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Robert Balboa was born as the only child to a Roman Catholic Italian-American family. He took up boxing because he wasn't all that smart. He wanted to be like his idol, Rocky Marciano. Because of his Italian-American heritage, he was nicknamed "The Italian Stallion".

His brief recruitmen,t publicity and travel visa were tied into his match against Ivan Drago, where in addition to site security the GIJoe team also aided in keeping the site civil along side the October Guard.