: a contest or fight between players, teams, etc., who dislike each other The race had turned into a grudge match between the two teams.

Who does Rocky fight in the Grudge Match?

The surprise in Grudge Match, the not-quite-a-comedy that pits Rocky Balboa against Raging Bull, isn't that it has the chutzpah to posit a universe in which Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro have, since the early '80s, been equally matched rivals. The surprise is in how easily audiences will buy it.

How old was Stallone in Grudge Match?

Nonetheless, the 70-year-old actor is onscreen squeezing a few more dollars out of our "Raging Bull" memories in "Grudge Match," a wild bit of stunt casting that sends him, as an elderly boxer, back into the ring to battle long-time rival Sylvester Stallone, 67.