scene
- Fight takes place in LA
- Bianca and their daughter do not attend the fight until the final round
- Adonis is getting plumaged by the speed and quickness of Ublado
- Ublado starts to fatigue in the final round
- Adonis starts to get a 2nd breath and starts winning in the 12th round
- The final knockout scene is similar to Rocky 2 as both Ublado and Adonis fall down
- The referee starts counting
- The feeling is a high pressure, heart pounding as both boxers fall to the ground
- Adonis is bloody and his vision is blurred the room is spinning he’s exhausted he can’t hear the crowd chanting his name but catches a glimpse of his daughter in the crowd holding up her hands in sign language “I love you, Daddy”
- Adonis with all his might pulls himself up off the rope and wins!
- Adonis is crying and holding his daughter along with his wife
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Themes in the movie
- Go back to the basics
- Irony in the characters; Adonis becomes more Rocky and Ublado is more Creed
- Ubalod is a cocky, condescending, pampered athletic, and much more talented than Adonis
- Adonis is broken emotionally and struggling to find relevance as a boxer
- The Creed family’s new dynamic is how to communicate now that wife and child are deaf