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  1. nedhardy.com › 2022/08/19 › bloodsport-cast‘Bloodsport’ Cast: Where Are They Now? - Ned Hardy

    Aug 19, 2022 · Michel Qissi as ‘Suan Paredes’ Qissi was featured in Bloodsport as the fighter that Chong Li destroyed with a shin-shattering kick. Qissi immigrated to America alongside his childhood friend and castmate Jean-Claude Van Damme himself, and would appear later on as the primary antagonist Tong Po in Van Damme flick Kickboxer.

  2. www.maxim.com › entertainment › 10-bloodsport-facts10 Gut-Punching Facts About 'Bloodsport' on Its 30th ... - Maxim

    • Though It’S Billed as A True Story, It Probably Isn’T
    • JCVD Literally Kicked His Way Into The Role
    • JCVD Got Paid Peanuts For The Movie
    • Bolo Yeung, Who Played Villain Chong Li, Was Best Buds with Bruce Lee
    • Bloodsport Inspired Mortal Kombat
    • There Wasn’T A Single Stuntman in The Movie
    • But There Were Other Martial Artists
    • Donald Gibb, Who Plays Ray Jackson, Was Briefly in The NFL
    • Naturally, There’S A Remake in The Works

    The real-life Frank Dux, whose victory at the underground Kumite supposedly inspired Bloodsport, was probably lying about his exploits. That’s the conclusion the L.A. Times arrived at after an investigationinto his claims just a couple months after the movie hit theaters. “We have no recollection of such a tournament,” one martial arts expert told ...

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    Legend has it that Van Damme landed the lead role after spotting Menahem Golan, the head of schlocky action studio Cannon Films, on the streets of L.A. Screenwriter Sheldon Lettich told Slashfilm the story in 2016:

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    Though Bloodsportmade a ton of money, Van Damme didn’t see much of it. He only made $25,000, all of which he earned in this montage alone.

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    A former body building champ in Hong Kong, Yeung befriended the martial arts icon in the ’70s, and they soon became close friends. Yeung played Yang Sze in Enter the Dragon, which came out in 1979. In the decade between starring alongside Lee and taking on Van Damme, he became one of themost recognizable bad guysin Hong Kong cinema. But his turn as...

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    Ed Boon and John Tobias, the creators of legendary video game Mortal Kombat, were inspired in part by Bloodsport. In fact, Midway Games attempted to licenseVan Damme’s image for the game. When that fell though, Jean-Claude became Johnny Cage, who not coincidentally shares initials with the Muscles from Brussels.

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    Frank Dux told Buzzfeed that the budget didn’t allow for stuntmen to be cast, so producers made sure that everyone in the movie could take a punch. “Many of the guys had professional dance backgrounds,” he said.

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    Among the pro fighters in Bloodsport are Michel Qissi, a kickboxer who played the fighter Suan Paredes, and Paulo Tocha, a Muay Thai expert who played Paco. Tocha has credited the role withhelping to legitimize Muay Thai in the West. Both fighters would go on to appear with Van Damme in Kickboxer.

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    Best known as Ogre from Revenge of the Nerds, Donald Gibb provides some comic relief in Bloodsportas the hulking biker type Ray Jackson. Unlike the other participants in the Kumite, he doesn’t practice martial arts, relaying instead on his brute strength to crush dudes. It was that same brute strength that landed him with the San Diego Chargers for...

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    Given Hollywood’s obsession with recycling old ideas, it’s little surprise that a Bloodsport remake is in the works. What is surprising is that after being announced in 2011, we’re still waiting for it to hit theaters.

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  4. www.slashfilm.com › 543380How Did This Get Made: A Conversation With Frank Dux, The ...

    Mar 24, 2016 · What follows is a conversation with Frank Dux, who was the real-life inspiration behind the movie Bloodsport. Please note as always his opinions, recollections and claims are his own, and not...

  5. www.mentalfloss.com › article › 53266810 Kick-Ass Facts About Bloodsport | Mental Floss

    • IT’S BASED ON A TRUE STORY ... MAYBE. Bloodsport is allegedly inspired by the real-life exploits of martial artist Frank Dux (pronounced “dukes”). His story was originally told in a Black Belt Magazine article, which chronicled claims that Dux—who also supposedly took part in covert missions in Southeast Asia for the CIA in the 1980s—infiltrated a secretive, no-holds-barred martial arts tournament known as the “Kumite” to take down the criminal organization that oversaw the fight.
    • THE WRITER KNEW IT WAS BASED ON A LIE, BUT WANTED TO MAKE A MOVIE ANYWAY. Screenwriter Sheldon Lettich first met the real-life Dux when his agent needed help cutting down Dux’s unpublished Vietnam War novel, The Last Rainbow.
    • THERE ARE A NUMBER OF STORIES ABOUT HOW JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME LANDED THE LEAD. Van Damme, who’s real name is Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg, moved to Los Angeles from his native Belgium in the early 1980s, only to hold a series of short-term, menial jobs—including driving a limo, delivering pizzas, and working in a carpet factory—with the hopes of using his martial arts talent to break into the movie business.
    • DUX CLAIMED HE WROTE THE MOVIE HIMSELF. Dux said the idea for Bloodsport was taken from an original script he wrote called “Enter the Ninja” (not to be confused by the other Cannon Films, Menahem Golan-directed karate classic Enter the Ninja), written under the pseudonym “Benjamin Wolf.”

  6. nedhardy.com › 2023/11/07 › michel-qissiWhatever Happened to Michel Qissi, ‘Tong Po’ From Kickboxer?

    Nov 7, 2023 · When he's not writing, he's probably wondering how Frank Dux got 52 consecutive knockouts in a single tournament. It's hard to believe it's been over 30 years since martial artist and actor Michael Qissi burst onto the scene as the intimidating Muay Thai champion Tong Po in the cult classic Kickboxer.

  7. www.horrorgeeklife.com › 2021/02/08 › exclusiveExclusive: Director Sheldon Lettich Celebrates 'Lionheart' 30 ...

    Feb 8, 2021 · But I pretty much let Van Damme, Michel Qissi, and Frank Dux come up with the actual fight moves. The fight with Sonny, played by Jeff Langton, was choreographed to be a longer and much more elaborate fight, but Van Damme came up with the idea of just giving him one punch to the nuts, which turned out to be one of the most memorable moments in ...

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  9. www.tvguide.com › movies › bloodsportBloodsport - Full Cast & Crew - TV Guide

    29 Metascore. 1988. 1 hr 32 mins. Drama, Suspense, Action & Adventure. R. Watchlist. Where to Watch. A portrait of Frank Dux, the first Westerner to win the Kumite, a deadly martial-arts...