Gird your loins and crack open a La Croix because the new trailer for Creed 2 just dropped and it will leave you absolutely wanting more. This new spot for the forthcoming sequel in the Rocky saga apparently tells the story of a young man who is gravely allergic to wearing a shirt.
Michael Bae Jordan, who is still looking ripped, ready, and riiiight after last summer's Black Panther, appears in various forms of undress while Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson, and Phylicia Rashad try to convince him not to fight Victor Drago's son Ivan Drago.
One of the great things about this trailer is that it truly captures the many different forms of shirtlessness.
Here's Michael Bae giving you pensive but shirtless.
He has many thoughts but zero shirts. Praise be.
Here's airborn and shirtless Michael Bae. So little gravity. Even less shirt!
Here's Michael Bae as Kylo Ren.
The shirtlessness is strong with this one.
At one point, Michael Bae takes his shirtlessness to the desert and, let me tell you, like sands through the hourglass, this is the thirst of my life.
Rocky hits him with a ball which is, I guess working out. I really don't know. But I'm here for it.
And then there's THIS:
Haha, wow. I gotta clock out. See y'all tomorrow.
Here's me after watching the resolutely shirtless Creed 2 trailer:
Pummeled by thirst but ready to get back in the ring and do it again.
R. Eric Thomas is a columnist for ELLE.com, where he skewers politics, pop culture, celebrity shade, and schadenfreude. He is also the author of Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America, a memoir-in-essays.
