Has there ever been a more convincing actor playing a boxer? Daniel Day Lewis and Robert De Niro of course were excellent as La Motta and Flynn and we've all got our favourites. But this was next level. The American dream, the heavyweight champion of the whole World and Weathers played it perfectly. The first two were genuinely brilliant movies and we all fell in love with Rocky of course. But he needed Creed to make that happen and he needed Weathers to be Creed. The way he moved, the way he could throw a punch, the way he could talk. It was as authentic as it gets.

RIP Champ