1974年,当史泰龙离家去好莱坞谋生时,他还是个落魄青年。此前,他是纽约的失业演员,现在仅是个卖不出脚本的剧作家。一年中他以各种笔名推出50余万字,但总是没有买主。一次,两位电影制片人看了他所写的《邪恶的厨房》脚本后觉得,倘若史泰龙能写出与之相类似的另一个脚本的话,将会使他们惊奇无比。打赌之下史泰龙就开始撰写了。这个脚本的写作临近完工时,史泰龙在闭路电视中收看到1975年阿里的一场拳击比赛实况转播。阿里的对手是绳圈方寸中唯一能与阿里势均力敌的白人拳手,他曾击倒过阿里。这场拳斗终结于第15局结束前17秒,阿里的对手被击败,他虽血流满面但并未屈服。 When Stallone left for Hollywood in 1974 to make a living, he was an abjection. Previously, he was a jobless actor in New York and is now just a playwright who can not sell scripts. During the year he launched more than 500,000 words under various pen names, but there was always no buyer. Once, the two filmmakers looked at his “evil kitchen” script and thought that if Stallone could write a script similar to that, it would surprise them. Stallone began to write under the bet. When the script was written near completion, Stallone watched a boxing match from Ali in 1975 on CCTV. Ali’s rival is the only white boxer in the square of the ring that can match Ali, who has knocked out Ali. The boxing ended in the first 15 seconds before the end of the first 17 seconds, Ali’s opponent was defeated, though he was full of blood but did not give in.