It was not about boxing

With It was not about boxing, Laura Regouby offers an original reading of the Rocky saga as a true matrix for personal, managerial, and existential transformation. Far from reducing Rocky to a boxing film, the book deciphers the universal power of a character who speaks to the body, courage, and that part of us that knows it can still get back up.

Drawing on Sylvester Stallone’s journey, the genesis of the film, and the mythological structure of the "hero’s journey", the author shows why Rocky has resonated so deeply with audiences for several generations. This modest, imperfect, battered, yet standing hero becomes a mirror: he does not always win against the other; he first wins against abandonment, doubt, and resignation.

With a background combining the humanities, anthropology, entrepreneurship, and management, Laura Regouby transposes this reading into a method accessible to the general public. Her approach connects cinema, leadership, rituals, human behavior, and taking action, in continuity with her research on the ethology of power and managerial dynamics.