Listening to your own heart is your right, no one has the right to say no, you have the right to be the person you want to be, do what you want to do! You have to think about other people's feelings, not whatever you want! As you get older, you will find that you have many things that you can't do, and that's life. - Rocky 4
Generally speaking, the lower the level of a classic series of films, the lower the level, so many trilogy films are often of a high standard in the first one or two, but most of them look more watery in the third part. In the eyes of many people, the famous movie star Sylvester Stallone's famous work "Rocky" is like this.
Some people even directly pointed out that Rocky had completely routined when he filmed the third and fourth parts, and there was no novelty at all. Therefore, compared with the first three films with a Douban score of more than 8 points ("Rocky 1" 8.7 points, "Rocky 2" 8.3 points, "Rocky 3" 8.1 points), the score is only 7.6 "Rocky 4" seems to have just passed.
However, many people may not know that in fact, in the entire series of Rocky, my favorite is this Rocky 4. If not front Lodge 1-3. Rocky 4 can almost be said to be an extremely accurate prediction of the entire history of professional boxing from the mid-90s to 2015, which can be called the "push back map" of professional boxing.
<h1>The director's political leanings accurately predict a new era in the history of boxing</h1>
In the 1980s, under president Reagan's neoconservativeism re-ignited the nationalist boom in the United States, Hollywood certainly did not fall behind, and launched many movies that promoted national prestige in the eighties. Rocky 4 is one of those that is quite representative.
The story begins with the amateur heavyweight world champion Ivan Drago, trained under the unique scientific training methods of the Soviet Union, challenging European and American professional boxing. Apollo, the former world heavyweight boxer who was no longer at his peak at the time and a close friend of Rocky's, is still facing the game.
In reality, the first half of the 1980s and 1990s was the golden age of professional boxing. Especially in the 1980s, eastern European countries led by the Soviet Union were influenced by the system and cultivated a large number of boxing talents. But because the policy does not allow it, they have no chance to participate in professional boxing competitions.
So when Rocky 4 was filming, the director (that is, Stallone himself) wanted to express his own political tendencies through this film.
But no one expected that the upheavals in Eastern Europe in the past 90 years would cause the Soviet Union, a behemoth, to collapse. A large number of high-level athletes led by Russia and Ukraine have flocked to Europe and the United States and started their professional sports careers driven by interests.
As a professional boxing that can make huge profits, it naturally attracts a large number of excellent boxers, facing the increasingly severe pressure of life in China. They took their boxing gloves and entered the ring. Use the fist that brought countless honors to him in exchange for the income of supporting his family.
So professional boxing entered a new era - the era of eastern European torrents!
<h1>Striking resemblance! Whether it's the image of the actor or the plot of the story</h1>
In the film, although the former world boxer Apollo has good skills, he does not understand the technical characteristics of Ivan Drago, played by Lungel. So in the official matchup, Apollo, facing the tall Ivan Drago, became a target and was crushed by his opponent and died of his injuries in the game.
In reality, the first to attack professional boxing were former Warsaw Pact boxers with close ties to Britain and the United States, such as those in former East Germany and Poland. Because of regional relations, these boxers are more easily accepted by the European and American boxing circles than the athletes in the former Soviet Union.
The first to attack the heavyweights of professional boxing in Europe and the United States was The boxing star Axel Schulz from the former East Germany. Here it has to be said that this person is somewhat similar to Ivan Drago played by Lungel in terms of image, height and temperament.
Moreover, Axel Schultz first attacked the IBF World Boxing Championship title in the United States in 1995, and the opponent was not the four kings of European and American professional boxing at that time (Mike Tyson, Evand Hollyfield, Ridick Bowe, Lewis), but as in the film, it already belonged to the old boxing king George Foreman of the previous era, which is a striking similarity between reality and the film.
Although, George Foreman did not lose the game as depicted in the movie. But the extremely close score (one referee gave a 114-114 draw, and the other two gave a 115-113 that George Foreman narrowly won) already tells us that these comrades from Eastern Europe are not weaker than the world boxers of Europe and the United States.
Compared to Axel Schultz, who did not win excellent places at the World Championships and olympic games. At the same time, Andrew Golotta, the "Bad Boy of Poland" who began to compete in professional boxing, was much better both in terms of fame and achievements.
Andrew Golotta, who won the bronze medal in boxing for Poland at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, moved to Chicago with his wife, Mariola, in 1991 and began a professional boxing career with the second year. On 16 May 1995 he met his first real rival, Samson Boha. He knocked down Boha five times during the match, but Golotta's bad habits were also revealed, and he bit the opponent's shoulder during the game. When he defeated Nicholson, Golotta won 28 professional matches, thus qualifying to play against Ridick Bow, one of the four kings of professional boxing.
But in both encounters, Andrew Golotta hit too low in the face of the dominant situation. Missing the opportunity to become a heavyweight world boxing champion had to be lamented.
However, when European and American professional boxers are secretly happy, the real test of European and American professional boxing has just begun.
After the 1996 Olympics, Ukrainian boxer Vladimir Kritschenko, who won a heavyweight gold medal in boxing, announced his transition to professional boxing, along with his brother Vitaly Krychko. It was the inconspicuous eldest brother Vitaly Klitchenko, who was one step ahead of his younger brother and won the WBO Heavyweight World Champion title on June 26, 1999, in London, England, ko defeating WBO heavyweight boxing champion Herby Hyde.
At this point, the era of eastern European torrents has become irreversible.
<h1>high tide! The title of Boxer of the Four Major Organizations was all won by the former Su Contact Boxer</h1>
In the film, after the death of Apollo, in the face of the Soviet world champion Ivan Drago, he talked about the professional boxing king, but err, and no one in european and American professional boxing. The European and American boxing scene is silent. Rocky is the only one who decides to put on his robes again and avenge his friend.
In fact, the development of reality is even more painful. Of the four kings of the golden age of professional boxing, Ridick Bow retired earlier, Mike Tyson peaked too fast, and only Evand Hollyfield and Lennox Lewis tried to fend off the torrents of Eastern Europe. But when these two veterans retired, the entire professional boxing world was the world of Eastern European forces.
August 14, 2006, was an absolutely memorable day. Russian boxer Oleg Maskaev defeated Hashem Raman, nicknamed "The Rock," in a match to claim the WBC heavyweight World Boxing Champion title.
At this time, the IBF's heavyweight World Champion title belonged to Ukrainian boxer Wladimir Klitschko; the WBA's heavyweight World Champion Gold Belt belonged to Russian boxer Nikolay Valuev; and WBO's Heavyweight World Champion Gold Belt was draped over Belarusian boxer Sergei Riakkovich.
At this point, the scene in the movie "Lodge 4" was fully realized, the title of world boxing champion of the world's four major organizations belonged to the boxers of the former Soviet Union, and the torrent of Eastern Europe reached its peak.
From 1995 to 2006, the professional boxing scene has changed dramatically in just over 10 years.
<h1>Facing the snowy mountain Rocky with his hands held high, heralding the arrival of a new era of professional boxing</h1>
In the film, a negotiated Lodge decides to go on an expedition to Russia to avenge his dead best friend at Ivan Drago's home. During the preparations for the Russian war, he went deep into nature, running in the snow-capped mountains and training hard under the harsh conditions of nature. When everything was ready, Lodge and Ivan Drago fought a decisive battle and defeated Ivan Drago with tenacity. While avenging his friends, he regained his honor for european and American professional boxing.
I believe that people who like every Rocky movie will like the picture of Rocky's morning exercise in the film. The first two are calm streets, the third is the early morning beach, and the fourth part is the snow-capped mountains with Eastern European characteristics.
When the familiar music sounds, watching Rocky climb the snowy mountain to break through his physical limits and shout with his hands raised, it always makes my heart excited.
You may not believe it, but the Klitchenko brothers' training camp in Austria, which has dominated the professional boxing heavyweight for almost 10 years, is also close to the snowy mountains.
The Krychchenko brothers, especially their younger brother Vladimir Clichko, will look for potential heavyweight rising stars around the world to be their sparring partners in order to be able to perpetuate their heavyweight rule.
And these uninitiated new stars are very willing to accept invitations while getting a good honorarium, but also fighting with the world's heavyweight overlords and increasing their strength.
Of these new stars, there are three who have to say something. They were Deonta Wilder from the United States, Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury from the United Kingdom. Perhaps these three people will raise their hands like Rocky when they face the snow-capped mountains all year round on their morning run, hoping that they will one day be able to defeat their sparring partner and defeat the world boxing champion Vladimir Klitchenko.
Moreover, the wishes of these three young people were finally fulfilled.
On January 17, 2015, in the WBC Heavyweight Championship in Las Vegas, USA, Deonta Wilder defeated Canada's Bermane Stiverne to win the WBC Heavyweight Champion Gold Belt, which sounded the clarion call to break the rule of Klitchenko Jr.
On November 29, 2015, in the WBA, WBO, IBF Heavyweight World Championships held in Düsseldorf, Germany, Tyson Furie defeated the then professional boxing heavyweight Vladimir Klitchenko with a unanimous judgment, and won the five heavyweight world boxing championships that originally belonged to Vladimir Kelitchenko.
In April 2017, Vladimir Kritschenko lost the match outright in england when He was also a sparring partner, Anthony Joshua, in the 11th round of the match.
Soon after, Vladimir Kritchenko, who once represented the highest level of professional boxing in Eastern Europe, announced his retirement, and professional boxing entered a new era.
<h1>summary</h1>
"No pain!"
"You start and you don't stop. All your strength. All your power. All your love! Everything you've got."
In the Rocky series of movies, Rocky is knocked down by different opponents again and again in almost every film, because Rocky dedicates not only his flesh to the sport of boxing, but also his love for boxing, and even his life.
This is also the meaning of professional boxing, and it is also the reason why professional boxing has endured for a long time. It is precisely because director Stallone has grasped the essence of professional boxing that he can make this classic Rocky movie after another.
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