14 Facts About Mickey Goldmill

Mickey Goldmill is a fictional character created by Sylvester Stallone and portrayed by Burgess Meredith in the Rocky film series.

Goldman trained Marciano in many ways similar to how Goldmill trained Balboa, such as tying their ankles together with string to teach them to spread their feet at the appropriate width.

Mickey Goldmill boxed professionally from 1922 until 1947 and achieved great athletic success but never gained any measure of fame or material success.

Mickey Goldmill recalled that he once knocked his opponent, Ginny Russell, out of the ring the same day that Luis Firpo did the same to Jack Dempsey: September 14,1923.

Mickey Goldmill claimed that the reason his victory did not garner any media attention was that he did not have a manager, while Dempsey did.

Mickey Goldmill retired in 1947, with a record of 72 wins, and 1 loss.

Deep down Mickey Goldmill wants him to fulfill his great potential.

Mickey Goldmill tells him that he will have to do it alone if he decides to have a match against Clubber, later admitting that all of his challengers were hand-picked, "good fighters" but not "killers" like Clubber.

Shortly before the match, Rocky and Clubber's entourages erupt into a pandemonium free-for-all backstage; Mickey Goldmill, trying to break it up, is shoved against a wall by Clubber, and goes into cardiac arrest.

Rocky, still distraught over Mickey Goldmill's condition, is not fully focused on the match, is quickly overpowered and takes a merciless beating from his opponent.

Mickey Goldmill is interred in a Jewish mausoleum outside of Philadelphia, the private service attended by Rocky, his wife Adrian, his brother-in-law Paulie and Goldmill's longtime friend and cornerman Al Silvani.

Mickey Goldmill gives Rocky a cufflink that belonged to Rocky Marciano as a gesture of gratitude for giving him newfound purpose and promises he'll always be with him when he dies and, should Rocky get hurt, use his words to motivate himself to get back up.

When Rocky gets into a street fight with his former protege Tommy Gunn he hallucinates Mickey Goldmill telling him to get up motivating Rocky to win the fight against Tommy.

Mickey Goldmill appears in the video games Rocky, Rocky Legends and the mobile game ROCKY, offering advice to the player in between rounds.