re: Let us overanalyze the Rocky movies....

If all it took was a push from Clubber Lang, he was going to suffer a heart attack eventually regardless. Those factors that lead to a heart attack accumulate and compound over time, they don't just happen because of a single stressful event. Mickey was a highly strung guy, it was just his time to go.

I think Rocky still loses that fight. He never fought anyone close to having Lang's power and needed to lose to know what it would take to win.