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Not too sly or slick for that matter, poor Sylvester Stallone broke his neck while filming a fight scene in his latest movie, “The Expendables.” He was rushed into emergency surgery and had a metal plate inserted in his neck.
The 63-year-old Hollywood action hunk was filming a fight with co-star wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin, 45.
Sly told FHM magazine:

“Man, it was seven guys, kicking each other’s ass, one guy tougher than the next. No joke, our stunt guys were begging for mercy…actually, my fight with Stone Cold Steve Austin was so vicious that I ended up getting a hairline fracture in my neck. I’m not joking…I haven’t told anyone this, but I had to have a very serious operation afterwards. I now have a metal plate in my neck.”

The film is about a team of mercenaries headed to South America on a mission to overthrow a dictator. The flick features a who’s who of veteran action actors:
Arnold Schwarzenegger, 62, Bruce Willis, 54, Dolph Lundgren, 52, Mickey Rourke, 57, Jet Li, 46 and Jason Statham, 37.
The film also stars Brittany Murphy, who died in December of a heart attack.

Stallone wrote the script and directed the movie.
He said:

“Bruce’s character, who hires me to do the job the film’s based on, turns to me and says, Look, there’s one person I need to talk with before I give you the job… At which point Arnold, who plays my oldest rival, walks out. And it’s clear we have a lot of history there. So I tell him I should have shot him a long time ago when I had the chance…And the scene goes from there. But man, those guys were up for it…They got out of bed at 5.30am just to shoot a small five-minute scene.”

Sly was also badly hurt by Dolph Lundgren when he filmed Rocky IV.
He said:

“Dolph and I always went for it. I gave him orders to try to knock me out while the cameras were rolling. At one point, he hit me so hard on the head I felt my spine compress…He then hit me with an almighty uppercut. That night my chest started to swell, and I had to be helicopter-ambulanced from my hotel to a nearby emergency room…I was told that Dolph had punched my rib cage into my chest, compressing my heart. If it had swollen any more, I would have died…After that, I was like, Dolph, it’s only a movie, bro.”