Rocky 4 (2nd best Rocky flick) is on now and Apollo just got sent into heavenly glory by Ivan Drago. It made me wonder: How would the fight have turned out if Apollo were at his peak?
Predict the outcome
Rocky 4 (2nd best Rocky flick) is on now and Apollo just got sent into heavenly glory by Ivan Drago. It made me wonder: How would the fight have turned out if Apollo were at his peak?
Predict the outcome
A prime Apollo Creed would have beaten Drago.
A seasoned undisputed World Champ in his prime vs some big untested, inexperienced amateur? Get real, that $#!t only works in the movies....
Rocky didn't even bring sparring partners when he boxed Drago.
Sparring is the primary way to prepare for a match; Rocky did NO sparring for Drago.
Of all the fighters we've seen in the Rocky films, I think Apollo Creed was the best fighter. He had the speed, good enough punching power, boxing skills, footwork, but most of all he had heart and charsima! Creed was definitely the complete package.
A prime Apollo Creed would have danced circles around Drago and possibly make him even quit. id imagine it to be something like Leonard-duran 2 or Creed wins a decision..
Drago was a bum, take away the PEDs and Mickey would have beaten him
Drago was not an amateur, he was a professional prize fighter in the Soviet Union who happened to be the champion, during the cold war the Soviets would not allow their fighters to fight Americans, a lot like Cuba has done. They were willing to make an exception for Drago because he was so dominate, it was good propaganda.
To answer your question I think a prime Creed in a UD.
Union Cane beats a clean Drago
Lol @ Union Cane.
Union Cane always reminded me of Bruce Seldon
Was Yoda a big red giant before he shrunk and became green?
The answer is the same as the answer to your question.
Ask the fiction writers.
You say tomato,
‘n I say …… it correctly.
What is fiction? So much of boxing history is spun in politics and corruption that so often it is hard to differentiate fact from fiction. Is LaMotta/Fox a work of fiction? What about Coggi/GonzalesI? Do you believe Duran floored a horse? What about the alphabet organizations rankings?
What I do know is in his pomp The Dancing Destroyer, The King of Sting, The Count of Monte Fisto, The Prince of Punch, The Master of Disaster, The one, The only... Apollo Creed wins easily over Drago.
"Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it."
George Foreman
I think Drago would have landed a dynamite punch and stopped Apollo who would have got careless. Ivan was one scary MF.
Do not let success go to your head and do not let failure get to your heart.
I love this thread. Props to the thread starter here. A prime Apollo Creed = A prime Roy Jones Jr...Apollo wins this one easy.
I disagree, Apollo was overrated. He almost got beat by a no one from Philly.
Handsdown, I'd go with Tommy as the best fighter in the Rocky films; he'd have flattened any of them!Of all the fighters we've seen in the Rocky films, I think Apollo Creed was the best fighter.
48 wins, (42 KOs), 3 losses, 1 draw.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0bdBId_J7M
http://youtu.be/n0bdBId_J7M
Last edited by bradlee180; 08-07-2013 at 05:20 AM.
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...
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Bookmarks