Ohio State loses "The Game" two years in a row and all of a sudden, I wanna fight Ryan Day!? 🤷🏿‍♂️ Rocky IV (11/27/85) was considered predictable and divisive when it first debuted. But did we listen to the critics?! Fuck no!!! Couldn't have. Because it's the most commercially successful film of the franchise, and it was the most commercially successful sports film of all time, until it was was surpassed by The Blindside. Music ("Ava's Dad (Interlude)"/"DON'T PLAY LIKE THAT") by FREE.