Favourite Rocky Opponent

[Tony Moanero]

Ivan Drago. I love the bit at the end of Rocky IV, when Rocky knocks Drago's head off and lashes it into the crowd, even though it was obvious from the off that Drago was really a robot.

[cloggypop]

Tony knows

[Mook]

Haha

 

The answer is of course Apollo. 

 

"I thought you said be cool?"

 

"That was Cool!" 

 

I love the bit in Rocky II where Apollo's wife gives him a long heartfelt speech about how what the public think doesn't matter as her & his family will always love him, he pauses for a second & then turns round tells his manager to get on the phone to get the fight sorted, completely disregarding everything she's just said, sheer genius.

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

Ivan Drago. I love the bit at the end of Rocky IV, when Rocky knocks Drago's head off and lashes it into the crowd, even though it was obvious from the off that Drago was really a robot.

 

Hahahahahaha

[Tony Moanero]

I love this poster.

 

[Section_31]

Apparently in the original script for Rocky Balboa Rocky was going to visit Drago in hospital where he was dying of AIDS (seriously) due to steroid abuse, and on the way out says to the nurse 'if he dies, he dies'.

 

Clubber was going to be a pundit too. 

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479143/trivia

[lifetime fan]

Apparently in the original script for Rocky Balboa Rocky was going to visit Drago in hospital where he was dying of AIDS (seriously) due to steroid abuse, and on the way out says to the nurse 'if he dies, he dies'.

 

Clubber was going to be a pundit too. 

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479143/trivia

 

 

That would have been fucking ace.

[Section_31]

That would have been fucking ace.

I could never figure out why he was in an American hospital though. Maybe he snook aboard the Red October.

[Harry Squatter]

Watched Rocky 4 a few weeks back. There's a scene in the theatrical trailer where Rocky meets the American Boxing Association. They refuse to section his fight with Drago telling him he's out on his own. Weirdly it's cut from the film itself.

[Harry Squatter]

I voted Clubber Lang. The first Rocky film I watched was 3 then 4 as I was too young when the first 2 came out. So I always see Apollo as Rocky's friend rather than enemy.

 

I like the way Clubber is allowed to punch people on the floor and shove referees everywhere in the build up fights to his fight with Rocky.

[KMD7]

Apollo all the way for me.  The scene with Joe Frazier always cracks me up

 

[littletedwest]

Loved the sound effects when clubber missed a punch.

 

When I go jogging I have the soundtrack playing on my phone without earphones. Nothing like jogging past some old woman with "going the distance" playing as her dogs struggling to take a shit

[Bjornebye]

Loved the sound effects when clubber missed a punch.

 

When I go jogging I have the soundtrack playing on my phone without earphones. Nothing like jogging past some old woman with "going the distance" playing as her dogs struggling to take a shit

Hahaha. If I.have.a.hot curry I always blast out hearts on fire but replace hearts for arse.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Clearly, the best of Rocky's opponents was Fearless Leader.

 

[lifetime fan]

Loved the sound effects when clubber missed a punch.

 

When I go jogging I have the soundtrack playing on my phone without earphones. Nothing like jogging past some old woman with "going the distance" playing as her dogs struggling to take a shit

 

 

Doing this 30 day plank challenge at the moment and put it on each time.

[General Dryness]

Ivan Drago. I love the bit at the end of Rocky IV, when Rocky knocks Drago's head off and lashes it into the crowd, even though it was obvious from the off that Drago was really a robot.

Best bit of the whole series that Tone. Can't believe you fell asleep and missed it all them years ago.

[Stickman]

Gotta be Duran in Rocky II...

 

If only Roberto had moved like this against Sugar Ray in their rematch

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFG6Do4IcuQ

[Ginny]

Clubber Lang or drago innit

[stringvest]

Duncan Norvelle in one of the straight-to-video Rocky films.  Rocky 15 I think it was.  I think most of them went straight to video after 7.  

[KMD7]

http://www.socceronsunday.com/article/keane-picks-top-5-comebacks/

 

Roy Keane Picks The 5 Greatest Ever Comebacks

5. Barcelona vs PSG (2017)

All credit to Barcelona, winning 6 – 1 to qualify for the Champions League Quarter-finals is outstanding. But questions have to be asked of the bottling shitebags in white. I hear the PSG players were physically attacked by fans at Bourget Airport. Ordinarily I don’t condone violence, but hanging would be too good for this particular gang of frogs-leg eating pox bottles

 

4. Rocky vs Thunderlips (1982)

Rocky showed great courage to retain his WBC World Championship belt when he fought mandatory challenger Thunderlips in 1982. I don’t like to criticise referees, but I felt Tony Patterson was poor on the night. At one point Thunderlips picked Rocky up over his head and flung him out of the ring. He could have been killed, but Patterson didn’t even deduct a point. Rocky eventually gritted out a points win, and Thunderlips went on to carve out a career for himself in wresting under the name André the Giant

 

3. Rocky vs Clubber Lang (1982)

I’ve gone with the boy Rocky again, and his epic rematch with fearsome bruiser Clubber Lang (an uncle of Country singer KD Lang). The Italian Stalion’s trainer and Alex Ferguson-lookalike Mickey Goldwill died 5 minutes before the first bout, which may have been a factor in the disturbing beating Rocky received. Personally, I think the fight should have been cancelled out of respect for Mickey’s decaying carcass backstage. The pattern of the rematch looked similar early doors, but a turning point came when ringside mics picked up Rocky declaring ‘you ain’t so bad’ over and over to Lang. What followed, was a disturbing beating for both fighters. Rocky eventually earned the KO, but everybody involved with the fight should have been thrown in jail for reckless endangerment

2. Rocky vs Apollo Creed (1979)

It’s hard to look past the boy Rocky again, and his epic rematch with longtime champion Apollo Creed — a classic bout of boxer vs brawler. At this early point of his career, Rocky was already showing the defensive holes in his game that Apollo and others would exploit. Indeed, to this day Rocky is the only World Champion on record to have never blocked a punch. Rocky himself denies this. “Why block with my hands when I can block with my brain?” he famously told Michael Parkinson in 1984. And the style did bear fruit. Apollo was unable to inflict enough brain damage on The Italian Stallion before himself being pummelled almost to death. Another highly disturbing bout that should have seen everybody involved jailed

 

1. Rocky vs Ivan Drago (1985)

I’ve had to go with the boy Rocky again. Peter Schmeichel-lookalike and steroid-guzzling giant pile of blonde shite Ivan Drago went into his bout with Balboa as a heavy favourite, having beaten former champion and then-Rocky trainer Apollo Creed to death in front of his own family a few months earlier. I don’t like to criticise referees, but I felt Pat Murphy, the referee during the Drago vs Creed fight, was poor on the night. So when Murphy was also handed the Rocky vs Drago fight, I was worried. With good reason it turned out, as Drago handed a highly disturbing beating to The Italian Stallion early doors. But Rocky blocked everything thrown at him with his brain, and eventually dealt an horrific beating to the Russian. It goes without saying, but everyone involved should have been jaile

Roy Keane Picks The 5 Greatest Ever Comebacks

[moof]

Brilliant

[KMD7]

Yeah its funny very funny alright. They do a lot of Keane based skits.  That particular pic of Keane alone is enough to send me over the edge

[Bjornebye]

In tears here reading that.

[Bjornebye]

Still very close this. 

[Crouchie]

John G. Avildsen director of Rocky and Rocky 5 dead at 81 from pancreatic cancer. He also made the 3 Ralph Macchio Karate Kid movies.