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Sly Stallone is posting on the StalloneZone message board.\u00a0 How this all came about is kind of funny… now.\u00a0 You see before everything was worked out, I actually blocked Sly’s ability to post here even after he had posted a few messages.<\/p>\n
No, I’m not crazy.\u00a0 Let me explain.<\/p>\n
On April 12th a SZ message board member using the screenname “Barney Ross” posted a couple of messages signing off as Sly Stallone.\u00a0 Over the 25 years since I started the StalloneZone this has happened from time to time.\u00a0 Someone will come on the message board and claim to be Sly, one of Sly’s personal friends or business partners.\u00a0 We’ve always blocked these imposters’ posts.<\/p>\n
That’s not to say we haven’t had contact with Sly, Frank, Sage or Kevin King.\u00a0 We have, but they have always made it clear it was them and we verified the info before we posted it.\u00a0 Heck, I was even asked by Sly’s team to run the Official Rocky Balboa<\/em> Movie Blog and I gladly did that.<\/p>\n But back to April 12th…<\/p>\n After seeing the posts, I private messaged “Barney Ross” and asked him to not sign off as if he was Sylvester Stallone.\u00a0 I then see him post again signing off as S. Stallone.\u00a0 So I checked his profile.\u00a0 “Barney Ross” had been a member for over a decade and never posted.\u00a0 There were a few other reasons that made me think he was an imposter.\u00a0 I sent him another message to not sign off as if he was Sylvester Stallone\u00a0 or he would be blocked from posting.\u00a0 “Barney Ross” then posted a public message saying, that he really was S. Stallone and I could ask him anything.”\u00a0 At that point, I was like, “I’ve been down this road before” and blocked him from posting.<\/p>\n