In fact, it inspired the actor to endure a few punches more in Creed II.
Michael B. Jordan played the devastating role of real-life police brutality victim Oscar Grant in Fruitvale Station, his first project with writer/director Ryan Coogler, who would later put the actor through a more literally painful experience on the set of Creed.
As seen in this behind-the-scenes footage, the actor received a genuine KO while filming the 2015 Rocky spin-off, which, according his onscreen boxing mentor Sylvester Stallone, was essentially Jordan’s rite-of-passage into the franchise, having suffered the same injury every other time he played the Italian Stallion.