Spoilery new 'Creed' trailer rises up to the challenge of its rivals

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Hillary Busis
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Don't want to know anything major about the plot of Creed, Ryan Coogler's highly anticipated Rocky spinoff?

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If so, you should resist the urge to press "play" on the video above. The film's second trailer digs a lot deeper than Trailer #1, giving a bit more background on the relationship between Adonis Johnson (Michael B. Jordan) -- a.k.a. the son of Apollo Creed -- and Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone, but you knew that), introducing new characters like Adonis's mother Mary Anne (the regal Phylicia Rashad) and boxer "Pretty" Ricky Conlan (real-life boxer Tony Bellew), and dropping a major bomb: The Italian Stallion is seriously ill.

Will Adonis embrace his past and learn to fight like the father he never knew? Will Rocky survive his franchise's seventh installment? Will "Gonna Fly Now" figure prominently in any of the movie's inevitable training montages?

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