Carl ‘Apollo Creed’ Weathers Will be at FANEXPO ST. LOUIS May 13-15th at America’s Center

“Apollo Creed vs. the Italian Stallion. Sounds like a damn monster movie.”

FAN EXPO St. Louis is the ultimate go-to event for sci-fi, horror, anime, and gaming event in St. Louis that attracts hundreds of thousands of people to America’s Center (701 Convention Plaza, St. Louis, MO 63101). There will be plenty of celebrity guests at FAN EXPO ST. LOUIS (Formerly known as COMIC-CON) May 13-15th including The Shat (!) but the name that excited us most here at WAMG was the legendary star Carl Weathers who will be there all three days. Keep checking back here at We Are Movie Geeks for more info about FANEXPO ST. LOUIS and check check out the event’s site HERE.

Carl Weathers is an actor, television director and former professional football player. He is known for his roles as boxer Apollo Creed in the first four Rocky films (1976–85), George Dillon in Predator (1987), Action Jackson in Action Jackson (1988), and Chubbs Peterson in Happy Gilmore (1996) and in Little Nicky (2000), and Combat Carl in the Toy Story franchise. He also portrayed Det. Beaudreaux in the television series Street Justice (1991–93) and a fictionalized version of himself in the comedy series Arrested Development (2003–19), and voiced Omnitraxus Prime in Star vs. the Forces of Evil (2017–19). He has a recurring role as Greef Karga in the Star Wars series The Mandalorian (2019–).

As a football player, Weathers played from 1970 to 1971 for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League and from 1971 to 1973 for the B.C. Lions of the Canadian Football League.