Rocky Balboa Page #5

Who's got the right

to tell you that? Who? Nobody!

It's your right to listen to your gut.

It's nobody's right to say no...

...after you earn the right to be what you

wanna be or do what you wanna do!

The older I get, the more things

I gotta leave behind. That's life.

The only thing I'm asking you guys

to leave on the table is what's right.

Yo! Have you seen

the paper today?

Front row. Front row.

That is so great.

- All right, all right.

- Let's go get some food. Food.

- Let's get a beer. Come on.

- Come on.

The last two pay-per-views

were in the toilet.

You're not making

heavyweight-championship money.

There's a bunch of nobodies

out there, Mase.

I wanna talk to you about an

opportunity we should run with.

Look at me. You heard Rocky Balboa

applied for a license and got one?

- I heard. Forget about him.

- Hear me out.

You want me to fight a guy I can beat

with both hands tied behind my back.

Everybody knows you could beat him

sitting down. That's not what it's about.

It's about making money. We gotta

capitalize on that computer fight.

This could do a million buys.

That's 15, 20 million to you.

- Forget it.

- No one's beating the door down...

...to watch you fight anymore.

- We got guaranteed fights.

You wanna do this now in front

of your friends, we'll do it now.

We got nothing. All the pay-per-view

fights you come up with got rejected.

You know why? They're all bums

out there. Nobody cares about them.

There's no marquee value.

But this Balboa thing is interesting.

- I don't wanna do it.

- Listen to me.

It's a has-been, never-gonna-be world.

Call it nostalgia, whatever you want...

...but people relate to that stuff.

This is a no-lose. It's all good.

- Good for who?

- For you! Not for me! For you!

Maybe you don't understand.

People don't like you no more.

They don't follow you. They're not

supporting you anymore. Understand?

Don't look at me like

I'm messing with your legacy.

Every jock now thinks

they got a legacy.

A legacy is what you get instead

of getting paid. That's a legacy.

- Don't talk to me like I'm stupid.

- I'm not no more.

Everybody knows you could kick

this old man's ass. But you don't.

Leave him with a little

dignity, so they say:

"Mason Dixon's got compassion.

He's a decent guy, he's a nice guy."

You get a whole new audience,

we'll double your money.

You want a new image?

That's how you get it.

To replace the one

that you two made?

Whoa, wait. We made your

world green. You made the rest.

This is you.

You made all this junk happen.

I've had it up to here with this mess.

Time for me to make changes.

I'm going to Martin's gym.

- We'll talk about it.

- Forget this crap.

I want Martin back.

There's nothing to talk about.

- How you doing?

- Hey, what a surprise.

I was driving around

the neighborhood, I thought...

...why not drive by and say hello?

- You wanna come inside?

No, the dog needs some exercise.

You wanna take a little walk?

- Yeah, yeah. All right.

- It's nice outside.

- All right.

- Nice and brisk.

When did you get a dog?

We picked up Punchy

a couple of days back.

- Punchy?

- Yeah.

You named your dog Punchy?

Your kid come up with the name.

Oh, yeah?

I think that's disrespectful.

Oh, no, no. It's fine, really.

No, it's easy to remember

and it's all that, you know.

Listen, what do you think about

coming over to the restaurant?

- What for?

- Well, you know, for, like... .

For work. The hostess is gonna

be having a kid. You'd do good.

- I don't know.

- I'm telling you, you'd do so good.

I appreciate what you're doing

for my kid, but I can't.

Hey, listen, I think you'd like it a lot.

It's a nice environment,

it's very pleasant.

Yeah, can we drop it?

What's bothering you?

Nothing. It's all right.

Listen, I gotta get back.

- No, it ain't all right.

- Oh, come on.

- What?

- I'm gonna be the first person...

...people see when they walk in?

- You give out menus.

You say, "Hello, how are you?"

You sit people down.

Look, if I can do it,

anybody can do it.

You could find 10 better people,

a hundred better people for this job.

Give it a try, like two weeks.

I don't wanna try.

- Who put this stuff in your head?

- Nobody.

Well, it just don't

get in there by itself.

Thanks for coming by.

Yo, when was the last time you

went dancing? Has it been a while?

- Why are you asking?

- I'm asking because...

...you dance around these problems,

you might as well dance with me.

I ain't that good,

but I'm better than the average bear.

Where that came from, I don't know.

- You're crazy.

- A little bit.

But the way you're thinking

and talking, it's a little crazy too.

Come on, you deserve better.

Really. Come on over.

I need you to class my place up.

Philly needs you.

And if you say, "Screw you, creepo"

again, I totally understand.

But I'm warning you,

I'm gonna put myself...

...in the middle of the street here...

...and stand here, me and Punchy,

and wave to the first bus, say:

"Come on over here and mash me!

Little Marie turned down

the job at the restaurant.

She thinks she's better than us."

Oh, yeah? Well, there hasn't been

a bus down here in 20 years.

- Yeah?

- No.

That was a close call.

Listen, seriously. Come on over.

It'd be nice.

All right.

Paulie!

Sorry, Paulie.

Sorry.

How are you?

Get my unusual up there.

Excuse me.

Deliveries are in the back.

I'm not a delivery guy.

Well, do you have a reservation?

Do I look like a freaking Indian?

Hey, Rock? Rocky?

I think we've got a little bit

of a problem with this guy.

Problem?

No, no, he's just a relative.

Oh, okay.

Yo, Paulie.

- What happened to your eye?

- I hit it.

- Why?

- Needed to.

What happened?

- I'm celebrating, Rock.

- Why?

- I retired.

- Retired?

So when did they start

giving retired people meat...

...instead of watches, Paulie?

I don't need a watch.

I got a watch! You gave me a watch!

Paulie--

I don't need no goddamn watch.

- Yo, Paulie.

- I got a watch!

I got two watches!

Yo, Paulie!

Yo, Paulie.

Rock.

It takes guts climbing back in that ring,

knowing you're gonna take a beating.

You're gonna do all right, Rocko.

How do you know that?

The stuff in the basement.

Thanks, Paulie.

- Hey.

- Hey, Rock, how are you?

- You okay?

- Yeah, good. How are you?

- Yeah, fine. This is great.

- Good.

Listen, some guys over there

wanna talk to you.

- Okay. You got it.

- Okay?

- Thanks for coming by. I appreciate it.

- Our pleasure.

- Wanna hear stories?

- What kind of stories?

Well, a lot of people like to hear

these old fight stories.

- Maybe later.

- Okay.

I'm Lou DiBella. This is L.C. Luco.

He's Mason Dixon's manager.

- Will you sit down and join us?

- Sure.

You know, we have the promotional

contract for Mason Dixon...

...who's a big fan.

- Really?

When he heard you were

interested in fighting...

...he thought why not try

to work something out?

Like a special event.

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