As a real-life martial artist, Jean-Claude Van Damme has always preferred movies with lots of kicks and punches. These are the best ones.

For Jean-Claude Van Damme, his rise to fame came with 1988's martial arts movie Bloodsport. Bloodsport's premise is simple, yet engaging: Frank Dux (Van Damme) enters the deadly fighting ...

Van Damme’s extraordinary agility and martial arts background made him perfect for this interpretation. As he recalled, “They made me run around the studio and I jumped like a dancer.

With him, the world of film fans and martial arts cinema discovered a new idol: Jean-Claude Van Damme. In the 1970s there ... the reputation that his action films brought him and which has been ...

In an interview with The Telegraph last week, Van Damme nevertheless seemed to diss Seagal. "The first movie I saw of his, I said, ‘This guy’s going to make it, he’s very charismatic,'" he ...

Our totally subjective, no-holds-barred list of the straight-up nastiest ... on the big screen and in the comic books. We kept it to movies this time around, but the idea still holds.

Credit: Kings Road Entertainment Maybe you're too young to remember Kickboxer, the 1989 martial arts movie where Jean-Claude Van Damme learns Muay Thai in a training montage, kicks down a banana ...