Boxing Hall Of Fame: It's Ridiculous To Put Rocky In

Boxing, or at least a cadre of its pugilistic writers, is putting Sylvester Stallone in its Hall of Fame for making the Rocky movies. 

Can Rambo's entry into the Special Forces Hall of Fame be far behind?

The line between fact and fiction, reality and Hollywood, has become an increasingly thin one in American society.

But those scars on Carmen Basilio's old mug are real, and not from botox.

Thomas Hearns and Marvin Hagler hit each other for real.

Rocky is a celluloid hero, not a ring hero. 

Really, since Rocky is ready for boxing's hallowed halls, what other fictional boxing beasts eagerly await entry?

What about Apollo Creed?

Can Clubber Lang get a bust beside Sonny Liston?

Will Ivan Drago beat Wladimir Klitschko to the Hall?

Philadelphia has statue of a fictional boxer, Rocky, but not one for Joe Frazier, who has made the City of Brotherly Love his home for decades.

But back to the Boxing Hall's bizarre choices. 

Does Will Smith go in for Ali, or doesn't he count because Ali is already in?

What about Bobby DeNiro's Oscar winning performance as Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull? Does that get DeNiro a bronze to go with his Oscar gold?

Can The Dude get in?

Jeff Bridges starred in John Huston's underrated boxing flick Fat City—does that entitle him to stand along side Jack Dempsey and Sugar Ray Robinson in the Hall?

Fat City is fictional, but so is Rocky, so why not drop The Dude in?

The Professional, a long buried great boxing book by W.C. Heinz, had memorable characters in Eddie Brown and Doc Carroll—do they make it in, finally?

Ernest Hemingway, a great boxing fan, said The Professional was the only good boxing book he ever read, but what about Papa's doomed pug Ole Anderson from The Killers?

Ole Anderson still awaits his fate, so perhaps the Hall can save him?

Ben Grimm, The Fantastic Four's The Thing, was a boxer, astronaut, scientist, marine test pilot and super hero. Shouldn't he, of all fictional creatures, have a shot at boxing's Hall if figments of the imagination are filing in?  

What about Humphrey Bogart battling boxing's never-ending evils in his last role, The Harder They Fall?

Shouldn't Sam Spade get in if Sylvester Stallone can?

Russell Crowe was The Cinderella Man. Can he make the Hall?

Can The Duke still get in for The Quiet Man?

What about Marlon Brando?

On The Waterfront was a better movie than Rocky and "I coulda' been a contender" an all-time boxing movie line.  

Errol Flynn once played Gentlemen Jim Corbett. Is the long-dead swashbuckler, at long last, in like Flynn at the Boxing Hall of Fame?

Where does it stop?

Either way, it's great news for Roy Hobbs, who has been patiently awaiting his entry into the Baseball Hall of Fame since the Roaring 20s.