Rare Photos of the Lost Scenes From John G Avildsen’s 1976 Mega Hit “Rocky”

There are a few deleted scenes from John G Avildsen's 1976 mega hit Rocky that have never seen the light of day.

In the documentary Rocky: An American Hero, released in conjunction with Rocky V, Sylvester Stallone says that when they tried to find some outtake footage from Rocky to use in Rocky V, they found out that all the outtake footage from Rocky is gone, literally it was incinerated sometime in the 1980s.

In the original screenplay, there was a subplot threaded throughout the first two thirds of the film involving a character named Dipper Brown. Some of this made it to the final cut of the film, some of it didn’t.

Basically, this subplot revolves around Dipper being “a real contender” vs. Rocky being a “bum”. Dipper is jealous when Rocky is given the chance to fight Apollo Creed.

We first hear about Dipper when Rocky visits the gym for the first time in the film and finds his locker taken over by Dipper.