Lundgren

As the underdog fighter Rocky Balboa, Sylvester Stallone has taken his share of punches—but none harder than from Dolph Lundgren, who played his nemesis Ivan Drago in the 1985 boxing sequel Rocky IV. In November 2021, while promoting his new director’s cut of the movie, Stallone stated that he ended up in the ICU after…

Dolph Lundgren has had an action movie career spanning several decades, but he is still best known to American audiences as Ivan Drago, the villainous Russian fighter who went toe to toe with underdog boxer Rocky Balboa in Rocky IV. Sylvester Stallone’s director’s cut of that movie, retitled Rocky vs. Drago, has brought that showdown…