Sports Episodes

Explore Matinee Heroes sports movie episodes featuring inspiring underdogs, legendary rivalries, memorable performances, recasting debates, and stories of triumph on and off the field.

Rocky

Rocky Balboa is a struggling Philadelphia boxer who is chosen to take on the reigning world heavyweight champion, Apollo Creed...The Champ touts the fight as a chance for a 'nobody' to become a 'somebody' and so he can easily win…

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MIRACLE

Determined coach, Herb Brooks, had an impossible dream – beat the seemingly unbeatable Soviets at their own game. Starting with a handpicked group of undisciplined kids, Brooks coached them to play like they never played before, and turned them into…

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Creed

Adonis Johnson, son of deceased world heavyweight champion Apollo Creed, has boxing in his blood. Looking to win his own title, Adonis heads to Philadelphia and convinces his father’s rival-turned-friend, Rocky Balboa, to train him – even as Rocky battles…

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