Sylvester Stallone Wins His First Golden Globe Award for ‘Creed’

Sylvester Stallone has said reprising the character of Rocky Balboa was “daunting”, describing himself as “an old dog learning new tricks”.

Nearly 40 years since Sylvester Stallone first donned his boxing gloves as Rocky Balboa, the Oscar-nominated actor delivers an emotional wallop as the retired prizefighter in Ryan Coogler’s brooding and testosterone-fuelled drama.

Sylvester joked: “I hope so, I hope so…” Like a different-different situation.

Stallone, of course, might be the odds-on favorite to direct a sequel that either heavily or exclusively dealt with Rocky and Apollo. “I was a kind of a peripatetic actor, on the road all the time, and I wasn’t really in the moment [when they were growing up]”.

The other finalists announced Tuesday for the $20,000 award, given for the best short fiction, are Charles Baxter’s “There’s Something I Want You to Do” and Colum McCann’s “Thirteen Ways of Looking”. “That began a long doldrum”. The star has been drumming up quite a bit of enthusiasm for his reprisal of unstoppable boxer Rocky Balboa for Creed, and that comeback-story narrative propelled him to a victory this evening. He ran back on stage to do so, but it wasn’t aired.

Although Stallone dressed to impress for the occasion, many Twitter users took a particular interest in the ladies in Stallone’s life.

According to the Times, Coogler wasn’t bothered by the near-miss.

“And what he said was so nice!” It was so brutal, which civil war is, I was shocked they even gave me an R-rating.

Tessa, who plays Adonis’s love interest Bianca, said: “We tried not to think too much about the legacy, because I think if we did, we’d all get in our heads and be anxious that we couldn’t satisfy it”.