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He becomes Tommy Gunn's manager during his shot at the Heavyweight Champion title. Tony Burton as Tony "Duke" Evers: Rocky's friend, and former trainer and manager of Apollo Creed. Michael Williams as Union Cane: Reigning Heavyweight Champion of the World who wants to fight legendary Rocky, and eventually fights Tommy Gunn. Williams was also a ...
Morrison is also known for his acting career, having starred alongside Sylvester Stallone in the 1990 film Rocky V as Tommy Gunn. Morrison made a brief comeback to boxing from 2007 to 2008 when the Nevada commission lifted the indefinite worldwide suspension in July 2006, [1] and briefly dabbled in the world of MMA. As a mixed martial artist ...
Rocky soon becomes the manager to the new World Heavyweight Champion Tommy Gunn but Tony does not reappear in the film as Rocky eventually repels the challenge of a jealous Gunn in a street fight. Tony "Duke" Evers returns for a sixth time in Rocky Balboa , which takes place fifteen years after the previous film.
While training other boxers, Rocky meets a young, hungry boxer named Tommy Gunn (real-life fighter Tommy Morrison) and begins training him which results in a strained relationship with Robert. As Tommy begins his rise to fame under Rocky's wing, fight promoter George Washington Duke convinces Tommy to leave Rocky for Duke.
Rocky ultimately didn't emerge the victor in that fight, but he — and we — won something more valuable: a film franchise that's endured for nearly a half-century and counting.
Before this Rocky explores the abandoned gym and tearfully remembers Mickey's motivation speech feeling immense guilt to have lost everything he fought for feeling he let Mickey down. When Rocky gets into a street fight with his former protégé Tommy Gunn he hallucinates Mickey telling him to get up motivating Rocky to win the fight against Tommy.
During Rocky's fight with Tommy Gunn, Rocky sees visions of Drago killing Apollo while believing he is about to suffer the same fate at Tommy's hands. Balboa is saved when he witnesses the ghostly, fragmented dream figure of his old trainer, Mickey, exhorting Rocky to get up and fight one more time, thus inspiring him to defeat Tommy.
Only six episodes were aired. Behind the scenes, Funk choreographed the street fight between Rocky Balboa and his nemesis Tommy Gunn at the end of Rocky V. Funk's name can be seen in the end credits. Funk also had a short lived career in music. The release of the album "Great Texan" in 1984 which was a soft rock AOR oriented album.