There are films that remain in history. One of them is undoubtedly Rocky IV. The famous film by New Year’s Eve Stallone has enjoyed unprecedented success over time. What is surprising, however, are some background stories that have never come to light. Today we are revealing one that will surely amaze you.
Rocky IV, the plot and the success
You will certainly remember the plot of this episode of the saga. As always, two major global giants compete: from one the Soviet Union on one side and America on the other. The Soviet Union also wants to prove its superiority in boxing. And that’s why the reigning champion, more specifically Rocky, finds himself in the sights of Ivan Drago, a muscular Russian with an iron gaze.
Ivan is obviously not new to the industry, he is an Olympic champion. Rocky Balboa, As the reigning world heavyweight champion, he can only be his best challenger.
However, it is the former heavyweight champion who over time became a close friend of Rocky, Apollo Creed, who takes on the challenge of the Soviet Union. After a five-year retirement from the scene, the former champion can’t wait to get on the field and show off his skills.
Rocky is anything but naive, he knows that Drago is not easy to defeat, so he warns his friend and advises him not to accept the challenge.
However, Apollo plans to seize the moment to return to the ring in style. Rocky reluctantly agrees to help him in the corner during the game, which was staged as a friendly.
Apollo immediately appears as strong and radiant as ever and seems to have an excellent chance of surpassing Ivan.
The Soviet immediately shows that he wants to demonstrate his physical strength without sparing himself, which gets the former champion into big trouble: Apollo comes out so badly injured that Rocky demands he surrender to avoid the worst impede. However, Apollo does not accept that he is losing to Ivan and after a volley from very strong punches from Drago In the end he takes his last breath in his friend’s arms.
Rocky IV: Revenge and the Unimaginable Backstory
Only in honor of Apollo does Rocky agree to fight Drago. However, the boxing association warns – due to tensions between the two countries – that the title of best boxer will not be awarded to any of the winners. The meeting takes place in Mosce on a special day, Christmas.
None of them would have made a cent from the meeting, but this one a Rocky doesn’t care. The intention is always to avenge the friend killed in the ring. However, the protagonist only leaves with his trainer and his brother-in-law, leaving his son Robert and his wife Adriana at home. The latter immediately showed that she was very much against his choice.
The woman feared that Rocky would suffer the same fate as his friend Drago.
Rocky is forced to train haphazardly and radiate himself by any means possible, while Drago can count on cutting-edge tools and, of course, medications to make him even stronger. Adriana But he doesn’t feel like leaving his Rocky alone, so he flies to Russia and stays by his side until the end. In the match, Drago immediately attacks his opponent violently and Rocky will be at a clear disadvantage.
However, the stallion is very resilient and wants to tire him out as much as possible before showing his talent in the ring. With an unexpected blow from the Soviet, he even manages to injure the muscle mass of one eyebrow.
As a result, the Soviet begins to be less courageous and confident, especially when the champion – despite knocking Rocly unconscious several times – keeps getting back up. At the end Rocky shows his full strength and wins over Drago.
The speech he gives after the victory is really very nice: the boxer hopes that the two peoples will soon stop fighting each other. Even the Russian Prime Minister applauds him and dresses in the American flag. However, no one noticed what was happening on set. Here’s what recently came out as a movie.
The backstory came out after years in the fourth episode of the saga
With the role of Rocky, Sylvester Stallone gave birth a figure who went down in the history of international cinema and which influenced many subsequent films.
In fact, there are many films influenced by his character. For this reason, the film became a saga. The fans were eagerly waiting for the next episode. At first, the director wasn’t even convinced to give Stallone the role of the good boy who has a passion for boxing. Given the subsequent success of the saga, he would certainly have made a very serious mistake. No one knows about any backstory that happened on the set of Rocky IV.
It seems that the protagonist is Silvester Stallone his opponent asked bluntly, played by Dolph Lundgren, to give him real punches on set to make everything more realistic. Apparently, these punches caused real trauma to Stallone’s face and body. One day during filming you even had to go to the hospital after Silvester suffered a blow to the abdomen.
Even the most die-hard fans of the saga were unaware of this backstory. A gem that cinema lovers can present together with friends and film and series lovers.