Bloodsport (Part 1) - Getting The Dux Of The Story In A Row - The Reel Story
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- Опубліковано 27 лют 2023
- #bloodsport #kumite #martialarts
I had wanted to get this out before the 35th Anniversary this past Sunday, but the whole famn damily has been sick, and so it is a couple of days late....but part 1 is here!
Bloodsport was my favorite movie growing up. The idea of this being a true story, a guy going and winning an underground martial arts tournament where there are no rules and people were fighting to the death was something I was fascinated by. As the years have ticked on the man that the movie is based off of, Frank Dux, has been the center of many controversies due to his increasingly grandiose claims...both attached to this movie and otherwise.
The debates on whether or not the events of this movie actually happened have been intense on both sides. So join me as I take a stroll through the minefield of Frank Dux's claims and his detractors, let's dive deep and find out The Reel Story!!
00: - 4:00 Intro
4:00 - 11:00 - Beginnings Of The Movie, And The Dux
11:00 - 15:05 - Frank Dux vs Vic Moore vs Reality
15:06 - 27:20 - "He says Senzo Tanaka is his Shidoshi..." (A Brief History of The Black Dragons and John Keehan)
27:21 - 29:00 - "Who the hell are these two scumbags?"
29:00 - 30:05 - Enter The Giant Elephant
30:06 - 31:22 - "You look like a Jackson..."
31:23 - 34:41 - Dim Mak-ing Stuff Up?
34:43 - 40:42 - "Hajime!"
40:43 - 41:35 - Outro/Credits
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Clips From-
"Bloodsport" - Cannon Films
"Put Up Your Dux" - Shoreline Entertainment
"The Search For Count Dante" - Floyd Webb
"Grandmaster Moore: The Man That Fought Em' All" - Thinnman Entertainment
All music clips sourced from - www.epidemicsound.com/music/
Special thanks again to all clips/resources used in the creation of this video! - Розваги
I'm 41 and was lucky enough to see bloodsport in a theater. Nobody cared who Frank Duex was or thought for one second Bloodsport was a true story. It was 1988. People weren't that naive. The only thing moviegoers were talking about in 1988 was who is that Jean Claude guy, and when is his next movie coming out!!!!
And rightfully so, JCVD is a treasure lol
Bro I’m 45 and I was also, and your so right I wanted to be jean Claude van damme so bad a a kid. We were blown away when we found out the Kumite wasn’t real. Gosh darn internet has ruined so many of my fantasies. Lol
The internet giveth and taketh when it comes to fantasies lol. I'm only a few years younger than ya'll but I never got the chance to see it in theaters since I was still a real little guy, JCVD was a real life superhero to me in the 90's also. But if I could time machine back to the 80's at will, seeing this on opening night would be one of the first things I'd do.
@@ReelStory haha so true.
I was 14, we watched it at the drive in. That movie is directly responsible for countless Canadian youth sloppily kicking the ever loving sense out each other in backyards, bushes, and schoolyards from coast to coast.. For that alone it deserved a National Film Board award.
Frank Dux is a reliable source of information somewhere between a Magic 8 Ball and a Chinese fortune cookie.
The fortune cookie reference is pretty apropos actually. They originated in America but are served in Chinese restaurants giving them the appearance of having real Asian culture but not actually having much.
This movie had it all: awesome villian, awesome hero, awesome best friend charecter and a blond love interest. Perfect.
I keep waiting for a clip from Tropic Thunder.
"THIS IS, FLAMING DRAGON!!!"
😂😂😂
Wahaha
My favorite thing I have learned while examining Dux is how all these martial artists who back him up are a bunch of fucking carnys too.
Agreed lol I didn’t realize until I started digging that soooo many of these “masters” are just grifting
1 giant circle jerk.😂
The Mentos bit is brilliant
Bloodsport isn’t a guilty pleasure, it’s just a sick movie.
Bloodsport is Life bro
You are spot on my friend
Because... brick not hit back!
20:03 Count Dante was the world’s most dangerous hairdresser🧛🏼♂️🥋✂️💈
This video was great! But the MVP award goes to the editing! The clips that were put in from different movies and shows are hilarious. 😂
Thank you very much! My editing is definitely the thing that has come the furthest as far as the stuff that goes into making these so I really appreciate that!
"Sometimes it's hard to fail the test, knowing that you gave your best. That guy you barely know is in hospital for a week and that girl you just met, kinda yelled at you one tiiiiime!"
I always forget Forrest Whitaker was in this
Sir, a standing ovation to this amazing breakdown!
Thanks to the algorithm overlords for bringing this fine vid review to my feed 👏
Also shout out to that Mentos commercial! 😎👌 We could have used that in the '90s.
Thank you very much! I’m so glad you enjoyed it!
@@ReelStory for sure ! I'll watch part 2 soon .
@@theironforce3000 if you liked the Mentos bit I think you will really enjoy the end of part 2 😄
The cutaway animation, video clips, and humor in this video is incredible. Awesome timing in the narration, thanks for putting so much work into this video.
Thank you very much!
this just got better as it went. Thank You for the Mentos
Unbelievable I never knew that guy played tong po also but I recognised him from somewhere. I watch both movies one after another. I was a massive jcvd fan as a kid. But it was before the internet so I just believed the end credit text about frank dux. I have read and watched loads about F D since but this is actually the most enjoyable video on the subject I have seen. Your presentation is excellent. I actually don’t see bloodsport or any of JCVD films up the quest. Films like cyborg, universal soldier and time cop are absolute classics. Bloodsport is a fantastic leave your brain at the door and enjoy movie. Thank you for making this video, it really spoke to the 15 year old me that was fascinated with the idea of a superhuman. I still admire Frank Dux in part !!!
Thank you very much! I was the same way after I saw this when I was younger, I believed every bit of it and wanted to believe this dude existed and that maybe someday I'd get to see these death matches IRL. Then the internet came and dashed all that away lol! But despite the fact that I dunked on him for nearly 2 hours, I do also actually like Frank as well. He's a bullshit artist but there's an art in his bullshit.
@@ReelStoryyou've shocked me I really thought that this contest was real as possible
The Dutch cameo is epic. lol
Always loved this movie! Never knew any of the history behind it. Great research and obvious the time spent put into this. Can’t wait to watch Part 2!
Thank you! It was a challenge but also some of the most fun I've had with this channel so far. Part 2 will be out ASAP it is in production!
@@ReelStory looking forward to it. Keep up the good work my Dude!
@@rettoPotter1 thank you so much! I really appreciate it 🙂
Bong Soo Han R.I.P 🥋 Grandmaster #1 Bow. I have to pay respect sorry.
I never get tired of people shitting on this guys 😂
I love the guy, I miss the days where a good line of bullshit could carry you throughout a lifetime!! The internet was the end of an era.
I like your content, are you making more? Of did I got subscribe in vane?
Thank you very much I really appreciate it! Yes there is definitely more content coming! The video that I’m working on now was a much bigger undertaking than I had originally planned, and I’ve also been researching for a future video on Spartacus. My regular day job and my kids crazy summer schedules have made me busier than I expected the last couple of months but the next one will be out soon. Stay tuned and thank you for the sub 🙂
😂😂😂
The internet might encourage some bs but it also makes it difficult to BS people 😂. Someone will research
@@TheSquad4life In an ideal world ALL information would be available, not censored.
Great video! Always loved Bloodsport growing up and believed the "true story" it was based on as a kid. In my teens and as an adult learning about it's potential fabrication I also found interesting if not a bit disappointing. And then in the years later finding out the strange coincidences that there might be some truths to Duke's claims, or at least coincidental parallels was even more fascinating. Through my years of incremental research and dabbling whenever the subject came up, I never really found a concise, thorough line of what's true and what's false. I'm sure there's other deep dives out there, but this is the first video that I found that really touches bass on everything. Thank you so much for this, instant sub for me
Thank you so much! I really appreciate that!
Back in Southern California way before Technology in this culture there was a very pervasive 'Fish Story' with Story after Story building and growing these Legends and getting High on your own Hype even amongst the most humble of Martial Artists, their students and Bystanders. With the Fish growing longer and fatter and more mean with each retelling 😅
Love the way you put this together one of my favourite movies to I can't believe the guy from kickboxer is that guy
Thank you! Yeah that blew me away when I first connected those dots too
Wait. So his 0.0000001 knockout time was fake? Damn. Makes me think if he even won that karate champ arcade game against the cross eyed dude.
Maybe all this time he really meant that he achieved all of these career stats and records in that arcade game….?
There's a bit of a story behind the karate champ arcade game in this movie, the colors are apparently different from every known romset of this game.
Algorithm did me a solid here, great content dude
Thank you very much!
Oh i cant wait for this lmao strapping in, got my snacks, lets go 😂
Good stuff man, I love Frank Dux analysis, I feel like most martial artists have known he was a fraud at least since the early 2000s when the internet started to overshadow articles in magazines but no one has said much about it the last 20 years. Now it seems like everyone is talking about it for some reason. Not sure why, but I like it. This was entertaining. Thanx
Thank you! I really appreciate that! Yeah he seems to have come back into the scene a bit more recently. I think some of it is Sheldon Lettich giving out interviews to promote his book and bringing it back into the fold and some of it is probably to do with The Last Kumite too. I bet he never anticipated his biggest fight to be with the internet haha. One thing I underestimated was just the sheer number of people who STILL believe him, it’s truly astonishing.
Well bloodsport was a documentary so what's the issue
Sensei Dux has no reason to lie
Epic history and review of this film! Love it! P.s. that was a picture of Taekwondo master Hee il cho... not Bong Soo Han. Although Cho was around and influential in California too, but in LA. Fun fact Cho appears in bloodsport 2 and 3 haha.
Thank you very much!
Dude....your editing is top tier. 👌
Thank you very much!
The Muay Thai fighter in Bloodsport is an actual fighter and trainer named Paulo Tocha. He would have absolutely melted Frank Dux or JCVD in a match 💫
Truth. Tocha was a bad MF
Van damme was also a real fighter he has a very good record tbf.
Not saying he would win tho but he was legit
Maybe, but Brian Bosworth melted him
Van Damme also regularly sparred with Dennis Alexio, his kayfabe brother in Kickboxer.
Van Damme was legit.
Tocha was/is legit..
The intro is classic
Salute
Great video. One of my favorite subjects
Great summary... you deserve more subs. Thanks for the entertainment
Thank you very much for the kind words! I truly appreciate that. It is sometimes seemingly a monumental task to break through YT's formula to be seen, but I am happy for every one I get!
Excellent commentary. F'n sense of humor is on point
Thank you so much!
Great, well researched video, and an easy sub 😄
Thank you!
"Frank handles him like a prison b**** with koolaid on his lips" - greatest quote in YT history.
I'm 35, and this is my all time fav movie, my father and I would watch this on reply so much!
As a kid I fucking loved this movie!!!! And btw I still do!
There's a lot of information in this video that other videos just gloss over or speed past. Even though I've heard the story before this puts some things in a new light. Kudos!
Thank you so much that’s exactly what I hope to do so it’s great to hear I hit the mark!
i like napoleon, blownaparts video on it
@@hakirby I'm a big fan of Nap as well, his work is excellent and he's a super nice guy too. When he announced he was doing a Dux video I had just completed mine and I contacted him to offer any assistance I could be of with his research process. I didn't expect him to respond but he not only did, he also had some really complimentary things to say to a relative rookie in this game. Gave me some serious confidence and I'll always be grateful for that!
That mentos parody is top notch. Saw this on a facebook reel and shared it a while back, exactly 0 friends haha'd it. Man i need new friends.
We all do...lol
I love the research that was done. My bro went to Frank’s’ school and was not impressed. He had to sign a contract that made him responsible for paying for six months no matter what happened in or out of class. In less than a month my brother got hurt by one of the veterans of the class and talked to Frank whose only concern was that my brother still has to pay for those 6 months.
Thank you! I’m genuinely not surprised Frank would have a clause like that at all. In today’s world if he were still teaching I am sure there would be a signed NDA required before he would work with anyone.
28:52 That was amazing. I haven't seen a mentoz commercial in forever and GD it, that movie scene is a perfect fit.
Small point, but your picture of Bong Soo Han is actually Hee Il Cho from the film "Best of the Best."
The score is nothing less than a god damn masterpiece.
28:46 LMAO I haven’t heard this in years. So many memories seeing these commercials as a kid.
Great video! Ooos sensei !
This totally makes me want to watch this movie. I haven't seen this in years.
To be honest, it should be in your regular rotation.
This channel is highly understood 💯
Great video
To compensate for the computational and memory limitations of the era, the Apollo Guidance Computer used Kumite math. And also Frank was in the LEM's trunk on Apollo 11.
I had the "Dim mak" booklet! 😂 my dad bought it when he was a teenager and he gave me all of his books when I became a teen.
That’s so awesome! 😂 I try and get a little something at the end of each of my videos as a token of completion and that was it for this video, I treated myself to the paperback just so I could say that I have it lol.
Easily the best retelling of the most realistic and amazing true story ever put on the silver screen.
The secret to telling a believable lie, stick as close to the truth as possible. As corny as Bloodsport was, especially watching it nowadays, it inspired a lot of people to become better martial artists.
just found your channel, subbed
7:49 he kinda resembles Van Damme when he was Young lol
Looks like the kid from the movie. Cyall tha cyaps kid.
Wow it’s amazing to think this movie was actually based on a true story, dux must have been some fighter, I can’t believe he didn’t do any martial arts tournaments but I guess the guy was a real warrior
Most legit badass that ever existed in the history of no holds barred fighting.
For any of those doubters, I just refer them to the closing credits of the movie.
Checkmate.
What!? Lmao I almost believed you were serious for a moment!
@@DukeRhodes 100% mate, it’s there in writhing for any jelouse doubter to see, hell the man basically wrote the book on all CIA tactics, there’s even rumours that he taught SAS and delta but frank is very humble and keeps such things to himself
@@DukeRhodeslol...
We all must remember, Van damnne, was almost the predator lol. Nice video. Easy sub
Thank you!
Nook soo kow nook soo kow........get him Kurt!!!
That Mentos commercial!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I have loved this movie since I was a kid whenever it was released in 1988 I believe it was.
I always thought and still do believe that the reason Chong Li broke Parades' leg was to show his superiority of strength by snapping the known steel hard shins of a muay thai fighter.... perhaps I'm over thinking it but it could be the message he was trying to send by finishing the kickboxer in such a brutal fashion
Never thought of it that way before but I like it!
Looking at dux posing next to his trophy, I gotta wonder.....how the HELL are the weight classes divided at this Kumite? Does heavyweight start at 170 pounds? Why have we never heard of the Cruiserweight champion?
Frank was also the cruiserweight champion he would win the heavyweight matches drop to 130 and win the cruiser then drop again to 90 to win the welterweight. Then he’d put the weight back on
@@ReelStory So he won the heavyweight title, then shaved off the mustache?
Exactly. As massive as Franks head has gotten over the years that mustache carries a tremendous amount of weight
He bought the trophy for himself. And the real Dux got knocked out with 1 punch in a bar fight which he started with Zane Frazier, a real tough guy that fought in the first UFC
Its a great movie but the idea of a karate guy winning the tournament against boxers, muay thai fighters and wrestlers is hilarious
Never took this movie that seriously as a kid but still enjoyed the hell out of it! Thought it was just a tournament that someone embellished a bit too much to make the movie more entertaining.
5:46 holy hell that's Forest Whitaker! I watched this movie 100 times as a kid and never realized. Crazy
Grew up on bloodsport absolutely great movie love the storyline diffrent countries fighting in underground tournaments what more do you want in a movie
As a kid, we made fun of this movie, especially because it was Van Dam who was kind of the douche of martial arts movies at the time. Great video tho, cheers!
This was excellent and Blood Sport is one of the best movies ever made. It has everything.
lol the kitty litter @6:46
When I was a kid (86-90) I spent my after school time in one dojo or another. I did taekwondo because of a girl, the Sabom was her father😢) when I realized she wasn't going to be in class I moved to "Black Belt Karate" because I wanted to learn how to use the Sai because of the coolest turtle. After doing Karate for about a year and a half I moved and found a Hung Ga school anyway this went on for years, but in all that time I never had an issue about training in other arts.
Raphael is objectively the coolest turtle. 👍🏻
@@ReelStory Did we just become best friends 😜
Why didnt Ray yell NERDS but they shouldve had him with his football jersey on from nerds to see will fans notice , but good movie it will go down as the movie that C.V.D
Ogre...lol
So you are telling me Frank Dux is really a Jewish guy that made the entire story up and also did the most blasphemous thing I’ve ever heard of… which is stealing Bruce Lee’s Enter the Dragon script?
I don’t believe it. 😂😂
Great vid!
I once saw Frank Dux kill 3 men in a bar with a chopstick...a chopstick! Or was it a chapstick? Either way it's based on a true story...
I think that might have been a deleted scene…
“ he’s certainly no theif “. What? The guy lies about his background to steal money from simple people, that fraud and considered stealing by law. Oh and the mentos commercial was effing awesome
Thank you very much! I meant it more tongue in cheek than it came out, like sure he’s all of these things but he’s no petty thief, he most certainly swindled people out of money no argument there
33:26 So the "Dim Mack" is actually a real technique. Mind Blown.
Leaving comment to help with the algorithm cause I can already tell this dude channel is goated just by the fact that he already did the Johnny cash movie Walk the Line, gonna switch to that one & watch it before this one honestly lol but still definitely just as hyped to watch thjs one
Thank you! Hope you enjoy!
bruce lee died making game of death, fun fact jackie chan filled in to shoot the bike scenes, thats why he wears a helmut. Thankfully they filmed all the fights scenes first in case of injuries during shooting.
Awesome 👌
I kind of want to see an interview with Steven Seagal and Frank Dux. The BS Olympics
It's a great film, whether based on true events or not. I do believe it would fall into anyone's top 5 of all time😊
I can't believe Dux called himself the Godfather of MMA.
So Bloodsport is based on a true story that makes it even 10 times more cooler than it already was I mean it was already really fucking cool
this was great
20 fights in one day full contact?! LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
Instant fan and sub to your work.
Glorious!
Thank you!
Movie is brilliant frank dux though oooh boy so many holes in his backstory lol
Pinkman- I know youre watching. Make yourself known
Maybe Pinkman is planning a great comeback someday will rise from the darkness and destroy all the new generation of frauds 😂
Frank Dux and The Black Dragon Fighting Society got to him.
@@arietis9947
Frankie Dux and Ashida Kim's ninja mastery was ultimately too much for poor pinky. 😢
For Pinkman!!
FOR REAL! come back!!!
You are hilarious. Great video bro
Thank you very much!
@@ReelStory You are welcome. We must always give credit where credit is due...right Frank Dux? 🤣
Ironically, Frank Dux inspired more people to martial arts and more martial arts movies than anyone I can think of besides Bruce Lee.
That Mentos bit 😂
Stayin fresh stayin cool 😎 I wish I could take the credit for it but that was something I remembered watching back when UA-cam was still somewhat new and had to retrieve it and add it to this!
good job man
Everybody loves Bloodsport man and women alike.
I’m thinking I want to play Count Dante in a movie. I’ve got that goatee, the hair, and I like to do the eyebrow like Adam Sandler in the other movie. He’s doing the raised eyebrow like the rock, aka the people’s eyebrow lol
But I was thinking would that be such a great idea?
I would love to see that movie
I would 100% watch a Count Dante movie. His life is the stuff dark comedies are made of and some of it is stranger than any fiction haha
Excellent video on Frank Dux/Bloodsport
Thank you very much I appreciate that!
@@ReelStory Keep videos like this coming !
So many of his claims seem to correlate to snippets of movies. Greatest bullshitter of all time
Bolo Yeung/Chong Li was already the bad guy in Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon, from which Dux stole the whole storyline. Dux was so crazy he even took bad guy from the movie he stole the story from.
I always found it funny that Dux sued Van Damme for copying Bloodsport when JCVD did The Quest movie, since Bloodsport was already stolen from Enter the Dragon.
“Play fighting in their grandma’s living room” lmfaoooo
My friends and I kept this VHS on repeat..we knew it was BS at 11, we just didn't care..
Right up my alley
You got my subscribe just by the way you asked😅
This. Is. Awesome. Period!
Thank you!