Editing Rocky V (section)

==Production==
===Filming===
Filming began in mid-January 1990.<ref name="loveinway">{{cite news |date=January 23, 1990 |last=Hinds |first=Michael Decourcy |title=Love Gets in the Way as Rocky V Starts Filming |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/23/movies/love-gets-in-the-way-as-rocky-v-starts-filming.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=21 December 2024 }}</ref> Some of the fight sequences were filmed at [[The Blue Horizon]] in Philadelphia, a venue which was a mecca for boxing in the city during the 1970s.<ref>{{cite web |title=Philly's Rocky V Boxing Venue Abandoned and Demolished |url=https://totalrocky.com/articles/philadelphia-rocky-v-boxing-venue-demolished/ |website=totalrocky.com |date=January 17, 2017 |access-date=3 July 2022}}</ref>

The Rocky statue, which was commissioned for ''[[Rocky III]]'', had since been gifted to the city of Philadelphia and moved to the entrance of the [[Spectrum (arena)|Spectrum]], and so had to be moved back to the [[Philadelphia Museum of Art]] for the filming.<ref name="loveinway" />

Scenes with Mickey, played by [[Burgess Meredith]], were trimmed in the final film when Rocky fights Tommy. Mickey appeared in ghost form on top of the railway bridge, giving words of encouragement. In the final film, this was made into flashbacks. The speech Mickey gives to Rocky in the flashback sequence is based on an interview with [[Cus D'Amato]] given in 1985, shortly after [[Mike Tyson]]'s first professional bout.<ref>{{cite AV media |title=Mickeys Inspiration was Cus D'Amato ROCKY V SPEECH| website=[[YouTube]] | date=September 21, 2017 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFWwGfqtl4g}}</ref>

In the original script, Rocky is killed during the final fight with Tommy, dying in Adrian's arms in the street.<ref>{{cite news |title= He could have been a contender |date=December 5, 1997 |newspaper=[[Independent (newspaper)|Independent]] |url= https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/he-could-have-been-a-contender-1286809.html |access-date=October 29, 2010 |location=London |first=Nick |last=Hasted }}</ref> The ending, which had Adrian eulogize Rocky by saying, "As long as there are people willing to meet challenges of life and not surrender until their dreams become realities, the world will always have their Rockys", would not come to pass. Producer [[Irwin Winkler]] and Avildsen were not big on the ending, with the former stating that it was never shot while also stating that Stallone eventually was convinced to change the ending.<ref>{{cite web | date=November 19, 2021 |author=Ethan Alter | title='Rocky' producer Irwin Winkler on the movie's original ending, and why Sly Stallone's beloved boxer will never die | url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/rocky-sylvester-stallone-irwin-winkler-original-ending-183035182.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211119210952/https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/rocky-sylvester-stallone-irwin-winkler-original-ending-183035182.html |archive-date=2021-11-19 }}</ref>

===Continuity===
In the years following the film's release, Stallone acknowledged that the injury which forces Rocky to retire, referenced in the film as a potentially lethal form of '[[brain damage]]', was inaccurate.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aintitcool.com/node/30861 |title=Round One With Sylvester Stallone Q&A!! |website=Aintitcool.com |access-date=December 1, 2015}}</ref> Stallone stated that having discussed the story with many boxing medical professionals, the injury Rocky suffered was a milder form of brain damage, similar to that of a long term concussion that many boxers suffer from and by modern-day standards are still able to gain licenses to box. It would not have prevented Rocky from gaining a license to box nor killed him, which is why he is allowed to box again in ''Rocky Balboa''.<ref name="AICNQA">{{cite web|author=Moriaty|url=http://www.aintitcool.com/node/30861|title=Round One With Sylvester Stallone Q&A!!|website=[[Ain't It Cool News]]|date=December 1, 2006|access-date=June 15, 2009}}</ref>

The age of Robert Jr. has often been cited as a continuity error, as in ''Rocky IV,'' which is set in 1985, he is 9 years old, yet in ''Rocky V,'' which takes place immediately after ''Rocky IV'', he is 14 years old.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Eker-Male |first=Nathanial |date=2022-09-28 |title=Rocky Theory Finally Explains Robert Balboa’s Infamous Age Jump Plot Hole |url=https://screenrant.com/rocky-v-robert-balboa-age-jump-plothole-theory/ |access-date=2025-04-19 |website=ScreenRant |language=en}}</ref>