John's Hospital in Santa Monica, where he remained in intensive care for four days. It was discovered that his blood pressure was over 200, and he had to be flown on a low-altitude flight from Vancouver, Canada to St. Later that night, he had difficulty breathing and was taken to a nearby emergency room. After doing three takes of Rocky taking shots to ribs, Stallone felt a burning in his chest, but ignored it. Sylvester Stallone decided that for the shooting of the fight, he and Dolph Lundgren should hit one another for real, so as to increase the intensity of the scene.
