Could Apollo Creed have beaten Drago in his prime?

[bradlee180]

Of all the fighters we've seen in the Rocky films, I think Apollo Creed was the best fighter.

Handsdown, I'd go with Tommy as the best fighter in the Rocky films; he'd have flattened any of them!
48 wins, (42 KOs), 3 losses, 1 draw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0bdBId_J7M
http://youtu.be/n0bdBId_J7M

[bradlee180]

Tommy stopped Razor Ruddock, Carl Williams, Joe Hipp, Pinklon Thomas, James Quick Tillis, and outboxed Big George.

Only 3 losses in 52 fights, Tommy's loss to unheralded Michael Bentt was a huge upset, but his other two losses were to Gold Medal winners:
1. A prime Ray Mercer who Tommy beat the living $#!t out of for 4 rds until getting caught in the 5th. Mercer went on to fight both a prime Holyfield and a prime Lennox to a standstill, both fights were very close.
2. the 2nd loss was to a prime Lennox Lewis who was The Man and the dominant Heavyweight for 8 years.

Tommy was a very good fighter in an outstanding era of Heavyweights.
One of the quickest, devastating left hooks you'll ever see, the guy could really fight.

About a thousand pro Heavyweights worldwide, any Top 10 man is World-Class, and Tommy was good enough to consistently be a Top 4 guy, but just missing that little extra that makes a man the elite Top 3.

Nobody in the Rocky films is better than Tommy.
Ain't no piddlin' 175 pounder like Antonio Tarver beatin' Tommy.
What matters is reality, not P4P fiction, and reality is what happens when 2 men actually fight, and no piddlin' 175 pounder was gonna beat a 6'2" 227 lb Tommy.
No former Toughman Champ like Mr. T, certainly no actors like Carl Weathers, 5'10" Stallone, nor a 6'4" Drago...

[Nameless]

Creed would dance his way around Drogo and puncture his face with a relentless series of jabs and straights. Drogo would cluelessly look for the big punch. JAmes Brown would sing "livin America" one more time.

[Jerry Rice]

Tommy stopped Razor Ruddock, Carl Williams, Joe Hipp, Pinklon Thomas, James Quick Tillis, and outboxed Big George.

Only 3 losses in 52 fights, Tommy's loss to unheralded Michael Bentt was a huge upset, but his other two losses were to Gold Medal winners:
1. A prime Ray Mercer who Tommy beat the living $#!t out of for 4 rds until getting caught in the 5th. Mercer went on to fight both a prime Holyfield and a prime Lennox to a standstill, both fights were very close.
2. the 2nd loss was to a prime Lennox Lewis who was The Man and the dominant Heavyweight for 8 years.

Tommy was a very good fighter in an outstanding era of Heavyweights.
One of the quickest, devastating left hooks you'll ever see, the guy could really fight.

About a thousand pro Heavyweights worldwide, any Top 10 man is World-Class, and Tommy was good enough to consistently be a Top 4 guy, but just missing that little extra that makes a man the elite Top 3.

Nobody in the Rocky films is better than Tommy.
Ain't no piddlin' 175 pounder like Antonio Tarver beatin' Tommy.
What matters is reality, not P4P fiction, and reality is what happens when 2 men actually fight, and no piddlin' 175 pounder was gonna beat a 6'2" 227 lb Tommy.
No former Toughman Champ like Mr. T, certainly no actors like Carl Weathers, 5'10" Stallone, nor a 6'4" Drago...

You forgot thunder lips.

[bradlee180]

Oh $#!t, I'm gettin' senile, Smokin' Joe made like a 20 second appearance too in the 1st one in 1976...

[bradlee180]

I did remember Duran though and chose not to consider him, I mean c'mon, 5'7" Lightweight?

[bzkfn]

It is a close call. I lost alot of respect for Apollo for blatently ducking Clubber Lang. Crazy foo!

[BIG H]

Prime Creed versus Drago, goes how the first 15 seconds of their fight went. Creed humiliates him!

Creed also beats Lang, Morrison, Kane, and Dixon, but not Thunderlip or Spider Rico!