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Adonis Creed vs Damian Anderson, billed as Battle for Los Angeles, was a heavyweight championship fight for the Heavyweight title that took place on January 18, 2023. The evil Diamond Anderson had recently won the belt from Felix Chavez and Creed came out of retirement to face of Anderson after a public dispute happened at Anderson's party. The fight was heavily built up to as both boxers were childhood friends. Unlike professional fights, the fight took place at Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles, California. After 11 excruciating rounds, Adonis was able to pull out a win by knock out Anderson and reclaim the Heavyweight championship.

Background[]

Adonis Creed and Damian Anderson were childhood friends from downtown Los Angeles. After a local fight, Anderson was arrested and went to jail while Adonis went on to become Heavyweight champion with the help of Rocky Balboa.

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Anderson training for the fight

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Adonis jogging across L.A.

After Damian mocked him on live TV and challenged him to a fight, Donnie decides to come out of retirement and challenges Dame for the championship, which he accepts. Heading to a unmarked place to train, he begins a sparing match with Little Duke and a recovered, reformed Viktor Drago. Traumatized by his past with Dame, Adonis starts to lose focus and lose his sparring match with Drago. Meanwhile Anderson went on to train heavily and studied Adonis past fights to study his moves. The fight was scheduled to take place at Dodgers Stadium, a rare occasion in the boxing world, the fight was called "Battle for Los Angeles" due to both boxers being from L.A. This was Damian's first title defense as well. Felix Chavez, who has since recovered from his fight was in attendance.

The Fight[]

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Creed and Anderson zone out the audience to keep focus on each other

The fight is easily more grueling and evenly matched compared to Damian's fight to Chavez. Both boxers had advantage of the situation they were in by the end of the fist bell, both fighters were relatively OK. During the fight Adonis and Dame blurred out the surrounding crowd and imagined it was just the two of them. In a grueling, evenly-matched affair, Donnie has visions of his abusive foster home and Dame's life in jail.

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Adonis Creed knocks out Damian Anderson with a final blow

Both fighters started to heavily inflict damage to each other. This fight went on until the tenth bell ranged. Adonis started to regain his focus during the start of the 12th round. As both fighter trade jabs, Adonis attempts to hit him in the face only for Anderson to duck and deliver a punch to Adonis's stomach, knocking him down. Adonis is able to beat the countdown and the fight resumes. Adonis is able to study Anderson movements and starts using this to his advantage was able to maneuver Anderson's throws. With each duck, Adonis is able to fight back and knocks Damian down for the first time in his career. Damian is unable to beat the count like Ivan Drago and Adonis wins the battle and reclaims the Heavyweight title.

Aftermath[]

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Adonis celebrates his victory with his wife and daughter

After the fight, Adonis goes to the locker room where Dame is recovering and the two have a heart to heart conversation. The two best friends reconcile. Donnie later joins Bianca and Amara in the ring in the empty stadium, where he pretends to box with Amara. After that they then head home. It is unknown what happened to Anderson after he lost the title to Creed. With winning the title in his first bout since coming out of retirement, Adonis was cemented as one of the greatest boxers in history and Rocky Balboa and Apollo Creed would be proud of him.

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