I wondered what became of Ivan Drago after his boxing days were over.
Masked burglars abandoned a robbery after discovering the home they had targeted in southern Spain belonged to Dolph Lundgren, the action hero who played opposite Sylvester Stallone in Rocky IV.
A team of armed robbers broke into the star’s villa on the Costa del Sol, tied up his wife, who was home alone, and terrorised her into handing over cash and jewellery.
But they cut short their raid on the luxury property in the hills above Marbella after recognising the actor in a family photograph in one of the bedrooms.
A source told Spanish media: “Things might have turned out very differently if Dolph had been at home.
“The criminals fled as soon as they realised the owner of the house they had raided was someone they wouldn’t want to come up against in a fight.”
The Swedish actor, who is 6ft 5in tall and has a black belt in Karate, rose to fame with his role as Russian boxer Ivan Drago in the fourth of the Rocky films.