8000 auditions,,Who would you pick to play Drago?

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Vernon Wells, Brian Thompson, Patrick Swayze, Kurt Russell, Peter Weller, Michael Biehn, David Hasselhoff, Tom Selleck, Jean-Claude Van Damme, William Sadler, Jürgen Prochnow, Johnny Depp, Kevin Dillon, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, Brad Pitt, Mel Gibson, Jesse Ventura, Kiefer Sutherland, Thomas F. Wilson, Val Kilmer, Sean Bean, Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Alec Baldwin, Jsu Garcia, Robert Patrick, Matt Dillon, Sonny Landham, Richard Chaves, Alexander Godunov, 'Kane Hodder (I)', Chris Sarandon, Keanu Reeves, Paul Satterfield, Eric Stoltz, Chuck Norris, Viggo Mortensen, Gary Sinise, Tony Goldwyn, Armand Assante, Michael Madsen, Liam Neeson and Roddy Piper auditioned to play the role as Ivan Drago.


****EDITED UPDATE**** 6/20/15

This list of names has now been deleted, and now IMDb trivia only says that 8000 people auditioned for Drago, without mentioning ANY names.... So IMDb must realized that this was *beep* when someone with a bit of sense and a bit of sway told them so.