Short Round daringly cut off his own chains and was pursued through the mines to the temple""s sacrificial pit, where he purposely burned Indy with a fiery torch thrust painfully into his side, causing him to "wake up" from the crippling "black sleep" spell - and save Willie at the last minute from being roasted alive.She comes up to him, remembering him from Central High School where she is a senior and he was a recent graduate.At the bar, Rocky watched the evening sportscast on television - an interview with the reigning World Heavyweight boxing champ - a flamboyant, arrogant black fighter (Muhammed Ali-inspired) named Apollo Creed (football star Carl Weathers), about an upcoming, much-publicized ""Bicentennial Fight"" between Creed and Mac Lee Green at the Spectrum.Otherwise, it""s like swimming in an empty swimming pool." Charles is shocked and embarrassed as he wins $500 from the Colonel and roughly $100 from Jean by the end of the evening.