Sylvester Stallone has stated that, while they were filming “Rocky IV,” Dolph Lundgren delivered a number of heavy blows on him, and he had to be brought to the hospital as a result of his injuries.
In a documentary about the making of the movie that can be accessed on Sylvester Stallone’s YouTube channel, the actor claims, “He pulverized me.” “Even though I was unaware of it at the time, I started to get tightness in my chest later that night,” the speaker says.
Stallone likened the injury to what would happen if a person’s chest were to be pushed into the steering wheel of a car after it had been involved in a crash.
He claimed that when his blood pressure reached 260, the doctors felt he was going to start having conversations with angels.
The actor claims that he was airlifted from Canada to the intensive care unit of St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica, California, where he remained for a total of four days. He stated that he was transported to an unknown location in a “low altitude flight.”
He asserted, “I’m in the Intensive Care Unit, and the only other people here are nuns.” “At that point, I was under the obligation to make my way back to the stadium and finish the fight.”
According to Stallone, the scene in which Dolph Lundgren gets hit in the chest while portraying the role of the big Soviet fighter Ivan Drago is one that is featured in the movie.
“How could you possibly exclude the possibility of such happening?” As stated by Sylvester Stallone.
In the latest installment of the critically acclaimed “Rocky” film series, “Rocky IV,” Sylvester Stallone reprises his role as the dogged boxer Rocky Balboa. In the fourth installment, he has already established that he is deserving of the title of world boxing champion, and after discovering that Drago is responsible for the death of his friend Apollo Creed (played by Carl Weathers), he travels to the Soviet Union to face him. He has already won.