According to Sylvester Stallone, he took some heavy blows from Dolph Lundgren while filming “Rocky IV,” which required him to be sent to the hospital.
In a film production documentary about the movie that can be accessed on the actor’s YouTube channel, Sylvester Stallone claims, “He pulverized me.” “Later that night, though I didn’t feel it at the time, I started to feel some discomfort in my chest.”
Stallone compared the hurt to what occurs when your chest is thrown against the car’s steering wheel following a crash.
“When my blood pressure went up to 260, they thought I was going to be talking to angels,” he claimed. “They thought I was going to be talking to angels.”
The actor stated that he was transported from Canada to the intensive care unit at St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica, California, where he remained for a period of four days. He claimed that he was transported in a “low-altitude flight.”
“I’m in intensive care and the only other people here are nuns,” he claimed. “And after that, I was obligated to return to the arena and finish the battle.”
Stallone has stated that the hit to the chest that was delivered by Lundgren while he was playing the role of the massive Soviet boxer Ivan Drago is included in the film.
“How could you possibly exclude that?” Stallone stated.
The much-loved “Rocky” franchise continues in “Rocky IV,” in which Sylvester Stallone reprises his role as the tenacious fighter Rocky Balboa. In the fourth film, he has already proven himself worthy of the title of world boxing champion, and after learning that his friend Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) was killed by Drago, he flies to the Soviet Union in order to engage in a bout with the latter.
