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One fateful Christmas Day in the mid 1980's, a recoverying heavyweight boxer by the name of Rocky Balboa defeated newcomer Ivan Drago in an epic boxing match in Moscow, USSR.

How would the world be different if Drago beat Balboa instead? He was, after all, younger and arguably in better shape. The Balboa-Drago bout was probably the most famous confrontation of the Cold War. Arguably, this contest was the breaking point for the Soviet Union.
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