

Rocky IV is the fourth installment in the renowned Rocky franchise. The punch by Dolph Lundgren that sent Stallone to the hospital was kept in the final version of the movie. While in intensive care for four days, he explained that he was “surrounded by nuns.”īut afterwards, he had to “finish the fight” in the 1985 classic boxing film. Next thing I know I’m on this emergency, low-altitude flight.” My blood pressure went up to 260, and I was going to be talking to angels. And I didn’t feel it in the moment, but later that night, my heart started to swell.
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Sign up to our new free Indy100 weekly newsletter Then he got “really injured’ in the fight and had to fly from Canada to a hospital in Santa Monica, California. The 75-year-old said that his entrance in the film was shot before Lundgren’s, followed by “the introductions.” The actor recalled his experience in the documentary “The Making of Rocky vs Drago by Sylvester Stallone.”Īfter filming the fight sequence with Captain Ivan Drago (played by Dolph Lundgren), Stallone said he was rushed to intensive care. Sylvester Stallone revealed that he almost died while filming Rocky IV and had to be rushed to a hospital as a result.

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