![]() ![]() Mickey beamed with pride seeing what the countless hours of training had earned his student, as well as never personally and professionally giving up in the face of the defeat and obscurity. After exhaustion, a simultaneous punch knocked both men to the ground, which almost ended in a double KO draw (in which Creed would have retained his championship), however Rocky managed to stand up and be firmly on his feet by the count of 8, to which he was declared to have defeated Apollo Creed by knockout and become the new heavyweight champion. Using Mickey's tactics and training, Balboa held his stamina well into the later rounds, when both fighters tuckered out. The rematch went off to a roaring start, with Creed determined to drop Rocky within two rounds to prove the first fight was a fluke. He also converted Balboa from a left-handed fighting style to a right-handed style in an effort to both confuse Creed and to protect an eye Balboa had badly injured in the first fight. ![]() For the second fight with Creed, Goldmill utilised unique training methods to help Balboa gain speed. Eventually, after Creed's efforts at publicly embarrassing Balboa into a fight, Mickey began training Balboa for the rematch. While Balboa lost the fight to Creed, he managed to last the full fifteen rounds, a first for any of Creed's opponents.Ĭreed soon challenged Balboa for a rematch in the hospital, although Rocky did not agree or disagree initially, Mickey angrily stated that there would be no rematch and that Rocky was the rightful winner of their fight. Based on their uneasy prior relationship, Balboa was initially resistant but ultimately agreed to let Goldmill train him. When heavyweight champion Apollo Creed gave Balboa an unlikely shot at the title, Goldmill approaches him about being his manager. One of the regulars in his gym was Rocky Balboa, a local club fighter who had never realized his potential. Some time after his retirement, likely the 1960s, he opened a boxing gym in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mighty Mick's Boxing, and began to train fighters. Mick's Professional Record: 23 Wins, (17 K.O.'s), 1 Loss, and 1 Draw. Mickey's only professional loss was to Abe Goldstein. He retired in 1947, with his last fight being against the new up and coming Rocky Marciano, but it led to a draw. The reason his feat didn't garner any media attention is because he did not have a manger. ![]() Goldmill recalled that he once knocked Ginny Russel out of the ring on September 14, 1923, which was the same day that Luis Firpo had knocked out Jack Dempsey, the Heavyweight Champion. In his fights, Mickey had damage done to both of his eyes, thirty-four stitches being needed for his right, and twenty-one for his left, and also had his nose broken seventeen different times, the last of which occured to his fight with Saylor Mike. Mickey started boxing professionally in 1922, but never gained any measure of fame. Mickey Goldmill was born on Apto a Jewish family in Philadelphia, PA.Ī poster of Mickey Goldmill as a boxer in the 1920s. Goldmill is most likely based on legendary boxing trainer Cus D'amato. Michael "Mickey" Goldmill was the owner of Mighty Mick's Boxing and head Trainer of Rocky Balboa for most of Balboa's career. ![]() Mickey has gray hair in old age, but in young age, he has brown hair in Mighty Mick’s Gym poster and green eyes. He was Rocky Balboa's trainer from 1976 until his death in 1981. Michael "Mickey" Goldmill is the tritagonist in Rocky II, a major character in Rocky and Rocky III, a flashback character Rocky V and Rocky Balboa and a mentioned character in the Creed films. 'Cause when I leave you, you'll not only know how to fight, you'll be able to take care of yourself outside the ring, too." -Mickey to Rocky Balboa in Rocky V And I'll never leave you until that happens. We keep losing and losing till we say, you know, "What the hell am I livin' around here for? I got no reason to go on." But with you, kid, boy, I got a reason to go on, and I'm gonna stay alive, and I will watch you make good. Little by little, we lose our friends, we lose everything. The fact that you're here and doin' as well as you're doin' gives me, what do you call it, a motivization, huh, to stay alive? 'Cause I think that people die sometimes when they don't wanna live no more. Well, if you wasn't here, I probably wouldn't be alive today. Burgess Meredith " You know, kid, I know how you feel about this fight that's comin' up. ![]()
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