As the two begin dating, she gives Rocky a dog from the shop that he's admired; a bull mastiff named Butkus.
An enraged and drunken Paulie physically threatens her and Rocky with a sawed-off baseball bat, only for Adrian to stand up for herself.
At the end of the match, Rocky calls out for her and Adrian rushes toward the ring, losing her hat along the way.
After a failed attempt to appear in commercials to capitalize on his newfound fame, Rocky struggles to look for other jobs, eventually prompting him to sell his Pontiac to Paulie.
Watching the fight on television, she becomes shocked during the final round as both Rocky and Apollo hit the floor.
Rocky, Adrian and Mickey attend the unveiling of a bronze statue in honor of the "Italian Stallion" at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Adrian tags along with Rocky and Paulie as they travel to Los Angeles to train with Apollo Creed for a rematch.
Noticing that her husband is not giving his complete focus, Adrian confronts Rocky on the Santa Monica Beach.
In the fourth film, Adrian and Rocky are visited by Apollo Creed, who has plans to have an exhibition match against a Russian Soviet Union boxer, Ivan Drago.
Weeks after Rocky leaves with Paulie and Tony "Duke" Evers to Russia to train, Adrian surprises him there, and reassures that she will always be with him, no matter what.
Upon their return to the United States, they reunite with their son, Robert, and hold a subsequent press conference.
But, Rocky is interrupted by fight promoter, George Washington Duke, in hopes of creating another lucrative match.
Settling back home, Rocky overhears her and Paulie arguing about a dramatic life-changing situation.
In addition, the accountant had failed to pay Rocky's taxes over the past six years, and the mansion has been mortgaged by $400,000.
Rocky tells Adrian that he wants to fight again to recoup their assets, but she requests that he should be tested with a physician's approval firsthand.
The doctor performs computer-simulated tests, confirming that Rocky is diagnosed with a form of brain damage, and the effects are permanent and irreversible, making it impossible for him to be licensed to box in any state.
She becomes skeptical when Rocky invites a young ruffian boxer from Oklahoma, Tommy "the Machine" Gunn, to stay with them.
As Tommy and Rocky engage in a street fight, she is notified by Robert, and the two make their way to the scene.
In the years since, Rocky, trying to break out of his bankruptcy, manages to open a small Italian restaurant, named after her.
The walls of the restaurant showcase pictures of Adrian, Italian heritage, as well as Rocky's sports memorabilia, such as ringside photographs, clippings from newspapers, paintings, and his championship belts.
Adrian doesn't physically appear in Creed, having previously died from ovarian cancer, but photos of her are seen around Rocky's restaurant (which was named after her).
In Creed II, Rocky again visits Adrian and Paulie's graves and admits that he has been unable to bring himself to call his son Robert, who had moved to Vancouver years earlier.