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2023 Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame - Round 1

Spider Rico

TV Show/Movie Appeared: Rocky (1976)
Rocky Balboa (2006)
Actor/Actress: Pedro Lovell
Why you should vote:: He is a member of the Rocky family; arguably the best sports franchise in film.
Why you should not vote:: He had a small role, and was relatively interchangeable.
The first opponent we ever see of our first Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame inductee, Rocky Balboa, is the Puerto Rican pugilist, Spider Rico, a Philadelphia based club fighter who lost a rough encounter with the Italian Stallion in the film’s opening minutes. By the looks of Rico, he was in the twilight of his career and was a “bum” according to Mickey Goldmill. We however loved his brief cameo in Rocky Balboa eating at Adrain’s Restaurant.