Rocky managed to defeat the machine-like Soviet boxer Ivan Drago in Rocky IV after Drago killed Apollo Creed in the ring. Three decades later, Adonis Creed avenges his father’s death by ...

But even though Weathers isn’t in the movie, his spirit certainly is in the character of Adonis Creed, who takes on Viktor Drago—the son of Ivan Drago, the man who killed Apollo—in the film.

Entertainment Inc. Way back in 1985, during the events of Rocky IV, monosyllabic bleach blonde Russian boxer Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren) killed Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) in the ring.