Sky Sports’s new documentary is stacked with sobering soundbites. In one scene, boxing coach Joe Gallagher recalls hearing a mother ask her son: “Are all the lows worth that one high?” The answer, of course, was “yes”. As Gallagher puts it: “Everyone wants their own Rocky story.”
But as Sky explores, that doesn’t always mean a rousing underdog story. Rocky’s sequels showed Sylvester Stallone’s character struggling with retirement, and this is the premise of The Final Round.
