The character wasn’t exactly doing so well in the first Creed, having been diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma and going through chemotherapy, so it wouldn’t necessarily be the most surprising thing in the world.
Of course, we can’t help but notice something missing from Sylvester Stallone’s announcement regarding Creed 2.
In the caption he mentions that he will be both directing and producing the feature, but fails to mention whether or not he will be reprising his role as Rocky Balboa.
That being said, those hashtags could be telling us a different story, and it would be kind of crazy for Stallone to do that at this point considering he just earned an Academy Award nomination for his last performance.