How did Rocky become smarter as he got older?

[Osculater]

He also apparently overcame the brain damage and CTE.

He's like Mr Burns ......... how Burns has so many aolments they all keep each other at bay so he survives.

Rocky has so much CTE it counteracts each other allowing brain growth .

He was taking stem cell injections into his spinal cord from an alternative doctor from Greenland. He had 85% brain recovery from CTE damages. That is science, bitch!

 

[tabascojet]

In the first film he was mentally challenged with low IQ, in the sequels he just turns into a normal person. He eventually just becomes Sylvester Stallone.

NZT-48

 

[ferrisjso]

When all the mentor characters died Rocky became the mentor character.

 

[blaseblase]

He also apparently overcame the brain damage and CTE.

And his bad eye in Rocky 2 that is never addressed again.

 

[Fedorgasm]

Serious answer is that Adrian taught him to read and he started reading a lot. So he became better educated.

The rest is life experience.

The only unrealistic part is that Rocky seems to have suffered zero brain damage when he's old. After those beatings he took that dude would be drooling on his wheelchair by 60.

 

[TheChance]

He wasn't mentally challenged he had a relaxed brain

 

[HARRISON_3]

Alpha Brain

 

[Osculater]

He wasn't mentally challenged he had a relaxed brain

He was a late bloomer in the brain

 

[franquito]

I think it's heavily implied he has a healing factor similar to Wolverine
In Rocky 2 it's stated he can barely see out of his one eye, and it is unsafe for him to fight
But a few movies later he is beating up Drago and Tommy and everyone without any mention of vision problems.

Another hot take - Throwing the towel would not have saved Apollo, since Drago already pushed the ref out of the way when he tried to stop it.

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

Most geniuses are mentally challenged

 

[Long Dark Blues]

It's called life experience.

It's called growing up.

It's called life.

Nerd.

 

[blaseblase]

It's called life experience.

It's called growing up.

It's called life.

Nerd.

He was already in his 30s during the first movie.

 

[Long Dark Blues]

He was already in his 30s during the first movie.

30-year-olds in 2024 still live with their parents and are barely adults.

He was more advanced in life than that.

 

[PaddyO'malley]

Brain Calcification fam just like you get callouses on ur handz ur brain get stronger u see it in slaps fam yutes start out gettin' bucked in 1 shot str8 snorin' fam mandem come back stronger tho eventually last 5rds no caps fam

Wouldn't doubt u get smarter too fam prolly better circuitry can't say fi sure tho dey ain't call me yet prolly thot mans was too powerful training with Big Mac but I'll let you know tho fam

 

[Dream Evil]

All the HGH grew his tiny brain into a regular sized brain.

 

[-sin-]

 

[Cheshire_Rat]

We all know Paulie is the brains behind everything. Rock is a bum.

 

[jimbob27]

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The guy single-handedly took down the soviet union and ended the cold war. They should send him to fix the middle east next.

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

He got KOd really bad by Apollo in the first movie and he got put in a coma. The events of Rocky II onward never happened. They’re all just a coma dream before Adrian and Mickey tell the doctors to pull the plug. In this coma Rocky dreams himself becoming a better boxer and a smarter person. Irl he got turned into a vegetable in the third round.

 

[mixmastermo]

He got KOd really bad by Apollo in the first movie and he got put in a coma. The events of Rocky II onward never happened. They’re all just a coma dream before Adrian and Mickey tell the doctors to pull the plug. In this coma Rocky dreams himself becoming a better boxer and a smarter person. Irl he got turned into a vegetable in the third round.

For real? Even the parts about becoming friends with Apollo, then Apollo later dying and then his illegitimate child growing up to be a boxer many years later then going out to seek his uncle Rocky to train?

That's a long ass a coma. Adrian and Mickey waited a long time before pulling that plug.