The fight between Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren) and Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) in Rocky IV is one of the franchise’s best, but it somehow got even better 39 years after the movie’s premiere. Apollo Creed’s fight with Ivan Drago is one of the best scenes of Rocky IV, and one of the best fights in the entire trilogy. It’s packed with emotional moments, unexpected twists, and the jaw-dropping death of Creed. It’s quite nearly a perfect fight in terms of its actual action and its narrative impact, but it somehow got even better decades later.

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