Mr. Weathers... the world without you will NEVER be the same. Thanks for the iconic memories. You may be gone, but will NOT be forgotten and your legacy in our hearts will live on. Rest easy, brother 🥊💪💜🙏🇺🇲
I wish Stallone had tapped into some of this during the funeral: "He gave me my career ... when I lost it, he got it back for me ..." all sentiments he could have expressed about the character of Creed that would have really enhanced that scene. A decent director might have coaxed the performance out of him. Kidding.
Duke screaming "What's the matter with you guys, what are you guys doing?! This is supposed to be an exhibition, an EXHIBITION!" It comes across so raw and emotional, that part always stuck with me.
@@J_Rossi εάν ψάχνεις για τον σωσία του, υπάρχει και είναι στην Αθήνα. θα ήταν ωραίο να τον ξαναδούμε σε κάποια ταινία ως δίδυμο αδελφό του, εκτός κιαν έχει δίδυμο αδελφό........
@@kevinobrien9626 That's EXACTLY what he should have done. Obviously it's just a movie, but there would be no reason to be that agressive in an exhibition fight. There are no judges, and usually no declared winner. He would reserve that kind of punching for a professional bout.
@@bond1_mjblosser A guy who dissed him and said he'd flatten him with ease? I don't blame the other side for bringing it. Again, you 'exhibit' how hard you can hit by 'exhibiting' it.
I don't think Stallone should have had Apollo Creed easily destroyed like this. The plot would have worked just as well if it were a later-round uppercut to the honker that finished him off after he had inflicted at least minor damage on Drago. It's too lopsided, and doesn't really make any sense, since Apollo and Rocky are supposedly equal as boxers. I think it disrespects the character.
Black dudes always get humiliated and disrespected in Hollywood movies, they always have to try and make them look weak. As Eddie Murphy suggested in Raw, people in real life are probably smarter than to think everyone can be Rocky and take out an Apollo the way he did in the movie and illustrated it in spectacularly hilarious fashion how the real life fight would go.
@@mohamedabdelfatah9120he was in fantastic shape. Just didn’t train properly for this fight, didn’t take it seriously and was much older and not in his prime.
My GOD!!! This hits so differently now!! 😢 Even more now than when I was a kid in the 80s. We loved Apollo Creed and we loved the man who played him even more, Mr. Carl Weathers! We all will miss you and you will never be forgotten.
I love the Rocky movies but I mean cmon. How does it go from the Ref trying to stop the fight to being shoved by Drago and then he just sits there watching Appollo getting murdered LOL.
It 'got' the crew as well. Carl Weathers improvised the move, and had people checking up on him: "Mr Weathers... you ARE ok, right ...?" He winked at 'em.
Remember seeing this at the theater and thinking how genuinely scared I was for Apollo after the 1st round, especially seeing how his wife reacted to him. You just felt that something bad was gonna happen. RIP Carl Weathers
By the way…At the expo event in Chicago. I’ve met Carl Weathers before he passed… I have a picture of him and Rocky next to each other. I haven’t framed it yet. I shook his hand and asked him; “when are they having the ‘Rocky’ anniversary party? He responded; “young brother, they never tell me anything” I’ve responded; “well , thank you for all of the memories. You’ll do great in ‘star wars’. Take care.” RIP Carl Weathers Now all I gotta do, is meet Rocky, Ivan and Adrian. It’s sad that most of the cast, are gone. Be grateful for life. “There is no tomorrow” - A.C.
I think this cut is from the Rocky IV that Stallone re-released a few years ago, that made this fight a little longer and had Apollo do better. Still wish the character had never been killed off though.
The most emotional part for me is when he looked back at his wife , and the tears was welling in her eyes. It was like he wanted to look at her one last time and she knew it was about to get bad for him
*Moral of the story : If you know that you are going to lose, just jump too much and dance in the ring 😂😂😂😂😂😂 it will make you look like that you are not a novice* 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂to 😂😂😂😂😂😂
This is pretty silly. Appollo's original trainer screaming, "throw in the towel!" He would have thrown Rocky in the ring with the towel or jumped in the ring to protect his fighter.😅
The most intimidating moment in the entire franchise from 1976 to the very disappointing Creed 3 was when Ivan's arms did not move at all when Apollo hit his fists. In real life that is almost impossible as the person going DOWN on the fists has gravity, leverage, and momentum all on their side so the ONLY way that could happen is if you absolutely TOTALED them in strength. In real life Mike Tyson's hands would go down some (maybe not all the way though) if I was the one hitting them. If Apollo had had any brains, and his brain was destroyed by round 2 so at the start of round 1 he still had a brain, at least technically he would have surrendered the fight RIGHT THEN.
There is no way that of a referee. Whatever allow a fighter to be. Just punched in the face over and over again in the first round. The fight would have been stopped right away
Apollo Creed deserved a better send off than this. Always thought so, even when this first came out. It should have been a longer fight, maybe a little more even of a fight here. To just destroy him? It’s a disservice . Always thought so
It's great and I 100% understand why they cut it this way, and had Drago be so dominant. It works. The pacing is perfect. The violence is perfect. It's sudden and confusing, but ends with definitive tragedy. No need for more jabs or rounds. This made Drago the threat.
The general rule is that if a boxer can land ten or more consecutive punches, with his/her's opponent not punching back, the ref can rule the opponent as DEFENSELESS and stop the fight. So, this scene is totally fictional. No ref has ever witnessed that level of brutality and still allowed the fight to continue.
@@shermanmcclesky6882 You never watched Tommy Morrison vs Ray Mercer then. It's just as bad as this except that Tommy (RIP) didn't die in the ring, but he was completely out cold, caught in the ropes going down and Ray Mercer hit him something like 8 more times with Morrison absolutely out cold. Absolutely brutal and I still can't believe that Tommy was OK after that fight. That was Tony Perez who is widely credited as being the most incompetent referee in boxing history. He did just as bad of a job with Gerry Cooney vs. Ken Norton, Norton ate like 6 uppercuts laying against the ropes totally defenseless. And Cooney was a monster puncher too just like Ray Mercer.
I'm still sure that the film IP Man 2 adapts the Creed vs Drago match, where Drago is depicted as a big British boxer (Twister) who kills a kung fu master.
Big fan of Stallone, but....come on. Apparently that was the first boxing match in the history of boxing without a referee. The only chance to stop the fight was Rocky throwing in the towel? LOL.
I tell you one thing. There is no way in hell Creed would have kept fighting in real life. If that was a real boxing match, the referee would’ve consulted with a ringside physician, and the physician would’ve deemed that Creed had suffered too much damage, and the fight would’ve been called at that point.
For sure but I guess given it's Hollywood everything needs to be overly exaggerated at the cost of being realistic lol. If there was any way to try and justify it though, then maybe the rules for stopping fights were not as strict back when this film was made. I mean even the real fights throughout history would have been stopped way earlier in modern times. The last Ali vs Frasier fight for example (Thrilla in Manilla). That was a brutal and barbaric fight and became rather unpleasant to watch towards the end (despite the legendary fight status it has). Nowadays, that fight would have been stopped way earlier.
He wasn’t in his prime is pretty much what they’re indicating. Everyone’s going to be biased and say “he would’ve won if he was in his prime”, but he literally got killed, not just lost, but killed. Rocky won and wasn’t in his prime either. Apollo kept talking trash all day, before Rocky 3, people thought Apollo was the bad guy.
I watched this as a kid but now I just realized Drago would have been disqualified in the 2nd round for pushing the ref 😂 probably the first round too for punching after bell to end the round. We'll it's a movie with a story so what can I say.
Who will explain to me the scratch in the corner of Ivan Drago was a dark-skinned coach? There were no such coaches in the USSR🤣🤣🤣🤣, What a movie blooper
Apollos character is so stupid here 😂😂 from him saying to not stop the fight as if he’s even it, to his grunts of “NO!” Right before he dies, to his random butt twitches when he’s laying on the ground and supposed to be dead 😂😂😂😂 why would he be so suicidal when he had a family 😂
Apollo is the prime example of the saying "ego is what gets you into trouble & pride keeps you there."
Vegeta in a nutshell.
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It's funny cause I am very much like Apollo, so I understand where the character is coming from 100 percent
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"You will lose" is so mecanical. Adds to the machine like appearence of Drago. Stone cold. Nothing will ever compete with movies of the 80's ❤
80s movies suck compared to movies of today
right on. If Arnold wasn't used as the Terminator, then Dolph would've been a great 2nd choice. He was taller than Arnold too
@@diegomo1413movies of today are cashgrabs
There are movies of today lol. Cartoons? Superheroes confused about what's between their legs? Lol
Except the movies of the 90’s
Mr. Weathers... the world without you will NEVER be the same. Thanks for the iconic memories. You may be gone, but will NOT be forgotten and your legacy in our hearts will live on. Rest easy, brother 🥊💪💜🙏🇺🇲
Totally agree.
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I wish Stallone had tapped into some of this during the funeral: "He gave me my career ... when I lost it, he got it back for me ..." all sentiments he could have expressed about the character of Creed that would have really enhanced that scene. A decent director might have coaxed the performance out of him. Kidding.
Duke screaming "What's the matter with you guys, what are you guys doing?! This is supposed to be an exhibition, an EXHIBITION!" It comes across so raw and emotional, that part always stuck with me.
To me that reinforces Duke's want to protect Apollo the way a father would look after his son. ("Apollo was like my son. I raised him.")
@@J_Rossi εάν ψάχνεις για τον σωσία του, υπάρχει και είναι στην Αθήνα. θα ήταν ωραίο να τον ξαναδούμε σε κάποια ταινία ως δίδυμο αδελφό του, εκτός κιαν έχει δίδυμο αδελφό........
Yeah, he should have punched less hard and gone easier. Oh, wait, they were there to exhibit his ability.
@@kevinobrien9626 That's EXACTLY what he should have done. Obviously it's just a movie, but there would be no reason to be that agressive in an exhibition fight. There are no judges, and usually no declared winner. He would reserve that kind of punching for a professional bout.
@@bond1_mjblosser A guy who dissed him and said he'd flatten him with ease? I don't blame the other side for bringing it. Again, you 'exhibit' how hard you can hit by 'exhibiting' it.
R.I.P. Carl Weathers, Sylvia Meals, And Tony Burton!
Sylvia Lunches, I mean Meals
RIP Burt Young
And Burt Young
I don't think Stallone should have had Apollo Creed easily destroyed like this. The plot would have worked just as well if it were a later-round uppercut to the honker that finished him off after he had inflicted at least minor damage on Drago. It's too lopsided, and doesn't really make any sense, since Apollo and Rocky are supposedly equal as boxers. I think it disrespects the character.
Black dudes always get humiliated and disrespected in Hollywood movies, they always have to try and make them look weak.
As Eddie Murphy suggested in Raw, people in real life are probably smarter than to think everyone can be Rocky and take out an Apollo the way he did in the movie and illustrated it in spectacularly hilarious fashion how the real life fight would go.
Apollo was not well prepared for this fight, he was not in shape.
@@mohamedabdelfatah9120he was in fantastic shape. Just didn’t train properly for this fight, didn’t take it seriously and was much older and not in his prime.
Yeah baby
u only care about apollo because of the up to date movies, during that time pollo was jus another character
This is the first time I heard Apollo say “no” twice when Rocky was about to throw the towel.
I didn't catch it at first neither.
Rest in peace Mr. Weathers. That clip alone brought so many memories which are full of your majesty and glory. God bless your gentle soul good ser.
He will be missed
@@bighand1530 dearly indeed pal
If Rocky throwed the towel in that would of saved creed
This was not a Fight, this was an execution
Oh so that's what they understood when he said it's an exhibition
No sh*t!!!
@@recieve.believe3344 the "vs" in the title supposes this is a battle. But this is definitely not.
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My GOD!!! This hits so differently now!! 😢
Even more now than when I was a kid in the 80s.
We loved Apollo Creed and we loved the man who played him even more, Mr. Carl Weathers!
We all will miss you and you will never be forgotten.
1:47 ... That sound effect when Drago nails his first punch and the commentators reaction is 👌👌👌
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@DRAGO😊😊😊
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I love the Rocky movies but I mean cmon. How does it go from the Ref trying to stop the fight to being shoved by Drago and then he just sits there watching Appollo getting murdered LOL.
Наш красавчик🥰
В детстве когда смотрел болел за нашего Ивана💪
But in the real life. Drago is not russian.
Да, он швед
@@carlitos4007Dulph Lundren, swedish
I'm pretty sure just throwing in the towel wasn't going to stop Drago. Rocky kept beating himself up because of that, even to this day
Ага, даже несмотря на то, что фильм пытался преподнести нам его как бесчестного бойца
Apollo’s body twitching always gets me… 😢
That part used to give me chills.
It 'got' the crew as well. Carl Weathers improvised the move, and had people checking up on him: "Mr Weathers... you ARE ok, right ...?" He winked at 'em.
Appolo trained like a boxer
Drago trained like a monster 💀
Remember seeing this at the theater and thinking how genuinely scared I was for Apollo after the 1st round, especially seeing how his wife reacted to him. You just felt that something bad was gonna happen. RIP Carl Weathers
I would have danced my behind right out of that ring after he said "You will lose"
Thank god, carl weathers was picked to do Apollo Creed. He did very good to do the role. Rest in peace Carl weathers.
The look he gave his wife after the first round! He knew 😢
Yup. He knew when he told Rocky, “No matter what.”…twice.
She knew
el queria morir, era una forma de suicidarse, se sentia vacio, tipico caso de deportista que no sabe que hacer con su vida cuando todo acaba
Ego kills
By the way…At the expo event in Chicago.
I’ve met Carl Weathers before he passed…
I have a picture of him and Rocky next to each other.
I haven’t framed it yet.
I shook his hand and asked him; “when are they having the ‘Rocky’ anniversary party?
He responded; “young brother, they never tell me anything”
I’ve responded; “well , thank you for all of the memories. You’ll do great in ‘star wars’. Take care.”
RIP Carl Weathers
Now all I gotta do, is meet Rocky, Ivan and Adrian.
It’s sad that most of the cast, are gone. Be grateful for life.
“There is no tomorrow” - A.C.
This is quite the story. And James 4:13-14 comes to mind reading your last comment
The ref was supposed to stop the fight after apolo creed fail to fight back with so many punches on the face,thats is the rule in boxing
In the Rocky universe, boxers block punches with their heads.
@@jacks0n1991 I get it now
UFC rules lol not boxing
Have you ever seen a Rocky movie before? He would have gone 0-81
He actually attempted to separate Drago and Apollo but Drago threw him out of the way
God, I forgot how traumatizing this was to me when I was a kid. Rest in Peace Carl Weathers, we are all missing you.
Had no idea as a kid that this fight lasted only !!!5 MIN!!!
😢😢RIP APOLLO
This fight would have been over the minute ivan drago did not stop after the bell😂😂 its a clean DQ in real life
I think this cut is from the Rocky IV that Stallone re-released a few years ago, that made this fight a little longer and had Apollo do better. Still wish the character had never been killed off though.
The most emotional part for me is when he looked back at his wife , and the tears was welling in her eyes. It was like he wanted to look at her one last time and she knew it was about to get bad for him
That's the Apollo biggest problem - his pride.
He cant be live with such shaming loose against Drago.
Yep they both knew that was the last time they would see each other.
I saw this movie a hundred times when i was young. In the vhs era!
Sylvia Meals was such a great actress. RIP angel...
Let’s not forget Carl Weathers and Tony Burton!
Sylvia Lunches! I mean Meals
Burt Young as well
0:08 When I am about to have a game in Street Fighter with my friend.
Michael B Jordan must hate watching this scene.
Rocky kept that promise just like Apollo asked. He really wanted to stop that fight too!
RIP The Count of Montefisto.
Dat first punch 🥺🥺🥺🥺😢🫣
I am in my mid-40's now , still get emotional
Haha the way Drago stretching the nack and just waiting to kill him 😂
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*Moral of the story : If you know that you are going to lose, just jump too much and dance in the ring 😂😂😂😂😂😂 it will make you look like that you are not a novice* 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂to 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Carl weathers did the best imatation of ali put on film 100000000x better than will smith
This is pretty silly. Appollo's original trainer screaming, "throw in the towel!" He would have thrown Rocky in the ring with the towel or jumped in the ring to protect his fighter.😅
Its silly even to think there would be 2nd round.
It's a movie cmon guys
"YOU WILL LOSE" 😂😂😂
It actually totally respected the character (former fighter & also friend and the new Micky for Rocky) by raising the stakes for the rest of the film
Love the fighting 😅
2:04. Well, Duke did request that Apollo move.
The final eye contact between duo's like- you r next & from Rocky 'end get ready for the payback Drago. 🤜💥🤛
Apollo camouflages on the background and he still lost.
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Classic scene! Apollo the best!
Não tem outra igual melhor filme de boxing da história.
That Last Hit On Creed By Drago Was EPIC
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The most intimidating moment in the entire franchise from 1976 to the very disappointing Creed 3 was when Ivan's arms did not move at all when Apollo hit his fists. In real life that is almost impossible as the person going DOWN on the fists has gravity, leverage, and momentum all on their side so the ONLY way that could happen is if you absolutely TOTALED them in strength. In real life Mike Tyson's hands would go down some (maybe not all the way though) if I was the one hitting them.
If Apollo had had any brains, and his brain was destroyed by round 2 so at the start of round 1 he still had a brain, at least technically he would have surrendered the fight RIGHT THEN.
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Светлая память Карлу!
0:10 it was at this moment Apollo knew...he ****** up.
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😢Mary-Anne
R.I.P
There is no way that of a referee. Whatever allow a fighter to be. Just punched in the face over and over again in the first round. The fight would have been stopped right away
And yet people have died in boxing and I've seen worse non-stoppages in real life.
It was the 80s.
Then Rocky would have out in the first film:
His gloves didn't move an inch when he pounded on 'em, that should've already been scary 😖 sad that he also passed away irl, R.I.P Carl Weathers!
R.I.P. Carl Weathers
And they never talked about why he didn't threw the damn towel.
Les légendes bravos
Never underestimate your opponent.
After Apollo fell, he changed position of the arms 3 times
Good catch
Apollo Creed deserved a better send off than this. Always thought so, even when this first came out. It should have been a longer fight, maybe a little more even of a fight here. To just destroy him? It’s a disservice . Always thought so
War began. Rip Carl
"Well done drago, you just killed a golf legend. You know what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna dedicate my victory to chubbs' memory"
It's great and I 100% understand why they cut it this way, and had Drago be so dominant.
It works.
The pacing is perfect. The violence is perfect.
It's sudden and confusing, but ends with definitive tragedy.
No need for more jabs or rounds.
This made Drago the threat.
I like drago
R.I.P. Carl Weathers ❤️🙏
Kiss it where the sun don't shine.
Rest In Peace....
Right here the wrong was the referee cause he should have stoped the fight when Drago was using Apollo's head like a boxing bag
Drago should have been disqualified and the fight stopped after round one.
The general rule is that if a boxer can land ten or more consecutive punches, with his/her's opponent not punching back, the ref can rule the opponent as DEFENSELESS and stop the fight.
So, this scene is totally fictional. No ref has ever witnessed that level of brutality and still allowed the fight to continue.
@@shermanmcclesky6882 You never watched Tommy Morrison vs Ray Mercer then. It's just as bad as this except that Tommy (RIP) didn't die in the ring, but he was completely out cold, caught in the ropes going down and Ray Mercer hit him something like 8 more times with Morrison absolutely out cold. Absolutely brutal and I still can't believe that Tommy was OK after that fight. That was Tony Perez who is widely credited as being the most incompetent referee in boxing history. He did just as bad of a job with Gerry Cooney vs. Ken Norton, Norton ate like 6 uppercuts laying against the ropes totally defenseless. And Cooney was a monster puncher too just like Ray Mercer.
2:47 thats not even his call, or Creed’s lol
The board would never allow him to go to the 2nd round.
I'm still sure that the film IP Man 2 adapts the Creed vs Drago match, where Drago is depicted as a big British boxer (Twister) who kills a kung fu master.
“ if he dies , he dies “ RIP creed
Plot twist /alternate universe. Creed kills Ivan Drago in the ring.
Big fan of Stallone, but....come on. Apparently that was the first boxing match in the history of boxing without a referee. The only chance to stop the fight was Rocky throwing in the towel? LOL.
Is he the "S.O.B" in predator movie ?
Yes he is.
I know that phrase by arnald sound board prank call. 😁
DILLON!😁
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Drago vs. Clubber Lang......What a fight that would have been!
Lol gonna do that fight thanks for the idea.
I tell you one thing. There is no way in hell Creed would have kept fighting in real life. If that was a real boxing match, the referee would’ve consulted with a ringside physician, and the physician would’ve deemed that Creed had suffered too much damage, and the fight would’ve been called at that point.
For sure but I guess given it's Hollywood everything needs to be overly exaggerated at the cost of being realistic lol.
If there was any way to try and justify it though, then maybe the rules for stopping fights were not as strict back when this film was made. I mean even the real fights throughout history would have been stopped way earlier in modern times. The last Ali vs Frasier fight for example (Thrilla in Manilla). That was a brutal and barbaric fight and became rather unpleasant to watch towards the end (despite the legendary fight status it has). Nowadays, that fight would have been stopped way earlier.
Apollo couldn’t stand a chance fighting a universal soldier 😮😢😢
4:01 Jeez! still 30+ years later that moment just...Woah!
Could prime Apollo beat Drago? If so, how?
This scene is so satisfying to watch every time!
I bet troglodyte.
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I'm on the Brute Squad.
never watched any of the Rocky films, but I gotta ask. why are they so freaking drenched in water all the time? People don't sweat like that
Of course people sweat like that. Look at Patrick Ewing 😂
Plus they throw water onto them in between rounds.
That must be when his son adonis born while he’s fighting drago
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Rocky was to blame. Sometimes you help people even when they think they don't need help. Throw in the towel!!
Stick ‘m Drago. That creep, insulting you.
I always find it funny that everyone makes Apollo out to be like he's out of shape. Creed looked like he could still be champion with his physique.
He wasn’t in his prime is pretty much what they’re indicating. Everyone’s going to be biased and say “he would’ve won if he was in his prime”, but he literally got killed, not just lost, but killed. Rocky won and wasn’t in his prime either. Apollo kept talking trash all day, before Rocky 3, people thought Apollo was the bad guy.
Drago already threw off the ref, throwing the towel wouldn’t have magically stopped it
I watched this as a kid but now I just realized Drago would have been disqualified in the 2nd round for pushing the ref 😂 probably the first round too for punching after bell to end the round. We'll it's a movie with a story so what can I say.
Disqualified? He would have been put on trial for at least voluntary manslaughter. It's easily the dumbest thing in any of the Rocky movies.
He would have went light but Creed made it personal!
Лундгрен, конечно машина!
Who will explain to me the scratch in the corner of Ivan Drago was a dark-skinned coach? There were no such coaches in the USSR🤣🤣🤣🤣, What a movie blooper
It was suppose to be an exhibition!
You gotta hand it down to Stallone, where on earth did he find Dolph Lundgren. The guy is Terrifying!
*He is not a boxer, he is a punching bag* 😂😂😂😂😂 a living example of dancing punching bag,,,,😂😂😂😂😂😂(((RELAX GUYS, IT'S JUST A MOVIE))))))
Soviet fighters do this thing where they bounce back-and-forth in and out and looks nothing like the Way Drago is fighting
3:45 his wife's scream tho 😢
Apollos character is so stupid here 😂😂 from him saying to not stop the fight as if he’s even it, to his grunts of “NO!” Right before he dies, to his random butt twitches when he’s laying on the ground and supposed to be dead 😂😂😂😂 why would he be so suicidal when he had a family 😂