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'You're gonna crap thunder!'

Forget images of Rocky shuffling round the ring with Zimmer frame and incontinence pads, the chaste noble athlete is back with a vengeance

By Stephen Holden  /  NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , NEW YORK

Rocky Balboa drags its feet for a dangerously long time before the main course sashays onto the screen. When a computer-simulated match between Rocky (in his fighting prime) and the current heavyweight champion Mason (The Line) Dixon (the light heavyweight Antonio Tarver), determines that Rocky would win, people get excited.

Dixon, though undefeated, has earned so little respect after a series of easy victories that his management decides that an exhibition match in which Dixon holds back his full power would be good for his career.

A grunting and heaving training montage follows, and finally the bout, a 10-round cliffhanger in Las Vegas with every bell and whistle activated, in which neither fighter holds back. And that's it. Gonna fly now.

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