Basement Gym Boxing: Guess Who's Coming To Another Kickboxer Franchise Film...GIF Spotlight

Saturday, January 27, 2018

Guess Who's Coming To Another Kickboxer Franchise Film...GIF Spotlight

In 1989, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Mark DiSalle's memorable Kickboxer franchise began. It's a beloved classic martial arts flick. But while Van Damme's time with the franchise paused there, the torch was passed with a new character to black belt and sitcom star Sasha Mitchell for not one but THREE sequels, from 1991-1994. Here, yet another lead was picked in Mark Dacascos (champion martial artist, Iron Chef presenter, Hawaii Five-0's Wo Fat) for the fifth Kickboxer installment in 1995. By this point, the franchise had a film that was as thinly connected to the franchise as you can possibly attempt.

Kickboxer: Vengeance (2016), however, brought the story back around to a revamp of Van Damme's original film. It wasn't a sequel. It was another take on the original story. This time, the torch passed to black belt and stuntman Alain Moussi as the action star but Van Damme was back and the franchise was really back in a big way. They've ordered another and it co-stars our own Mike Tyson. Interestingly, 1989, while they were releasing the original Kickboxer, Mike Tyson was cementing his status as one of the most dominant heavyweight champions in history, smashing Frank Bruno and Carl Williams, and holding every major claim to the heavyweight title that anyone could try to hoard in a corner somewhere. No one hid any piece of the by from Mike Tyson in 1989.

80's Boxing + 80's Kickboxing = Victory

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