EDIT -- Rocky Balboa vs. IVAN DRAGO

That broad NEVER believed in Rocky. It took a coma for her to think he could beat Apollo. Don't recall III, but I'm sure she begged her man to not fight Clubber Lang.

And in IV, Rocky had to go to the middle of fucking Siberia before she came around. Would you have missed her if she kicked it after Rocky III? Not me.

 

That is not true. She supported Rocky from the first one. She didn't want him to fight in Rocky II and didn't want him killed in Rocky IV. But through it all, it was always Adrienne to kept him going.

 

She was supportive of him in III, to the point where she essentially said, 'train hard or go home'.

She was against him fighting in IV, until she magically decides to support him. No explanation of why, though.

And one other thing that's never explained, Adrian is afraid he will go blind in his right eye in II, yet you never hear of his eye injury again. Why is that?

 

One of the mysteries of Hollyweird. But remember in Rocky II, Mickey taught him how to protect the eye.

 

But that's another Hollywood mystery. Mickey gets Rocky to fight right-handed, in the hopes of confusing Apollo. Through 14 rounds, Apollo basically kicks Rocky's ass. Finally, in the 15th, Mickey tells Rocky to switch, and Rocky refuses, for some inexplicable reason. Then, Rocky does switch. This leads to the following questions:

1. Why doesn't Mickey have Rocky switch earlier, seeing that he's losing by a big margin?

2. Why does Rocky refuse to switch?

3. Why does Rocky, in the middle of the 15th round, finally switch?

Ah, the mysteries of Hollywood.

 

As a Rocky authority, I'll attempt to answer them.
1, He wanted to soften Apollo up, make him over confident.
2, Rocky was stubborn.
3, Rocky knew it was now or never and he was tired of geting his ass kicked.
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