Sylvester Stallone Shares Vintage Photos From Filming Rocky’s Apollo Creed Fight

Syslvestor Stallone has taken to his Instagram to share a few behind-the-scenes moments from his days of playing boxer Rocky Balboa. The actor captioned the first photo with, “Flashback! Rocky versus Apollo Creed! 1976… One of my favorite photos.”

Flashback! Rocky versus Apollo Creed! 1976… One of my favorite photos.

A photo posted by Sly Stallone (@officialslystallone) on Feb 2, 2016 at 3:32pm PST

Stallone captioned this one with, “FLASHBACK 1976. Comeback!” which shows filming of the famous fight.

  FLASHBACH 1976. Comeback!   A photo posted by Sly Stallone (@officialslystallone) on Feb 4, 2016 at 5:07am PST

The last photo he shared was of himself with the caption, “FLASHBACK. Thank you all for making this ” long shot’s “dream come through… Keep Punching!”

FLASHBACK. Thank you all for making this ” long shot’s ” dream come through… Keep Punching!

A photo posted by Sly Stallone (@officialslystallone) on Feb 4, 2016 at 6:16am PST

With the success of the hit film, Creed directed by Ryan Coogler, Stallone’s career has been jumpstarted. The actor recently took home the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Creed.