* Kumite is the name of the fictional freestyle fighting tournament, portrayed in the 1988 Jean-Claude Van Damme movie Bloodsport, based on the claims of Frank Dux.

Bloodsport has a large following amongst martial arts film fans and is considered to be a cult classic.

A remake of Bloodsport is being planned.

The film is an adaptation of the movie The Golden Child and has borrowed subplots from Bloodsport.

Primarily cast as the villain in the movies he stars in, he is best known for his performances as Bolo in Enter the Dragon and as Chong Li in Bloodsport, and also for his many appearances in martial arts B-movies.

In the movie Bloodsport the teenage Frank Dux is treated by the Japanese master Shitoshi Tanaka in a very fatherly and affectionate manner in general, but the training in rigorous and harsh, and the master never gives any relief or comfort zone to Frank Dux.

These include The Karate Kid ( 1984 ) and Bloodsport ( 1988 ).

* Bloodsport ( 1988 )

He was the inspiration for the 1988 film Bloodsport starring Jean-Claude Van Damme.

In 1988, Whitaker played in the film Bloodsport alongside Jean-Claude Van Damme and he had his first lead role starring as musician Charlie Parker in the Clint Eastwood-directed film, Bird.

Bloodsport tells the story of American Frank Dux ( Jean Claude Van Damme ), trained from his youth in the ways of Ninjutsu by a Japanese master of the art, Senzo Tanaka ( Roy Chiao ).

As American kumite entrant named Ray Jackson, he starred alongside Jean-Claude Van Damme in Bloodsport, and alone in the 1996 Bloodsport sequel.

* Paco, a fictional martial artist played by Paulo Tocha in the film Bloodsport

The film s also attached to, The Corruptor, Showdown in Little Tokyo and Bloodsport.

* In the film Bloodsport a Monkey Kung Fu user participates in an underground fighting tournament.

After working with David Worth ( Bloodsport ) in the film, The Prophet's Game ( which starred Dennis Hopper ) Kaye re-teamed with the director in the thriller Shark Attack II.

During the 1970s and ' 80s, Bolo starred in numerous kung fu films, but his breakout film was Bloodsport, based on the alleged true story of Frank Dux.

Due to a strong friendship formed between the two actors on the set of Bloodsport, Jean-Claude Van Damme wanted no one but Bolo to play the lead villain in this film.

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Three more TV films of 1989 were adaptations of Bloodsport, In the Frame, and Twice Shy, all starring Ian McShane and featuring protagonist David Cleveland, a name actually used only once by Francis, in the novel Slayride.

One of the singles released from the album, " Bloodsport For All ", an attack on racism and bullying in the army, was released at the start of the Gulf War and consequently banned by the BBC.

Bloodsport was released in a Region 1 DVD by Warner Home Video on October 1, 2002.

Bloodsport was followed by three sequels, Bloodsport II: The Next Kumite ( 1996 ), Bloodsport III ( 1997 ) and Bloodsport 4: The Dark Kumite ( 1999 ).

* " Blue Movie ", a song by Sneaker Pimps from Bloodsport

The match ended with both men so badly tangled up together in the barbed wire that it took several ring technicians armed with wire cutters to free them from the predicament ( on the DVD Bloodsport – ECW's Most Violent Matches released by World Wrestling Entertainment, Paul Heyman said that the match was " so gruesome, I never ever dared to schedule another one like it ", and that they never had another Barbed-Wire match in ECW because " no one could top that one – and in good conscience, I never wanted anyone to try ") but Sabu said during an interview that Heyman wanted to do another Barbed-Wire match, but Sabu would ask for more money each time.

The two new comic books involved Mark Millar writing new issues of Youngblood: Bloodsport and Youngblood: Genesis written by Brandon Thomas.

Bloodsport became one of Jean Claude Van Damme's first starring films and showcased his athletic abilities.

The arcade version was shown briefly in the movie Bloodsport starring Jean Claude Van Damme.

The Black Dragon Society appeared in the movie Bloodsport, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as the hosts of the illegal tournament in which Frank Dux fought.

European action actors such as Belgian-born Jean-Claude Van Damme ( Bloodsport, Hard Target, Timecop ), Moroccan-born Jean Reno ( Ronin ), Swedish-born Dolph Lundgren ( Showdown in Little Tokyo, Universal Soldier, The Expendables ) and English-born Jason Statham ( The Transporter, The Expendables, Crank ), appeared in a number of 1990s and 2000s-era action films.

The critics ' reaction was mostly negative, citing the film's thin script, Van Damme's direction, and too much resemblance to Bloodsport.

* Jean Claude Van Damme as Frank Dux in the movie Bloodsport.

* Bloodsport ( 2002 ) – # 16 U. S. Electronic, # 46 U. S. Indie

* 1991 Carter USM covered " Bedsitter " on the CD single of Bloodsport For All.

He also co-starred with Gary Busey in " Bloodsport " ( 1973 ), as the " win-at-all-costs " father to his football-playing son.

Their third and final battle, at the Bloodsport tournament, went similarly.

These involved reprinting older material and providing the art for two new series Youngblood: Bloodsport with Mark Millar and Youngblood: Genesis with Brandon Thomas.

Section 39 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 provides that common assault, like battery, is triable only in the magistrates ' court in England and Wales ( unless it is linked to a more serious offence, which is triable in the Crown Court ).

His Esquisse d ' un programme ( 1984 ) is a proposal for a position at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, which he held from 1984 to his retirement in 1988.

The current most senior living descendant of the Electress Sophia who is ineligible to succeed due to the act is George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews, the eldest son of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, who married the Roman Catholic Sylvana Palma Tomaselli in 1988 ; he would now be 29th in the lines of succession if he had not lost his place.

Exile ( 1988 video game ) | Exile is an example of a game where the developers left non-graphical data visible in the display buffer to gain additional memory space.

* 1988 – In Israel, John Demjanuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.

The second, named Fatih Sultan Mehmet ( Bosphorus II ) Bridge, is long, and was completed in 1988 about north of the first bridge.

The most sacrifice flies by a team in one game is five ; the record was established by the Seattle Mariners in 1988 and tied by the Colorado Rockies in 2006 and then tied again in 2008 by the Seattle Mariners.

Another is the 1988 Koko case in which 5 ships transported 8, 000 barrels of hazardous waste from Italy to the small town of Koko in Nigeria in exchange for $ 100 monthly rent which was paid to a Nigerian for the use of his farmland.

One possible origin is Chun Shui Tang teahouse in Taichung, where Ms. Lin Hsiu Hui ( product development manager ) poured sweetened tapioca balls into the tea during a meeting in 1988.

For example, in English law the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 provides that if a copyrighted work is made by an employee in the course of that employment, the copyright is automatically owned by the employer which would be a " Work for Hire.

He is best known in the film industry for his role as Prince Humperdinck in Rob Reiner's 1987 film The Princess Bride, though he also has had supporting parts in some other successful films such as the original Child's Play ( 1988 ).

The area now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo was populated as early as 80, 000 years ago, as shown by the 1988 discovery of the Semliki harpoon at Katanda, one of the oldest barbed harpoons ever found, and which is believed to have been used to catch giant river catfish.

Engelbart is now Founder Emeritus of the Doug Engelbart Institute, which he founded in 1988 with his daughter Christina Engelbart, who is now Executive Director.

* 1988 – The Australian Capital Territory is granted self-government.

* 1988 – Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.

* 1988 – Benazir Bhutto is appointed Prime Minister of Pakistan.

* 1988 – The Michael Hughes Bridge in Sligo, Ireland is officially opened.

* 1988 – Chico Mendes, a Brazilian rubber tapper, unionist and environmental activist, is assassinated.

In 1988 he returned to Bloomington as " College of Arts and Sciences Professor " in both cognitive science and computer science, and also was appointed adjunct professor of history and philosophy of science, philosophy, comparative literature, and psychology, but he states that his involvement with most of these departments is nominal.

That is, the inverse transform is the same as the forward transform with the real and imaginary parts swapped for both input and output, up to a normalization ( Duhamel et al., 1988 ).