I want to know why the producers killed Apollo? Sales show that they lost thousands upon thousands, maybe even millions in box office sales in the fifth installment of the Rocky franchise compared to the third or fourth. So why hurt the entire company? Seems extremely stupid to me.
It was simply about the Soviet's most powerful boxer Ivan Drago (played by Dolph Lundgren) to come to American and challenge America's best boxers (the old standby plot of Russian against American). Seeing Drago on TV Apollo Creed is motivated by patriotism and also wanted to prove himself after five years in retirement to make a come back. Unfortunately, Apollo Creed was no match for the well trained Ivan Drago and although putting a good fight to the end was killed by one last blow from Drago.
Rocky didn't decide to fight Apollo Creed. Apollo Creed decided to fight Rocky. He wanted to give a "no one" a chance to fight in the big battle to make it look like the american dream.
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he fought Apollo creed played by carl wethers
Rocky fought Ivan drago , Mr T, Apollo creed. Clubber line and the russion maan and silvermaancrean
Tommy Morrison played Tommy 'Machine' Gunn.
Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) , Clubber Lang (Mr. T ) , Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren) ,
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he fought Apollo creed played by carl wethers
Rocky fought Ivan drago , Mr T, Apollo creed. Clubber line and the russion maan and silvermaancrean
Tommy Morrison played Tommy 'Machine' Gunn.
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Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) , Clubber Lang (Mr. T ) , Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren) ,
Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) , Clubber Lang (Mr. T ) , Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren) ,
In the last rocky balboa film he fought the middleweight undefeated champion Floyed Mayweather.
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Following his recent defeat of Apollo Creed, Rocky Balbao settles down to normal live and marries Adrian. He struggles to find a job and ends up in a meat factory. Apollo is angry that Rocky won the last fight and asked for another fight. This was something that Rocky did not want to do but after his wife falls into a coma following childbirth, he trains hard beating Apollo to become the Champion of the World.
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According to wikipedia:" Sylvester Stallone's original concept for Rocky, and the character Rocky Balboa, was inspired by his viewing of a fight between Muhammed Ali and Chuck Wepner. The idea of an underdog going the distance and putting up a fierce fight against all odds appealed to Stallone. "Wikipedia also says that the character Apollo Creed was 'loosely' based on Muhammed Ali.