Rocky using a hunks of meat as a punching bag might be one of the more iconic Rocky images, but here, it is nothing more than that: Rocky punching slabs of meat.
But true to the title, Vaughn can brawl, and it's refreshing to see him presented not as some gym - hard specimen, but as a Robert Mitchum-esque slabofmeat whose main defensive move seems to be «take the punch full to the face.»