Sylvester Stallone revealed that he had a brush with death after filming the scene with Dolph Lundgren, who plays Ivan Drago in Rocky IV.

The Hollywood icon presents the incident in the Netflix Sly document, which currently sends a stream in the service.

“Sly” returned to the fourth episode of his franchise, and Stallone again plays Rocky Balboa in 1985. He hired Lundgren, then, but a bizarre actor to play a Russian boxet.

The angle was that Drago abused the system with the aid of illegal means. That’s why Stallone put him in a fatal duel with his favorite Apollo Creed.

They began to train together to make sure that the main boxing scenes went as smoothly as possible. Although they tend to move with Stallone, things went south quickly.

Drago [Lundgren] He agreed to the star of John Rambo while filming epic scenes of the film’s final fight. Stallone gave his orders “they just hit me” to make it look as real as possible.

The younger, higher actor committed himself, and Stallone found himself in the hospital, fighting for his life.

“Dolph Lundgren,” he powdered me, “said Stallone. “Later that night my heart began to swell. This is happening when the heart hits the chest.

“Then my blood pressure increased to 260. They thought I would talk to Angels [to die]. Then I know, I am in care where the nuns surround me. I thought, “OK, these are curtains.”

The star was in the ICU for nine days and said that he prayed for “One more round” Rocky vs Drago.

In the end it was worth it. The third rocky continuation was a global break at the ticket office and is still successful.

After another scrap during training, it is known that it was not the first time Stallone experienced something like that.

It happened when Stallone shared the ring with Ernie Shavers, one of the biggest ponderous strokes in history. Stallone paired Shavers in the seventies to prepare for his rocky debut.

Stallone told Jonathan Ross in British chat that the session is shocking.

“They don’t know how to stop pulling blows. This is the point. They think:” I’m going.

“Earnie Shavers literally almost beat me to death without trying. [He was] Wearing 20 ounce gloves. Imagine he was irate!

“I crushed with [Muhammad] Ali and Joe Fraser gave me eleven seams. It was in about two seconds.

“I was thinking about using [Frazier] Instead of Mr. T in Rocky III. I said, “Let me exploit a real warrior.” This is not a good idea. “

As explained in the document, his close upbringing with his physical father prepared him to throw it.

“I was not a stranger to solemn pain. I think it just happened:” I won’t break “.

He fully recovered after Smash Smash, despite the fact that the doctors reportedly compared a collision blow.

“I hit the bus,” he added.

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