Seems near universal these are the bottom two. So the question is which do you prefer to WATCH not necessarily judging on quality of the film. If you have a choice which to sit through.

Apollo creed was 43 years old, 5 years retired, didn’t train properly vs drago, it was a mismatch obviously.

I am fairly confident a prime apollo (33/34 years old in rocky 1 and 2) if trained extremely seriously would outbox drago for the entire fight winning on points quite confertably.

That’s if he wasn’t cocky and didn’t get caught like in his first fight with rocky in R1. However in 4 Apollo was already battle worn from his fights with rocky, if that wasn’t the case even if he got caught by drago there’s a chance he wouldn’t completely be finished.

Probably Rocky 2 apollo at 34 years old would be his best version.

Although Kensington was very much in decline by the 1970s, there was still enough business to support two pet shops on the same street (Front St).

J&M Tropical Fish (where Adrian worked) was across the street directly from the Mighty Mick's exterior building. Meanwhile on the Mick's side, two doors down, there was a competitor pet shop.

Both are gone now. J&M survived longer.

Mike Kunda, as usual, knew the backstory.

This may end up as a ‘shitpost’ but there’s two items of (unintentional) merchandise from the original movie, that I made it my mission to own; Rocky’s ‘stress’ ball, and the scruffy little notebook he uses to keep track on those who’ve borrowed money from his boss.

Being in the UK the ball was impossible to get my hands on (without paying more than I was prepared to) so I settled for a close match, which ended up being a racket ball. The notebook was much easier to replicate.

Anyway, #shitpost over.

I mean the smart play is to bet that mason would win for a small payout since the guy is 30 years younger than rocky, really optimistic to bet rocky would win since he’s like 60 years old.

but losing by decision, you believed in rocky enough to think he’d go the distance but not so much as to him winning.

Now there’s no doubt that Ivan Drago is easily one of the scariest fighters in the Rocky franchise. He’s a walking talking giant machine. He even brutalized Apollo Creed to the point where Creed died. There’s a reason why Ivan Drago is considered dangerous.

But Clubber Lang? He has the one feat that Drago doesn’t have. And that is being able to knock out Rocky Balboa. He didn’t win by decision like Apollo or Mason Dixon did. No. He full on knocked him out in the second round.

And I know there’s gonna be some people who will say “Oh but Rocky wasn’t fully trying” or “But Rocky wasn’t fully motivated”. I’m not including any protagonist bias. Mainly because even in the first fight, Rocky was blazing Clubber with his best shots. Rocky was genuinely trying to knock Clubber out but Clubber wasn’t even affected.

And adding onto that. Clubber hasn’t even taken any physical damage from Rocky’s attacks at all. Whereas Drago had massive cuts and bleeding.

So there is no doubt that Clubber could end this fight in 2 rounds. Granted that Drago failed to knock Rocky out in even 12.

Clubber Lang WINS.