{"id":2550,"date":"2010-05-30T13:14:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T17:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=2550"},"modified":"2010-05-30T13:14:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-30T17:14:41","slug":"rocky-drago-most-memorable-sports-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/30\/rocky-drago-most-memorable-sports-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocky &#038; Drago: Most Memorable Sports Characters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><\/strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stallonezone.com\/imgs\/news\/2010\/may\/05302010rocky_drago.png?resize=475%2C709\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"709\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The BleacherReport.com<\/strong><\/a> recently posted their choices for <strong>The 20 Most Memorable Sports Movie Characters<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>There is no surprise that <strong>Rocky Balboa<\/strong> made the list.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what they had to say&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Sylvester Stallone&#8217;s legendary boxing role is one of the most memorable roles in any film in any genre. It wasn&#8217;t Stallone&#8217;s first role, but it is the job that launched him into an epic Hollywood star. <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The interesting addition to the list is that <strong>Ivan Drago<\/strong> also made the cut!\u00a0 Here&#8217;s why&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"slide-description\">\n<blockquote><p><strong>Stallone&#8217;s Soviet counterpart in Rocky IV makes the list because he is one of the most infamous antagonists in sports film history. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dolph Lundgren, who played Drago, fit the bill perfectly as the intimidating, steroid-infused, Red boxer through which the Patriotic Rocky sought vengeance. <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/398083-the-20-most-memorable-sports-movie-characters#page\/2\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>read the whole piece here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BleacherReport.com recently posted their choices for The 20 Most Memorable Sports Movie Characters. There is no surprise that Rocky Balboa made the list.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what they had to say&#8230; Sylvester Stallone&#8217;s legendary boxing role is one of the most memorable roles in any film in any genre. It wasn&#8217;t Stallone&#8217;s first role, but it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-F8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2551,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions\/2551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}