List ranks best P4P fighters in Rocky/Creed universe

I don’t think you can put Adonis above Drago.

Even in the movies they say the fighters in current times aren’t what they used to be.

can't believe we never got to see Clubber vs Drago

Damn. Union Cane held the world title and can't even get listed ahead of Spider Rico? Ouch. Guess he did have so much glass in his jaw he could've been a chandelier.

Also, Big Yank Ball in shambles right now.

Ivan getting KO'd by a semi-retired mid-late 30s Rocky has to go against him.

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Yeah how does Drago go behind his murder victim Apollo?

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It was supposed to be an exhibition

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and his only pro loss was a bell-beater at the literal end of his career.

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There was that OTHER loss…

Clubber at 5 seems to high. He was raw power, but not a technical boxer.
Adonis is way to high, but could be i just don't like the character

Apollo is #1 and that shouldn't be up for debate.

Near retirement, he went 1-1 vs the guy most of you have as #1. Even in his loss, he was dominant and would have won a unanimous decision if not for the literal last second of the fight. Coulda, woulda, shoulda - I get it. But he was the better fighter even at the end of his career. If you count unsanctioned fights, Rocky admits that Apollo won their underground fight too. That shouldn't count in sanctioned, P4P boxing rankings, but most of y'all will rank Tommy Gunn low on the list for losing his unsanctioned fight with Rocky. So if you are giving it weight in that scenario, then Apollo needs his credit their too. And let's not forget that Rocky needed Apollo to train him in order to defeat the one-dimensional Clubber Lang.

Apollo vs Drago? Wasn't a real fight. If retired Mayweather fights an exhibition fight today vs an up and coming boxer and loses that exhibition, you think he loses his career P4P ranking too? No, that's just silly.

Clubber Lang's ranking is too high. He was one dimensional. I'd say he was less skillful than Tommy Gunn (yeah, I said it). He would wreck Tommy because of the mental edge as Tommy would've lost that fight mentally before even stepping into the ring, but Clubber wasn't "great" by any means. If you could get past the intimidation factor and survive the early onslaught from Clubber, then you had him.

Drago wouldn't have been intimidated AT ALL by Clubber. That would have been a destruction. Easy KO win by Drago.

Drago had the talent to be #1 on this list, but never leaving Russia killed his career. He would've been a long time world champion after Rocky's retirement after their fight. Tommy Gunn would've had to go through him and not Union Cane to win the belt and ain't no way that's happening. Drago's reign would have been a decade of dominance had he left Russia. So we'll never know how how great he couldve been. Consider this: Rocky was Drago's first professional fight! Sky was the limit for this monster.

Are y'all taking prime Apollo over prime Clubber? That's tough for me. Always thought Clubber was basically Mike Tyson. Apollo was more accomplished tho.