Rocky Balboa (The Italian Stallion) Multi-Cache
Rocky Balboa (The Italian Stallion)
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Robert "Rocky" Balboa was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 6, 1945 (one year before Sylvester Stallone's actual birth date). He was the only child in a Roman Catholic Italian-American family. The surname Balboa/Valboa (roughly meaning "beautiful valley") originates from a Galician-speaking town in Northwestern Spain, so it is likely he had some Iberian ancestry as well. When Rocky is spoken to by his priest, Father Carmine, it is apparent that he understands Italian very well, including a scene in which he translates for Tommy Gunn; however, it is undetermined how well he actually speaks the language as his responses are always in English.
During the scene in which Rocky takes Adrianna "Adrian" Pennino skating on Thanksgiving, he tells her, "Yeah – My ol' man, who was never the sharpest, told me – I weren't born with much brain, so I better use my body." This encouraged him to take up boxing. He trained very hard so he could grow up to be like his idol Rocky Marciano. Unable to live on the small pay of club fights, and being unable to find work anywhere else, Rocky got a job as a collector for Tony Gazzo, the local loan shark, just to make ends meet. By late 1975, Rocky had fought in 64 fights, winning 44 (38 KO'S) and losing 20. Rocky was proud that he never had his nose broken in a professional fight. His nickname is "The Italian Stallion", spawning from his Italian-American heritage.
These caches are in order from what I consider to be Rocky's toughest opponents in order from easiest to toughest. This is up for debate in the logs.
At each of the virtual stages you will find a Benchmark. Each Benchmark represents one of the fighters you have battled: Thunderlips, Apollo Creed, Clubber Lang, and Ivan Drago. Make sure to search for these benchmarks while you are visiting the other caches in this series so you do not have to backtrack. The Benchmarks are located at the Clubber Lang cache, Ivan Drago cache, and the other two are at the peak of Mt. Saint Helena.
The Final is located at: N 38 AG.NEA W 122 JB.CAO
Benchmark 1: ABCD is the number after Crabtree LS
Benchmark 2: EFG is the fine for disturbing the Benchmark
Benchmark 3: HIJK is the year of placement
Benchmark 4: LMNO is the year of placement
Benchmark 3 & 4 are very close to each other and I am not 100% sure which one is which. Benchmark 4 (LMNO) is the Benchmark with the lower of the two dates.
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Additional Hints
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