In 2018, three years after his disaster to "Totally" Ricky Conlan, Adonis Creed peels off 6 straight victories, ending up at ground zero of every a victory over Danny "Twofold" Wheeler to win the WBC World Heavyweight Championship. By and by a general star, Adonis proposes to his significant other, Bianca Taylor, who agrees to marry him. When Bianca suggests starting another concurrence in Los Angeles, Adonis is reluctant to leave Philadelphia as it would mean leaving Rocky.
Ivan Drago, the past Soviet warrior who butchered Adonis' father, Apollo Creed, in the ring thirty-three years sooner, sees an opportunity to recuperate lost significance after his 1985 hardship to Rocky Balboa: helped by sponsor Buddy Marcelle, Ivan pits his youngster, Viktor Drago, against Adonis. Exactly when Rocky won't support Adonis's decision to recognize Viktor's interest, Adonis leaves for Los Angeles.
Adonis and Bianca settle down in a sumptuous space in Los Angeles close to Adonis' consenting mother and Apollo's widow, Mary Anne. As they acclimate to their new life and plan for the top tier facilitate with Viktor, Bianca finds that she is pregnant. Adonis starts Tony "Little Duke" Evers, offspring of his father's mentor and later Rocky's tutor, in any case, overwhelmed with his life's progressing headways, he rushes into the match and is gravely hurt. Viktor is barred from hitting Adonis while he is down, empowering Adonis to hold the World Heavyweight Championship. Viktor ends up being very notable in Russia and wins a movement of fights with top charging.
His body and mental self-portrait broke, Adonis ends up being logically disconnected from Bianca. Mary Anne contacts Rocky, who obliges with Adonis and agrees to set him up for a rematch against Viktor, who is suffering terrible physical tests by his father. Bianca delivers a young lady, Amara, and Rocky is named her new parent. Adonis and Bianca learn Amara is nearly deaf, procured from her mother's dynamic degenerative hearing issue.
While Viktor affronts Adonis straightforwardly, he faces consistent load from his father, who acknowledges the contemplations of the media and diverse Russian delegates. At a state dinner, he and Ivan meet Ludmilla, his mother, and Ivan's ex, unprecedented for a long time after she gave up them after Ivan's incident to Rocky. Spurred at seeing his mother, Viktor reproves Ivan for his associations with the people who made them outcasts. Then, Rocky and Little Duke retrain Adonis in a run down territory in the California desert, focusing on doing combating from inside and setting up Adonis' body to acclimatize the considerable impact he will get from Viktor in the ring.
In Moscow, the rematch is altogether progressively balanced as a logically controlled and focused Adonis exchanges comparable blows with Viktor. Since Viktor is adjusted with winning by knockout, his fights have never propped up past the fourth round, which Adonis uses to facilitate his possible advantage as he continues on through Viktor's control, considerably after his ribs are broken. In the tenth round, Adonis delivers a large number of progressions of amazing blows and pounds Viktor down twice. Ludmilla leaves after the ensuing knockdown, upsetting Viktor, and Ivan wrestles with Viktor's earlier announcements. With Viktor exhausted, cornered, and getting various strikes without defending himself, anyway hesitant to go down, Ivan stops, giving up the fight to Adonis to guarantee his kid. Ivan ensures the furious Viktor it is okay that he lost, and handles him. As Bianca enters the ring to celebrate with Adonis and Little Duke, Rocky recuses himself, telling Adonis "it's your time", and plunks down to watch them from outside the ring.
Viktor and Ivan both train together back in Ukraine. Harsh goes to Vancouver to make amicability with his own estranged youngster, Robert, and meets his grandson Logan since, observing the sum he looks like Adrian. Adonis visits Apollo's grave where he makes amicability with his terminated father and the heaviness of carrying on his legacy, as he and Bianca present his granddaughter, who is wearing another course of action of listening gadgets.