• Sylvester Stallone seriously injured a pectoral muscle during his intensive training for Rocky II.
  • When Rocky is seen training, he is sparring with a smaller and quicker fighter. The sparring partner is played by real life champion Roberto Duran.
  • This movie is notable for being the first of the Rocky films that Stallone would not only write and star in, but direct as well.
  • During the “Beast Aftershave” commercial filming scene, the clapper board reads “Director: John Pleshette”, the real name of the actor playing the director.
  • The book that Rocky reads to Adrian is Edgar Rice Burrough’s “The Deputy Sheriff of Comanche County” which was originally published in 1940 (click to buy the book!).