Creed Page #10

DR. SHAHANI

Your appetite?

Rocky shakes his head.

ROCKY:

Medium... I would say.

DR. SHAHANI

Well you have a history of head

trauma. And some of the symptoms

you describe are consistent with

dimentia pugilistica.

(off Rocky’s look)

But what has me worried is the loss

of appetite, and the vomiting. We

should run some tests.

ROCKY:

I’m sure you got allotta people

really needin your help. I’m good,

really. You should check out

somebody else.

DR. SHAHANI

I believe we should do it now, just

to be on the safe side.

ROCKY:

Gotta be fast, okay? Me and that

kid, we got allota work to do.

74 INT. HOSPITAL WAITING ROOM- NEXT MORNING 74

Adonis sits in the waiting room asleep. Rocky walks in with a

slight limp (from the muscle biopsy). He wakes Adonis up.

ROCKY:

All done kid. Let’s go.

Adonis pops up.

ADONIS:

Sh*t. What time is it?

ROCKY:

I don’t know...

ADONIS:

We going home?

ROCKY:

No, we’re going to the gym.

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They walk side by side, down the hospital hallway.

SUPER:
FIGHT NIGHT AKBAR VS. JOHNSON

75 INT. BLUE HORIZON- CONTINUOUS 75

The air is electric in the packed house. Two welterweight

boxers move around in the ring. It is an intimately designed

space, with an upper level of rowdy fans, that seems to sit

right on top of the ring.

The crowd is mixed, mostly Black and Italian though, and

standing room only.

We reveal that we are looking at the gym from Adonis’ POV,

stares out beyond the door of his locker room.

ROCKY (O.S.)

One more.

Adonis turns back into-

76 INT. BLUE HORIZON- CHALLENGER LOCKER ROOM- CONTINUOUS 76

Adonis squares up with Rocky, who takes him through a

complicated series of combinations. Adonis nails them with

pinpoint accuracy. Joe, Amir, Marcel, and Bianca look on.

ROCKY:

(to Adonis)

Listen, what you do here is

forever. It’s part of ya history.

You can’t change it, so use

everything I believe ya got. Keep

that jab constantly on him. Hit,

and not get hit. Joe, can ya warm

him up?

Joe hand steps forward with the focus mitts. Rocky glances

into the hallway and spots Sporino, who motions for him to

come and talk. As Rocky gets closer, we see Sporino looks

like the cat who ate the canary.

ROCKY (CONT’D)

Whats going on?

SPORINO:

I knew there had to be something

with this kid. I mean, I tried to

get you to come work with us for

years. And this Hollywood kid just

brings you out of the shadows?

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ROCKY:

Whattaya gettin at?

SPORINO:

I made some calls to LA. Aint no

Donnie Johnson. Kid’s name is

Adonis. Kid’s Creed’s blood.

Rocky sighs deeply.

SPORINO (CONT’D)

(smiling)

Fight just got big time...

ROCKY:

Yo, the kids tryna make it on his

own name. Don’t tell anybody.

SPORINO:

(without turning around)

Secret’s safe with me...

Rocky

77 INT. BLUE HORIZON- RING- CONTINUOUS 77

Adonis and Leo meet in the middle of the ring, the ref

between them, their corners behind them.

REFEREE:

Touch em up!

Adonis touches gloves with Leo, and heads back to his corner.

Joe, Amir, and Marcel head out of the ring. Rocky turns back

to face Adonis, he grabs him by the face and pulls him close.

ROCKY:

It’s you now okay? It’s all you,

this is what you’ve been waiting

for. I’m gonna be right here.

Adonis nods, intensely. Rocky steps out of the ring and looks

back.

Adonis turns around, and the SOUND of the crowd fades out for

a bit, while he looks and sees that only he, Leo, and the

referee remain in the ring. Leo looks at Adonis, bouncing,

looking relaxed and focused. DING! DING!

The NOISE of the stadium rushes back as the fighters head

towards each other, coming within arms reach right in the

middle of the ring. They stop and posture, Leo in perfect

stance.

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He throws the first punch, a stiff left jab, Adonis blocks it

and sends one back, Leo ducks it and catches Adonis clean

with two counters.

SPORINO:

Nice! Nice!

Adonis quickly shakes off the hits and grabs him. The ref

comes in.

REFEREE:

Alright, break it up, break it up.

The fighters back up, and then the Ref sends them back at

each other. Adonis bounces in on Leo, sends out a couple of

jabs. Leo blocks all of them, and sends a couple back at

Adonis, Adonis ducks the first few and tries to counter with

a left Jab, Leo slips it, and gets Adonis into the corner. He

begins sending shot after shot at Adonis. Adonis dodges a few

of them, and tries to do a hard slip to the right, when BLAM!

He is caught flush in the side of the head by a left hook

from Leo. Adonis is wobbled by this. The crowd explodes and

Leo raises his fists to show the crowd that he is about to

finish him off.

ROCKY:

Tie him up, and bang him on the

ropes!

Adonis does just that.

ROCKY (CONT’D)

The body now! Touch the body!

Adonis jabs three times to work his way in. Leo throws a big

right, which Adonis slips beautifully, and drives a hard wide

left hook to the ribs. Leo emits an audible grunt of pain.

Leo is hurt, as he spins out, Adonis throws a five punch

combo as the bell rings.

78 INT. ADONIS’ CORNER- BLUE HORIZON RING- CONTINUOUS 78

Joe Hand flips the chair over for Adonis to sit down into it.

Adonis sits down and Rocky takes out his mouthpiece. Marcel

works on the right side of his face with an ice pack.

ADONIS:

What do you think?

ROCKY:

Very good, what do you think?

59.

ADONIS:

I’m gonna move around a little.

Till my head clears.

ROCKY:

I like what you’re doing. Get ya

senses back, then drop ya left

below his radar, and come up with a

shovel hook. If you see the openin,

park ya right on his chin. Your

grandfather dropped me with that

combo. Works very good.

Adonis nods. Rocky puts his mouthpiece back in and Adonis

stands up. The team jumps out of the ring. DING! DING!

Adonis punches his gloves together and takes off.

79 INT. RING- BLUE HORIZON 79

Adonis and Leo approach each other and begin to circling.

Adonis keeps his right hand cocked creeps up on Leo with more

patience.

Two quick jabs from Leo, but Adonis slips both of them. He

continues to creep in- patient, not bouncing like before. He

takes a quick jab at Leo, who sidesteps it and reverses his

footing, cornering Adonis. He sends rapid shots at Adonis,

who goes into defense mode, caging up. Leo fakes backing off,

and then comes in with a rapid fire combo. Adonis narrowly

slips the hard left of Leo.

ROCKY:

Take it!

Adonis goes for the combo, dropping his left low, faking the

right, and brings up the shovel hook, driving Leo’s chin

upward, and BANG, a piledriving right lands with audible

force. Leo crumbles.

Adonis backs off, right hand still cocked as the Ref runs in

waving his hands, KO.

The ref waves his hands- TKO

Adonis quickly raises his hands and runs to the corner. Rocky

lifts his hands and runs into the ring.

ROCKY (CONT’D)

Way to go, kid! That was something!

ADONIS:

We got em, Unc. We got em.

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