Bullz-Eye.com recently chatted with entertainer Adam Carolla on a variety of topics, including his new boxing-themed comedy, “The Hammer.” In the interview, Carolla notes in a roundabout way that he doesn’t think the boxing scenes in “Rocky III” were very realistic.
Bullz-Eye.com: Well, given your boxing experience, I guess you didn’t actually have a fight choreographer on the film, per se.
Adam Carolla: We did some work on it in advance, but not too much. And it ended up just kind of going out the window, anyway. We ended up kind of working it out. I mean, I knew how to do it, and we weren’t making “Rocky III” here. I mean, we knew the fight scenes were going to be…we tried to make them as effective as possible, but we knew with our budget…and the budget is really just about time constraints…you have to keep moving. We knew that stuff would be, like, hopefully realistic and effective, but not on a grand scale. Plus, I wanted to make something that was a little less theatrical in the boxing department because boxing matches don’t go…it’s, like, Mr. T doesn’t punch Sylvester Stallone in the face 10 times in a row and then Stallone yells, “Come on!” You hit the ground. You get hit that many times, and it makes you angry. Plus, it was amateur boxing. I was trying to make it a little…there is a little difference between the amateur and the pro ring. I was trying to kind of focus on that.
What’s Carolla talking about? Looks like a realistic fight to me:
