Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Granted, Rocky IV's writer-director-star didn't take the decision to kill off such an important character lightly. "It was a tough ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Carl Weathers, the versatile actor who is best remembered as Apollo Creed in the "Rocky" franchise, has died. He was 76. Weathers ...

CARL WEATHERS: (As Apollo Creed) We don't even have a choice. See; we're born with a killer instinct that you can't just turn off and on like some radio. We have to be right in the middle of the ...

Carl Weathers, a former NFL linebacker who became a Hollywood action movie and comedy star, playing nemesis-turned-ally Apollo Creed in the "Rocky" movies, facing off against Arnold Schwarzenegger in ...

Although Rocky at first desires to leave the professional boxing world behind, Apollo Creed successfully pulls him back in for a rematch. While Rocky didn't win against Apollo, he got closer than any ...