'Creed 2' Has Found Its Drago Jr

Entertainment Weekly- The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children in Creed 2. While specifics on the next installment in the Rocky saga are still unknown, Sylvester Stallone confirmed on social media that the plot will have something to do with the son of Ivan Drago.

Florian Munteanu, a German-Romanian professional boxer, has been cast in the new role. “Congratulations to Florian ‘Big Nasty’ Munteanu for getting the part as IVAN DRAGOS son,” Stallone, who returns as Rocky Balboa in Creed 2, wrote on Instagram. “27 years old, 6 feet four, 245 pounds of talent.”

Welp. That’s the strongest man alive. Those are the biggest muscles ever. This guy is like the offspring of Ivan Drago and the high tech workout equipment he used in Rocky IV. Ol’ spikey hair stuck his missile in a Russian boflex and out popped homeboy here. The size difference between him and Michael B Jordan is going to be ABSURD, yet he’ll probably be a hell of a lot closer than Sly was to Dolph Lundgren:

I’m glad they’re going with a younger dude, because those rumors about Dolph Lundgren stepping into the squared circle with Adonis Creed in the sequel were worrisome. Creed was a pretty realistic, grounded film. The last thing I’d want for the sequel is for Creed to fight some kind of mutated Ivan Drago. Instead, we’ve got his son, and while that is a little schlocky, Hollywood-y, I could ABSOLUTELY imagine a boxing promoter trying to put this fight together if these characters really existed. It’s a storyline. The fight business runs on storylines.

I know some will be upset they didn’t go with Sage Northcutt, but let’s be honest…you expected this guy to act like an angry Russian?

Get real. Too happy. All the time, too happy.