• Rocky is a widower. Sorry, Talia Shire. The first scene in Philadelphia shows Rocky visiting Adrian's grave. No word on the fates of Cuff and Link.

• Rocky still lives in Philadelphia, where he operates a small business, but spends most of his time talking about the glory days. He still hankers for the ring and takes the occasional bout, way down on the has-been undercard.

• A popular video game that matches the greatest fighters of all time has Rocky Balboa beating egotistical current champ Mason "The Line" Dixon. This sticks in Dixon's craw, so he proposes an exhibition, with proceeds going to charity. Rocky initially declines, then accepts.

• No word on the outcome of the big fight, but as was the case in the original, Rocky is trying to prove a point just by finishing, not by winning. Stallone sees the aged Rocky as the standard bearer for bionic boomers, those who do not want to age gracefully.