Why they celebrate at the end of the final fight?
They didn't win.
Zeus is still World Champion and All the bets for Zeus to win the fight won.
Just for the glory? It doesn't make any sense. Nothing really changed from before.
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Compare how they were at the start of the movie. Fighting in run down gyms, losing. Their status at the end is quantum leap for them.
shareYes. For glory. What they accomplished was extraordinary.
shareThere is a reason Farra was pissed in the end, sure they won but the fight exposed them and showed that Zeus is vulnerable. Farra also was shown as corrupt, rigging the fights in her favor.
shareThey never thought they would get that far. Maybe.
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Same as the original "Rocky"
The hero didn't win, but he went further than anyone thought he could
And like the Matheson short story and Twilight Zone episode that inspired this film, the message is "it's the fighter not the tech that wins the fight"