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Rocky III

“The greatest challenge.”

19821h 39m★ 6.9

Following Rocky Balboa's intense battle with his most powerful adversary yet – the ferocious Clubber Lang – Rocky joins forces with former rival Apollo Creed in an effort to get back his fighting spirit.

IMDB
Share:
6.9/10
Rating
4,729
Votes
$17.0M
Budget
$125.1M
Revenue

In the Series

How Rocky III compares

Every figure below is calculated across the whole of Rocky, not taken from this film’s own record.

#4 of 6
Rank in the series by rating

Rocky III (1982) ranks 4th of the 6 rated films in the Rocky series, at 6.9/10 on TMDB against a series average of 7.0/10.

3 years
Wait since the previous film

It arrived 3 years after Rocky II (1979).

15%
Share of the series audience

Its 4,729 TMDB ratings are 15% of the 31,553 cast across the series.

Computed by Movies in Order from The Movie Database (TMDB) collection data for Rocky, comparing all 6 released films in the series. Last recalculated November 2026.

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