Apollo Creed's son, Adonis, brings new life to the franchise with personal challenges and a legacy to honor. Both fans and critics debate the best Rocky movies, finding layers of personal triumph ...

Adonis Johnson is the son of the famous boxing champion Apollo Creed, who died in a boxing match in Rocky IV (1985). Adonis wasn't born until after his father's death and wants to follow his ...

But even though Weathers isn’t in the movie, his spirit certainly is in the character of Adonis Creed, who takes on Viktor Drago—the son of Ivan Drago, the man who killed Apollo—in the film.

As the son of Apollo Creed, the effortlessly charismatic Jordan nails his father’s flamboyance, but also gives Donny a brittleness beneath the braggadocio. He’s a young man caught between the ...