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Nov 20, 2018 · Here are the biggest lessons Rocky learned from it: Don’t frighten him with a big pre-fight spectacle starring James Brown. Drago is like a bear. Best not confuse him with lights and...
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Nov 18, 2022 · As a true patriot, Apollo Creed steps up, and a match is set. The contest dominated by Drago ends with Creed dead in the ring. To avenge the death of his best friend, Rocky decides to fight Drago despite his team’s fears.
Motivated by patriotism and a desire to step back in the ring, former heavyweight champion Apollo Creed challenges Drago to an exhibition fight. Rocky Balboa has reservations about his much larger opponent and about Creed coming out of retirement but agrees to help train Apollo for the match.
It’s a movie, but it does also have an in-universe explanation. Rocky managed to cut Drago badly in the second or third round, which was a major blow to him since he had never been hurt before. It’s the whole “does God bleed” argument. If you hurt him, you make him realize he’s only human and that he can be defeated.
May 25, 2023 · Wanting revenge, Rocky challenges Drago to a fight, which he only accepts on the condition that it takes place in Russia. A grieving Balboa is accompanied by Paulie and Duke, who reveals he...
Rocky Balboa vs Ivan Drago, billed as East vs West, was an unsanctioned, famous boxing match held in Moscow, Russia on Christmas Day. The boxing match was Balboa's attempt to avenge Apollo Creed's death; who died at the hands of Drago in Las Vegas.
Rocky Balboa proudly holds the world heavyweight boxing championship, but a new challenger has stepped forward: Drago, a six-foot-four, 261-pound fighter who has the backing of the Soviet Union.
