Apollo Creed

Like, it, it was like a mo- it was movie stuff.

But he lost, like the way Rocky lost to Apollo Creed, still slugging away in the la- in the last round.

Looked like maybe could he get something done? Could he stop him? It was, it, it just an epic fight, but he lost the decision, rematched with Eubank, and this time beat Eubank pretty easily, really dominated him.

So Benn is a big deal now.

Dorn's credits go back to '65, and uh, I don't remember this at all, but he has an uncredited role as a bodyguard.

I think he's one of Apollo Creed's bodyguards in 1976's Rocky.

Oh, I didn't know that.

Yeah.

So Dolph Lundgren, do you know who he is? No, I'm looking him up.

Okay, he was the Russian in Rocky IV who fought Apollo Creed.

And spoiler alert, the movie's like 40 years old.

Yeah.

Kills Apollo Creed, right? So he punches Apollo Creed so hard that Apollo Creed goes down.

And it's like the middle of the boxing matches, Rocky IV, okay? And this is the strangest thing that is stuck in my head, but this line is stuck in my head that Dolph Lundgren, the Russian, said in Rocky IV, and I say it all the time.

And so he knocks Apollo Creed down and Apollo Creed is hitting the ground and he's dying.

And they put the camera up to Dolph Lundgren to face the Russian.

You took beatings for much of your career.

You took beatings in those Apollo Creed fights.

It is now my job.

It has been my job to keep that belt on you and to keep you healthy.

It's incredible, actually.

Yeah, and then knowing that Rocky's only as good as his enemy, so Apollo Creed, Mr. T-

Mm-hmm

... uh-

Wow.

I love the Creed movies.

This is like a different play on it, and the play is that really the only crazier story than the actual story of Rocky himself is the story of how Rocky was originally made.

Right.

He put up the fight of his life against a champ who, just like the Rocky movie, Sylvester Stallone got the idea for the movie Rocky.

If you remember in Rocky 1, the idea was just to last.

He knew he couldn't beat Apollo Creed, who's Muhammad Ali.

All he wanted to do was go the distance.

If you remember in Rocky 1, the idea was just to last.

He knew he couldn't beat Apollo Creed, who's Muhammad Ali.

All he wanted to do was go the distance.

No one had ever gone the distance with Creed.

And then it turned into a big guy.

I look like Rocky Balboa after Apollo Creed got a hold of him in the in the, you know, toward the end of the fight.

And then you guys saw that.

And then that same day, though, I got stung by wasp.