 and rocky feels guilty because in this part never made sense to me rocky didn't throw in the towel that would have stopped the fight but drago already threw the ref out of the way so i don't know what a towel would have done you think drago would have stopped pummeling apollo creed into oblivion no right he was helped by killing the man the towel wouldn't have done anything but anyway rocky feels guilty about this it's kind of like the whole premise of the movie where then he feels that he has to avenge apollo so then the soviets the soviets at the time they say okay uh we'll give you a fight