Losing Rocky Balboa’s vote

Rocky, the son of Italian immigrants works at a butcher’s shop while fighting – in the literal sense of the world – to reach the top.
In the end that’s what the first Rocky film showed: he lost the fight against Apollo Creed but his wholehearted attempt shocked the world.
Many years before Rocky premiered in 1976, Joe Frazier would run up the stone steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
They saw him duke it out with Muhammad Ali in the “fight of the century” and play with his soul-funk band.
Still, Isaiah Wise, a 24-year-old boxing coach, admits how important the fictional character has become to the city.

Fuente: http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/08/01/inenglish/1470058238_147925.html