Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone still vividly remember their rabid rivalry.

The elder statesmen of high-octane Hollywood action famously competed throughout the 80s and 90s and sat down to dish on the extreme lengths they went to for a joint interview released Tuesday titled TMZ Presents: Arnold & Sly: Rivals, Friends, Icons .

As soon as I saw him, it was like, Bang, two alphas hitting, Stallone told moderator and TMZ founder Harvey Levin. If we walked into a party, wed be staring at each other for a few seconds, and then, I got to get that guy. He didnt do anything wrong, but he will.

While Stallone said Schwarzeneggers rise helped motivate him, and the Terminator star agreed Stallone was very helpful as someone he could chase after, Schwarzenegger admitted he started this whole thing by saying stupid things and being competitive.

It was kind of like, Well, what was your body fat? he recalled asking Stallone. And I was down to 7%, so I said I was down to 10%. So it became a competition with the body. Then he started using machine guns that were huge machine guns.

I was running after him, Schwarzenegger continued. He was not running after me. So I said, when we did Predator you got to get a machine gun that is normally mounted on a tank or in a helicopter I said I got to have a bigger machine gun than he used in Rambo.

Their competition had started much earlier at the 1977 Golden Globes , however, when Stallones Rocky won Best Film after Schwarzenegger claimed the New Actor of the Year award for Stay Hungry. Stallone said that he lost it when Rocky won.

I literally went and picked up this entire bouquet of flowers and tossed them straight up in the air, sort of aiming toward [Schwarzeneggers] side of the table, he said. And it all comes down, hes sort of sitting there [thinking] [Stallone] just threw down the gauntlet.