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Bloodsport (1988) More at IMDbPro »

• The majority of Bolo Yeung's lines are similar to Bruce Lee's in Enter the Dragon (1973), in which Bolo appeared.
  
  
• Jean-Claude Van Damme does his trade mark splits a total of seven times during the film.
  
  
• Even after it was filmed, the movie was almost never released, but Jean-Claude Van Damme helped edit the film so that it could be.
  
  
• The arcade game that Jean-Claude Van Damme and Donald Gibb are playing is called Karate Champ (1986) (VG).
  
  
• Though Frank Dux's brick-breaking demonstration is purely fictional, the Dim Mak ("Death Touch") is a legendary move fabled in Chinese martial arts folklore. The Dim Mak is an accu-pressure attack where the attacker quickly strikes his opponent several times (in sequence) at various spots on his body. Striking an opponent in this method can result in broken bones, paralysis/painful muscle spasms or even instant death. Pei-pei Cheng's character Jade Fox uses a paralyzing Dim Mak-type attack in Wo hu cang long (2000).
  
  
• The real Frank Dux was the fighting coordinator for this film. When Jean-Claude Van Damme was cast, Dux announced that Van Damme wasn't nearly in good enough shape, and put him through a 3-month training program. Van Damme called those three months "the hardest training of his life" - this despite being a world-championship martial artist in his own right.
  
  

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