He weighed 243 pounds (110 kg) – 245 pounds (111 kg) during filming, but in the film he was billed at 261 pounds (118 kg); one publisher said of Drago, "He's a hulking 261 pounds of merciless fighting machine, the best that Soviet science & medicine can create".
The Victor Drago character is 220lbs and Adonis Creed had a career where he moved from light heavyweight, up to heavyweight and the character has weighed in at 214lbs. The actor who played Victor Drago was 240 at 6′4 and trim...
What was the weight difference between Rocky and Drago?
According to the reality of the movie, both Rocky and Drago are heavyweights, with Ivan Drago weighing 261 pounds. I do not know how much did Rocky supposedly weigh during that fight, but being 50 pounds lighter would still put him in the heavyweight category.
After all, we're talking about a 42-year-old Apollo Creed who hasn't fought professionally in years taking on a 24-year-old Ivan Drago who holds the record for the strongest punch ever recorded. The Master of Disaster sizing up the Siberian Bull.
As such, Drago trains himself for the event, even getting himself injected with steroids by his trainers Manuel Vega and Sergei Rimsky to intensify his strength. During the match, Drago seemed to have the upper hand, but Rocky manages to fight back, earning the respect of the Soviet audience.
*Note: The fight with Tommy Gunn is not recognized, as it is a street fight, and therefore, illegal—but Rocky shows him who the real champ is. Height: 5 ft., 10 in. Weight: 210 lb. Reach: 74 in.
Physically, he has Olympic Powerlifter strength as evidenced by his ability to overhead press 455 lbs (The world record is 484 lbs). However, lifting strength doesn't necessarily translate into punching power, but Drago also has that in droves.
Stallone claims to have been able to bench press 385-400 lbs (174.6-181.4 kg) and squat 500 lbs (226.8 kg) in his prime. While in a bench pressing contest with former Mr. Olympia Franco Columbu, he severely tore his pectoral muscle and needed over 160 stitches on it.
The impossibility of Balboa's victory over the much larger Ivan Drago might seem obvious, but it's actually not entirely unrealistic, as such results often occur in the world of boxing. However, Rocky IV's ending would not have happened as it did if the movie adhered to the rules of logic.
Scholars note that Drago's ultimate defeat and the Soviet crowd's embrace of Rocky represented the dissolution of the Soviet Union, while others criticized the film as propaganda through its Cold War themes and negative portrayals of Russians.
Drago is seen receiving intramuscular injections in the movie, implied to be anabolic steroids, though the actual nature of the injected solution is never explicitly stated; instead, Ludmilla, his wife, states as a joke that Drago is like Popeye and eats spinach every day.
If a punch thrown by Rocky IV villain Ivan Drago is supposed to measure 2,150 psi and his glove's impact area is something like four square inches, he'd be exerting a force of 8,600 pounds, or more than four tons. Based on the professional literature, no boxer in real life comes anywhere close to that.
He pumped up to a freakish 209 lbs. (95 kg); in Rambo II he weighed only 168 (76 kg). And, he insists, he did it without steroids, though with the help of a prescription testosterone. "HGH [human growth hormone] is nothing.
Rocky IV (1985) - Rocky IV also fudges the timeline by making it seem like it starts right after Rocky III but the movie then jumps forward to 1985 when Ivan Drago arrives in the U.S. Apollo was killed by Drago and Rocky defeated the Russian in a fight held in Moscow on Christmas 1985 when Rocky was 38 or 39.
Munteanu kept it simple to get in shape for Creed II, too. Before prepping for the movie, he weighed in at a hefty 250 pounds. As Viktor Drago, he's a slimmed-down 225. Here are his three secrets to getting ready for the silver-screen ring.
How much did Michael B. Jordan weigh during Creed 2?
Jordan cut down to between 188 to 191 pounds for Creed II, according to Calliet, but he still looks ready to go the distance, losing some of the size he carried for his last project without appearing any less powerful.
Despite being the face of the Rocky franchise, Stallone chose not to appear in Creed III due to creative differences with producer Irwin Winkler as well as with Jordan, although he is still a producer on the film. According to Stallone, the film had a much darker tone that he didn't agree with.
Ivan Drago: Drago was a Soviet boxer who was trained to be a killing machine. He was incredibly strong and had a powerful punch. Rocky faced Drago in a 15-round fight in Rocky IV, and it was one of the most brutal fights in boxing history.
She is a Soviet gold-medal swimmer who is the ex-wife and spokeswoman to Soviet captain Ivan Drago. Compared to Ivan himself, she is more despicable as she abandoned him after he lost to Rocky Balboa, and later appeared to have gone unchanged when interacting with her own estranged son Viktor.
While the boxing matches are inspiring, bloody, and well-filmed, they aren't nearly as accurate as the fights in other movies, like the one at the end of Raging Bull. This pattern of unrealistic fights is true for almost every boxing match throughout the Rocky and Creed movies, except one.
