Stallone a knockout in battle of mags

Sly Stallone

Sylvester Stallone can keep his magazine Sly on newsstands despite the complaints of an internet magazine with the same name, that a judge suggested was more of a shoe "fetish" publication.

US District Judge Richard Casey said the actor, who found fame as the boxer Rocky in the 1970s, could continue to produce the lifestyle and fitness magazine for middle-aged men even though it carries the same title as the internet magazine. "There is a little difference between shoe fetish and Mr Sylvester Stallone," Casey said.

John Bostany, a lawyer for the internet magazine that brought a lawsuit seeking US$1 million ($1.5 million) in damages, protested the judge's characterisation of the magazine. "My client's magazine is not a fetish mag," he said.