JCVD to fight?

God I hope this is a fucking joke:


Express a love of Jean-Claude Van Damme's filmography in the wrong company and you'll have a hard time recovering. This is the kind of admission that can infect every opinion you ever share in the future.

You: "You know, universal health care is a noble thing, but government intervention in the private sec …"

Acquaintance: "Sorry, but aren't you the fellow who said he owned 'Replicant' on Blu-ray?"

You: "Yes, but …"

Acquaintance: "Let's just go to opposite corners of the room."

Nostalgia is what it is: you like what you like. I grew up on a diet of Van Damme movies and their snake charms on adolescent boys who enjoy watching a numb-mouthed foreigner spin-kick Powers Boothe through a glass partition. For anyone who shares that appetite, the news that Van Damme, nearly 50, is considering an actual kickboxing fight should be met with some kind of interest -- however morbid it might be.

"It's the first time in history a guy at 50 will go for a real fight in Macau [China],'" he told gathered media at a news conference in the Ukraine last week. "It's kind of dangerous, but life is short."

If he's serious, it's about to get much shorter. Van Damme says he intends to fight Somluck Kamsing, a Thai boxer with 300-plus bouts to his credit (this according to Van Damme). Kamsing is only 37 years old: According to Wikipedia, he won gold as a featherweight boxer in the 1996 Olympic Games.

Van Damme's athletic résumé consists of some hazy full-contact tournaments in the 1970s -- and beating up himself in "Double Impact." By way of bizarre fight ambition, he also (allegedly) circulated a rumor that he had signed to fight Bas Rutten in a K-1 bout some years back.

The actor says he intends to film up to 36 episodes of a reality series this year, the latter 12 of which would consist of his training for the fight, culminating with the bout in China. "[It will be] the training of Van Damme," he said. Third-person references rarely portend good things.

He should fight Segal. They both seem desperate.

They've already named his first opponent

Are strikes to the groin area legal now or somthing? jk lol

JCVD looks fucking horrible now and the only way I think he can win is if they put a woman who knows nothing about martial arts in the ring. He is used to those kinds of fights.

you think he would fight a can his first fight back or what ever the case he is 50. This guy he is fighting should and will beat that ass.

Yeah, I say DW signs him up and makes him fight Chuck! I would pay to watch that.

franklinfan2 wrote:

He should fight Segal. They both seem desperate.

He looks horrible now and segal would kill his ass lol.

Bolo is 70 and would probably jck Seagal and JCVD up.

GDPofDRC wrote:

Bolo is 70 and would probably jck Seagal and JCVD up.

Everyone knows him from Bloodsport but few know him from Enter the Dragon. So yeah, he's at least 70.

Bloodsport was awesome.

Bolo Yeung was about 50 when he played Chong Li?! That is fucking crazy. He was born in 1938.

A 70 year old Bolo Yeung would still kick my ass .

They should let Chuck Norris fight both JCVD and Bolo at the same time.

Van Damme got his ass whipped in a bar fight . correction, Knocked out in a bar fight like 15 years ago
this isnt going to be good

Chuck would beat them both. He actually fought for a living at one point in his life...granted that was the sixties, but he could still do it.

Chuck Zito vs Bolo!!!

Let the guy fight. Like Walker and all these guys, if they really are a big "joke" it will be proven in the cage...until then, i have no problem with them being in the cage.