Sylvester Stallone ist bekennender Aficionado. In «Rocky Balboa«, der Fortsetzung seiner Rocky-Filmreihe (ab 8. Februar in den Kinos), werden auch Zigarren ungewohnt gut in Szene gesetzt. Cigar Aficionado Online schreibt dazu im Artikel «Rocky Balboa: An Elegy for Cigars and Heavyweight Champs«:

(…) Besides the boxing segments in Rocky Balboa, a number of scenes have cigars, which got us thinking about the movie in a whole different way. Boxing and cigars have gone together for at least as long as people have been photographing the sport. But despite all the black-and-white vintage stills of smoky cigar clubs and stogie-chomping managers, very few venues are left, if any, where one can smoke a cigar and watch a fight. Certainly no high-profile ones, or at least none that we know of. When was the last time you saw Don King smoking a ringside cigar? Even boxing’s Beelzebub has to follow the rules.

Nicht nur, dass im Film selber geraucht wird, für die Premiere des Films sei in Philadelphia interimistisch sogar das Rauchverbot gelockert worden. Man feierte Rocky’s Comeback wie in den guten alten Boxsport-Zeiten: Mit Zigarren.

(Bildquelle: Cigar Aficionado Online)