S16 Ep845: Bloodsport (1988, W❤️M) [EXTENDED PREVIEW]

This is just an extended preview of our 2-hour+ conversation on BLOODSPORT! To access the full show, click through here and sign up for our Patreon!

“It’s a rare fighting style… Party Down Boxing” - Chris, on Jackson’s fight moves

On this month’s We ❤️ Movies episode, White Guy Karate Month spills over into WLM as we chat about one of JCVD’s best, Bloodsport!

How incredible are those splits, folks? Was Frank Dux, the guy whose life this movie was supposedly based on, completely full of shit? How did Jackson get that beer into the hospital? Is Bolo Yeung the only competitor allowed to kill people in the tournament because he was the returning champion? And that brick trick: cool or dumb? PLUS: Are the founding fathers’ lives in the public domain so we can make a Mortal Kombat-esque game about them?

Bloodsport stars Jean-Claude Van Damme, Bolo Yeung, Leah Ayres, Norman Burton, Forest Whitaker, Roy Chiao, and Donald Gibb as Ray Jackson; directed by Newt Arnold.

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Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.