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.

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.

Creed II saw a villain emerge from the past of Apollo Creed: Viktor Drago, the son of Ivan Drago who killed Apollo in the ring when Adonis was just a boy. Creed III finds its antagonist in Adonis ...