The Black Dragon Fighting Society (BDFS) is a sponsor of the Kumite in the Bloodsport movie. This might also help to explain why an online search for the I.F.A.A. has since disbanded and that the Black Dragon Fighting Society is a "derivative affiliate" of the former organization, which was still in existence when the 1980 Black Belt magazine article was written. In communications with Frank, he stated that the I.F.A.A. The website is run by one of Dux's former students, Sky Benson, who uses the website to help promote Dux's fighting system, FASST™/Dux Ryu. organization yields little evidence of its existence, other than a brief mention on the website. Considering that the Kumite took place nearly two decades before the emergence of the internet, coupled with the I.F.A.A.'s desire to remain out of the public eye, it is not hard to understand why an online search for the I.F.A.A.
FRANK FROM MOMENT OF TRUTH MOVIE
28).īloodsport t-shirts, including the bestselling Kumite t-shirt, have helped fans celebrate the movie and the legendary tournament. The event is sponsored by the International Fighting Arts Association (I.F.A.A.) which, although not a publicity seeking organization, is far from secret." ( Black Belt Magazine, 1980, p. In our own correspondence with Frank, he named numerous organizations as acknowledging the existence of The Kumite, including the USA Martial Arts Hall of Fame, The Alliance, Black Dragon Fighting Society, Shinjimatsu (Yokohama, Japan), Golden Globe International Martial Arts Hall of Fame, and Imperial, among others.īlack Belt magazine's November 1980 issue states the following, "The truth is that a full-contact kumite event is indeed held at a private location once every five years. Controversy has arisen around Dux's own past and his stories of The Kumite. However, according to Frank's accounts, "The Kumite" was held in Nassau, Bahamas in 1975, not in Hong Kong like we see in the film. His experience became the inspiration for the onscreen events in the 1988 movie Bloodsport. In the 1988 film, we see Jean-Claude Van Damme, playing Frank Dux, triumphing over a ruthless fighter named Chong Li, portrayed by a then 50-year-old Bolo Yeung.Īs stated in the November 1980 Black Belt magazine interview, titled "Kumite: A Learning Experience," the real Frank Dux did in fact attend and win the 1975 Kumite, weighing in as a heavyweight. According to the movie, the Kumite tournament is a no-holds-barred mixed martial arts competition held in secret every five years. Lauren Cleri insisted, the Post reports, that she did not agree to go on the show just to end her marriage.Frank Dux (right, circa 1975) shared a similar resemblance with his onscreen counterpart Jean-Claude Van Damme (left). In an ironic twist, the Cleris wound up leaving with no prize money because, despite the polygraph finding answers to those difficult questions to be ”true,” when she was asked whether she thinks she is a good person, Cleri said yes and the machine said the answer was ”false.” Frank Cleri told the Post he was aware of his wife’s cheating but not prepared for the turmoil surrounding the show, which was taped two weeks prior to airing this week. An actual former boyfriend appeared on the show to ask that last question. On the show, Cleri revealed before her parents, siblings, and husband that she had slept with another man while married to Frank, that she was still in love with an ex on her wedding day, and that she really thinks she should be married to a former boyfriend. Lauren Cleri, 26, tells the newspaper that she and husband Frank Cleri, 24, a New York police officer, are ”kind of up in the air right now - I want to, but I don’t think he does.” Moment of Truth has contestants take a lie-detector test backstage and then go on camera and be asked the same questions, receiving cash prizes for truthful answers. (FROM THE NEW YORK POST) ? A contestant on Monday’s episode of the reality show Moment of Truth told the New York Post that she and her husband have separated over the ”truths” that were revealed on the air.
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