Warning: This article contains spoilers for Creed III.When Rocky Balboa agreed to train the son of former opponent Apollo Creed in Creed, two legacies collided, and Creed III honors that commitment by making Rocky 7 with Stallone a possibility. The capstone of the Creed trilogy makes a seven-year time jump from Creed II, when Michael B. Jordan's Adonis Creed fought the son of the Siberian Express, Viktor Drago. When an old childhood friend played by Jonathan Majors gets out of prison and wants to steal Donnie's legacy, they settle their past trauma in the ring during Creed III.

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