I’ve been referring to Rocky Balboa as “The Italian Stallion” for pretty much my entire life. All along, I thought the reason for that was because somewhere in the Rocky movies he was referred to by that nickname. Lo and behold, I stumble upon this video and learn that Rocky never had that nickname in the movie. “Italian Stallion” was the name of the porn flick Sly starred in prior to his Rocky fame. The nickname was completely unrelated and yet somehow it stuck. At only 8 years old I was taunting Sly and his pornographic past. I feel like a part of my childhood innocence was stolen and I didn’t even know it.

On a lighter note, this video is hilarious. The footage from “Italian Stallion” is almost scene for scene identical to the documentary footage of Dirk Diggler as Brock Landers in Boogie Nights. This is obviously where they got their inspiration.

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