I see Mayweather winning imperiously by a unanimous decision or even a stoppage and subsequently heading on to equal, or even beat, Rocky Marciano's 60-year-old record of 49 successive world victories.
Instrumentation consists of a "pounding" drum beat and "rocky" guitars.
Of! The! World!, the villains, the boxing scenes, the breathless moments when Rocky gets knocked down and you don't know whether he's going to get up – surely he'll get up, he has to, that blood-rush sound as the camera tilts and he spins woozy on the canvas – and then the crowd rushes back and yes, yes, single glove on the top rope, beat the count, Rocky has made it, Rocky has won.
The fact that the original "Rocky" beat "Taxi Driver" for Best Picture, forty years ago, is one of the many Oscar absurdities, but it's a predictable one — Martin Scorsese's early masterwork is more or less hopeless, certainly compared to Stallone's modern Horatio Alger legend.
For more information on taking a beating just watch Rocky 1 -7.
WHITE SOX 10, INDIANS 7: Ray Durham matched career highs with four hits and four runs batted in and the rookie Rocky Biddle beat Cleveland again as visiting Chicago kept its slim playoff hopes alive.
E-Commerce Report [C2.] Canadian Banks Beat Expectations Despite a rocky third quarter, most Canadian banks reported earnings that topped analysts' expectations, although they did not match the results of recent years.
Seles reached the final after beating Paola Suarez in a rocky three-set match Friday.
Finally, notice how the physical landscape ultimately gives way to the metaphorical: "Whose rocky shores beats back the envious siege / Of watery Neptune, is now bound with shame, / With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds" 63-644).
