Clubber Lang was Black Excellence for the first half of Rocky III

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WOAHMYGOODNESS said:
they never mentioned him again after he lost, nikka had no more fights?
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James "Clubber" Lang - Rocky Wiki
Little more is known about this character. Before Rocky´s first fight against him, he is introduced as being from Chicago, (his nickname is "The Southside Slugger"). But according to his bio in Rocky: The Ultimate Guide, James Lang was orphaned at an early age, and spent most of his childhood in the streets of Chicago, orphanages and juvenile facilities. Later as an adult, Clubber was placed in prison for five years for a low crime, but during his time being served he discovered boxing as a way to let out his frustrations, which leads to the events of Rocky III.
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found this from a q&a with Stallone
What happened to Clubber Lang? Did he become a boxing analyst or perhaps a televangelist after finding God?
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In the last ROCKY I had written an elaborate storyline for Mr. T (AKA Clubber Lang,) which was reminiscent of George Foreman, who became a ringside analyst. In the script he was doing blow-by-blow commentary and also talking about his new profession of being an evangelist in the making. I thought it was wonderful because he was describing what it was like to fight Rocky Balboa while Rocky was fighting someone else. Unfortunately we couldn’t meet the actor’s financial requirements because we didn’t have enough money to buy fax paper, so I replaced him with HBO commentator Max Kellerman.

Ivan Drago I always believed went back to Russia where he was scorned and badgered into a position of disgrace and eventually succumbed to alcoholism and unfortunately then suicide.

As for Tommy Gunn, he was exposed as being a project that would never be fully developed as a man and also succumbed to a life of a mediocre fighter barn storming around the country and eventually transforming himself into Tommy ‘Boom Boom’ Gunn, second rate wrestler performing exclusively in the Midwest in third rate venues.

Apollo Creed, after his death had a very successful comeback in DAWN OF THE DEAD. But you’ll be hard pressed to recognize him because of severe decomposition.

And as for Adrian, she’s still working in that great pet shop in the sky waiting for Rocky to return.
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I don't know about longest reigning champ he threw nothing but looping punches. Then again thhe era of HW's in the Rocky universe, must've been the equivalent of the current state of the HW division in our reality.
 
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Clubber Lang was basically a bigger, stronger, hungrier version of Balboa. Them dudes damn near had the same style. Balboa wanted no parts of a rematch & I don't blame him. Lang would have adjusted.
 
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