Goofs

During the big fight, the arena is clearly empty at times. This is because only 50 extras could be afforded for the scenes, and despite cinematographer James Crabe's best efforts to hide this fact, occasionally, if one looks hard enough, one can see most of the arena is empty.

The number "2" disappears off Rocky's apartment door after he answers the door to let Micky in.

At the end of the fight, when Apollo and Rocky are hugging, Apollo's manager comes up to him in the close-up shot. Then they switch to an aerial shot, and Apollo's manager jumps over the ropes into the ring.

When Rocky enters the bathroom while Mickey is visiting him, three darts are on the door. After Rocky opens the door the first time, the darts are in a completely different pattern. In the final shot, the door has 2 darts.

In the final fight, just before we see the sign for Round 13, there is a shot of Rocky in a clinch looking fairly unmarked even though the previous rounds had shown him already very bloodied.

When Rocky first runs up the Art Museum steps, there's a shot of a Daily News delivery truck near City Hall. A bundle of newspapers gets tossed out the back and the truck pulls away as the back door is pulled down. Not possible as these trucks were manned by only one person.

For a film shot in Philadelphia, and whose main characters were supposed to be born and bred Philadelphians, Rocky, Paulie, Gazzo, and Mike all spoke with a "Movie Brooklynese" accent. The only person with an authentic "Philly Accent" was the character, Marie, the young girl in front of The Atomic Hogie Shop.

After Rocky's fight against Spider Rico, his payment is winner's share: $65, less $15 for use of locker and corner man, $5 for use of shower and towel, and 7% tax. In the end, he gets a total of $40.55. However, 7% of $65 is $4.55, so subtracting that and the other deductions, he actually should have received $40.45, not $40.55. Spider Rico did receive the correct amount.

Empty seats are visible in close ups of the 2 boxers,

South paw is a baseball term not a boxing term. It's a left handed pitcher because, when built correctly, center field should be on the east side so the batter isn't looking at a setting sun. Therefore first base is south, the direction a left handed pitcher would be facing while in the stretch.

The closing credits list real-life boxing referee Lou Fillipo, who plays the referee in the Championship fight, as "Championship Fight Announcer". Thayer David, who plays the promoter Jergens, was the fight announcer.

This may be an interesting Trivia item, but it is not a Goof; the identified persons played the characters identified, which is the purpose of the credits.

When Adrian and Rocky leave for their date, there is a rose bush in front of the house that has two fresh roses on it and some flowers on the ground in bloom. Since it is late November in Philadelphia and it is obviously cold, this wouldn't be possible.

Actually, there are several varieties of roses and flowers that bloom all the way through December. It is possible that the flowers in front of the house are Christmas Rose Camellias.

At 55 seconds into the first round, Rocky scores a knockdown, and Apollo doesn't rise to his feet anywhere near the count of 10; it's more like 15-18 seconds. Therefore, Rocky wins in the first round.

However, didn't go to a neutral corner for about 10 seconds after Creed hit the canvas. This was critical because the referee cannot start the count until the fighter is in a neutral corner. As it took Creed to the count of 8 seconds to get up off the canvas, had Rocky gone to a neutral corner immediately, Creed would've been counted out and Rocky would've been champion via a 1st Round KO.

Of course, this also presumes that Apollo unconscious and cannot hear the count. Boxers who are knocked down but still able to continue typically will stay down to a count of 8 (or even 9) in order to rest and "clear their head" after taking a solid punch.

After the announcer finishes announcing the beginning of the fight, the microphone rises back up to the ceiling. As it rises, it hits the camera and shakes it.

When Rocky is demonstrating his training technique for the news story, the camera angle on Rocky changes multiple times but there was only one camera present.

During the fight against Apollo, when Rocky gets his eyelid cut open, the man cutting it can be seen squeezing a tube of fake blood onto Rocky's eye.

Paulie is holding onto the turkey leg after he throws the cooked turkey outside. Paulie having just taken the turkey out of the oven, the turkey leg would be too hot to handle, and it would be dripping its juices all over the house in the meat not yet having absorbed the juices so soon after cooking.

During the big fight scene, the police officers on duty are clearly Los Angeles Police Department members (as the scene was shot in LA), not Philadelphia Police Department members.

About a half hour into the film, Rocky is looking at pictures and clippings on the wall, and there is the sound of a steam locomotive coming up to speed, along with the sound of its steam whistle. Diesels had long since supplanted steam in Philadelphia and most of the country in 1976.

On the 2001 Special Edition DVD, the last half of the 1982 United Artists logo fanfare is heard on the 1976 logo. This is due to a plastering error.

At the end of the fight Apollo say there ain't gonna be no rematch and then Rocky says "Don't want one", but his mouth is clearly closed.

During Paulie's drunken argument with Rocky and Adrian, he smashes the lampshade with a baseball bat and then just after that a further smashing sound can be heard before his baseball bat makes contact with anything.

When Rocky is talking to Adrian on Thanksgiving through the door, the camera shot goes to Paulie who is about ten feet away. One of the cameras can be seen to move in the mirror.

During the fight, Steadicam operator Garrett Brown and his assistant are visible at ringside several times in the wide shots. Brown can clearly be seen wearing a black and white stripped top.

In the Morning Run scene, the camera zooms out as Rocky runs down the street. The lighting equipment is visible at the top of the screen, right above the farthest building.

During the walking of Marie from the corner store to her home, the camera rolling can be heard.

Shots of the stedi-cam operator in striped shirt moving around the ring,

Rocky fights Apollo at the Spectrum Stadium in Philadelphia. As Adrian comes out to watch the fight, a Los Angeles police officer is standing behind her in the corridor.

In an early scene, Adrian and Rocky are talking on a street in "South Philadelphia" while an elevated train passes in the background. There are no elevated trains in South Philly.

Rocky wakes up at 4:30am to start his exercise regime,it is December. When we see him out jogging up the steps,the dawn is breaking. The sun should not be coming up until after 7:00am (Unless he ran for 2 & 1/2 hours!)

When Rocky is boxing in the meat-packing plant, he is in an orthodox stance, not southpaw.

Apollo describes "January First... The country's biggest birthday..." July 4th is considered the country's birthday.

Mickey states he's been in this racket for 50 years. Yet he mentions a fight back from 1923, which makes us 52 years already and that wasn't even his first match, otherwise he would have mentioned it. It would be also difficult for guy like Mickey to downplay how long he's been in the boxing business, especially when he' s trying to convince Rocky that he needs a manager. He would rather be either accurate or exaggerate.