HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 13 ... He was a brash competitor who developed into a trainer and trusted friend of his ...

Weathers ended up playing football and graduating from Long Beach Polytechnic High School, in Long Beach, California ... III” and “Rocky IV.” His character died in the ring in the 1984 ...

While Weathers was born in New Orleans and grew up and attended college in California ... to reprise in three subsequent sequels before the character's death in 1985's "Rocky IV." ...