Title: Hulk Hogan & Sylvester Stallone Rocky III Movie Still
Year created: 1982
Medium: Movie Still, Black & White Photograph
Height (inches): 16-1/4
Width (inches): 20-1/4
Depth (inches): 1
This piece is framed.
Description of piece:
Collect this hand-signed movie still from the 1982 blockbuster film Rocky III, with Sylvester Stallone in the titular role of “Rocky” vs Hulk Hogan as the world wrestling champion “Thunderlips”!
In this perfectly composed movie still, Rocky Balboa (played by Sylvester Stallone) faces off against world wrestling champion Thunderlips (played by WWF & WCW champion and wrestling icon Hulk Hogan). In the Rocky III storyline, the highly publicized match— Rocky vs Thunderlips— had been arranged as an exhibition charity fundraising event.
Hulk Hogan has signed the photograph in an exceptionally large signature, directly in the top center, above the referee. He has signed in bold white paint pen.
The photograph comes framed and ready for display in a custom black metal gallery-style frame. Framed size measures 16-1/4 in height x 20-1/4" width x 1" depth.
Affixed to the photograph, lower right corner, are 2 authenticating labels. Hulk Hogan signed the photo in the presence of a PSA/DNA representative, and the first label corresponds to the item’s listing in PSA/DNA’s online Certification Database. The second label is from Total Sports Enterprises, and the framed piece also comes with a COA from Total Sports.
Rocky III is the third installment in the Rocky film series, and the second in the franchise to be directed by Stallone. Released in 1982 and written, directed by, and starring Sylvester Stallone, the film features returning co-stars Carl Weathers, Burgess Meredith, Talia Shire, Burt Young and Tony Burton. Rocky III also marked the film debuts of Mr. T as James "Clubber" Lang, and of professional wrestler Hulk Hogan as "Thunderlips".
The film's main theme music, Eye of the Tiger, written by the group Survivor, became a smash hit single, topping the U.S. Billboard charts and receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song.
Rocky III was an enormous box office success, nationally and internationally, and surpassed the gross of its predecessor— leading Siskel & Ebert's Gene Siskel to quip, "if you want a hugely successful series, then make sure that the second one is a winner."