Creed III: Michael B. Jordan Discusses Which Rocky Staple Was the Most Difficult to Film

On March 3, Michael B. Jordan returns as Adonis “Donnie” Creed in his directorial debut, Creed III. Jordan first took on the role of the legacy boxer, and mentee of Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky Balboa, in Ryan Coogler’s spinoff film, Creed, and has since gone on to star in the sequel. From stealing scenes opposite the late, great Chadwick Boseman in Black Panther to reuniting with Coogler in the ring for the Creed series, Jordan takes the helm as both star and director for the series’ threequel and proves to be “a breath of fresh air for the Rocky/Creed universe,” according to Collider’s Ross Bonaime. Now reigning as the undisputed heavyweight champion, Donnie has retired to training future boxers at the Delphi Gym. He’s enjoying life as a husband to wife Bianca (Thompson) and a father to their daughter, Amara (Mila Davis-Kent), in their sprawling L.A. home, when a friend of his past, Damian “Dame” Anderson (Majors) is released from prison. Having had his own future cut short too young, Dame comes lookin