Dolph Lundgren sent Sylvester Stallone to the ICU in ‘Rocky 4’

If there is a stark fight in the Rocky saga, that was the fourth installment between the Italian Colt and the Russian Ivan Drago, who is about to kill the protagonist on the ring and the actor rolling… As you read it, Stallone wanted the fight to seem so real that a strong blow from his film partner sent him straight to the ICU. Which is not surprising seeing the mountain of muscles that was Lundgren. “Dolph Lundgren put me in the hospital for nine days,” reveals Stallone. “All I did was follow orders. He was the boss and I did what he told me,” Lundgren jokes.

“We finished filming some scenes in Vancouver, and when we got back to Los Angeles the producer said to me: ‘Hey Dolph you have two weeks off since Sly is in the hospital…’ It was a bad shot rolling in the ring, but that almost cost the good Stallone his life. Something that did not affect their relationship during the filming of the film and their friendship. In fact, they continued to work together afterwards and now, more recently, in the franchise The Expendables. The fourth installment By the way, it will hit theaters in 2022.