Rocky IV (1985) on Netflix
Soviet boxer Ivan Drago arrives in the United States. Apollo Creed, a former champion out of the ring for years, takes him on, and Rocky Balboa agrees to train Creed.
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Plot summary
Drago's manager Koloff brings the Soviet boxer Ivan Drago to the United States and promotes him as proof of Soviet superiority. Drago, billed as The Siberian Express, travels with his wife Ludmilla, a champion swimmer, and a staff of trainers. Apollo Creed, the former heavyweight champion and a friend of Rocky Balboa, wants back in the ring and challenges Drago to an exhibition. Rocky doubts that Apollo, who has been away from the sport for years, can handle an opponent of that size, but he agrees to help train him, working with Apollo's trainer Duke Evers. The exhibition is booked for the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Rocky IV (1985)
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- One forceful punch to Stallone's chest slammed his heart against his breastbone and made it swell; with labored breathing and a blood pressure over 200 he was flown from the set in Vancouver to Saint John's Regional Medical Center in Santa Monica and spent eight days in intensive care.
- Dolph Lundgren tossed Carl Weathers into the corner of the boxing ring during filming; Weathers shouted profanities, announced he was calling his agent and quitting, and a four-day work stoppage followed until Stallone made the two reconcile and Lundgren agreed to tone down his aggressiveness.
- The robot was written into the movie after the same machine had been used to help treat Stallone's autistic son.
- Timothy Anderson developed a treatment for Rocky IV on spec and sued when the studio passed on it and the resulting script came out similar; the court held his treatment was an unauthorised derivative of the characters Stallone had created in Rocky I through III.
- Peter Cetera said he originally wrote his best-selling solo single "Glory of Love" as the end title for this film, but United Artists passed on it and the song was used instead as the theme for The Karate Kid Part II.
- The film won five Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Actor for Sylvester Stallone, Worst Director for Stallone, Worst Supporting Actress and Worst New Star for Brigitte Nielsen, and Worst Musical Score for Vince DiCola.
- In 2012 the Olympians Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte said the training sequences in Rocky IV inspired them to use a cabin similar to the one Balboa uses in the film.
