In real life apollo could have beat drago

Apollo was in immaculate shape

Well, Carl Weathers was in immaculate shape, which could give people that impression. Besides, with a sport as quick and unforgiving as boxing, it isn't just about body fat percentage. It's also about being in good mental shape. Apollo was clearly not this. It's about being ready for every possible combo and counter an opponent has in his bag of tricks. Apollo's tactics were sloppy and most likely used as a result of his own arrogance. He hadn't fought in a real match in years, which is bound to make a fighter slower to react to certain things, especially with an opponent he has very little to study on. He didn't treat Drago like he should have. Drago was a great boxer, and Apollo fought him like he was a bum. IF Apollo trained like he did for his rematch with Rocky, maybe we see a different fight. But he didn't.

But if it were real life, Apollo could have definitely won.

Key word in that sentence being "could". Theoretically, he might have been able to. But Drago would have had every advantage anyways. There was more film of Apollo for him to study that Apollo would have had of Drago, and he was also younger, stronger, and had an entire nations resources behind his training regiment. A nation that, despite its many flaws, knows a thing or two about training superhumans. Even in his prime, Apollo would have been looking at a tricky fight.

I don't think of myself as a Lion. You might as well though, I have a mighty roar.

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Or maybe he still would have lost but a regular knockout and not death, and before losing would have managed to do SOME damage to Drago.

Personally I think ANY version of Apollo loses to Drago. Rocky evolved beyond Apollo in Rocky 3 and he could barely beat Drago.

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