In Sylvester Stallone’s mind, he had hung up the boxing gloves. No more jogging up the Philadelphia Museum of Art steps. No more “Yo, Adrian!” No more one-armed push-ups to the strains of “Gonna Fly Now.” No more Rocky. After 2006’s “Rocky Balboa,” the sixth installment in the series about the perennial-underdog fighter, Stallone figured he was most likely forever done playing the character he’d first brought to life in the seminal 1976 smash “Rocky.” “That movie was the toughest sell of all,” the actor recalled of “Rocky Balboa” on a recent afternoon. “‘Rocky V’ was considered a failure financially and critically. Now 15 years have passed. ‘You want to play a boxer who’s 60 years old —...
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