Random Insane Story Of Frank Dux (11 items)

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  (#1) Dux Claims He Was Offered $25,000 To Kill Steven Seagal

  According to Dux, someone offered him $25,000 to assassinate another noted martial artist: Steven Seagal.

  No records exist of Dux reporting this to the police or of him actually attempting to snuff out Seagal, however. 
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  (#2) Dux Claims He Sold His Prize Sword To Save Orphans In The Philippines

  Frank Dux reportedly won a sword for winning the Kumite, however, he no longer owns that sword. Apparently, he sold the sword to pay for a mission to rescue orphans from pirates in the Philippines.

  Dux says many of them now reside in the US and are loyal enough to take lives for Dux.
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  (#3) Dux Was Not Impressed By Van Damme's Athletic Abilities

  In addition to his acting career, Jean-Claude Van Damme competed as a world-class kickboxer. During his career as a fighter, Van Damme had 18 knockouts to his record, but that didn't do him much good when it came to training for Bloodsport.

  When Dux met Van Damme, Dux realized Van Damme wasn't exactly flexible:

  He was very stiff. He had a karate background. But, I mean, he couldn’t do a forward roll when I first got him. He frickin’ landed on his head, in front of all my students. Are you kidding me? I mean, he couldn’t do a throw. You try to get him to do a judo throw and he couldn’t throw anybody. He was good at boxing. He was good at stiff karate moves, but that was it. 

  Dux trained Van Damme for three grueling months, but it paid off; the fight scenes in Bloodsport are incredible and Van Damme looks ready to fight to the end. 
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  (#4) Dux's Childhood Ninja Training Has Not Been Verified

   

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  Dux grew up outside of Los Angeles and, until he was 16, had a typical suburban childhood. At age 16, he says Senzo "Tiger" Tanaka took him to Japan to train as a ninja. Shoto Tanemura, a well-known ninja trainer, says he's never heard of Tanaka.

  Yet the story of Tanaka remains key to the Dux legend, as he claims the master's last wish was for him to fight in the Kumite and become the first Westerner to win the contest. 
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  (#5) Dux Challenged Van Damme To A Fight On Set

  The action in Bloodsport followed the actors off the screen as well. On the set, Van Damme and Dux nearly entered a battle royale on the roof of a building after disagreeing about how a fight sequence would go down. Dux decided to up the stakes of the fight though. 

  Rather than throwing punches in the middle of the roof, Dux walked to the ledge of a 60-story building. When Van Damme and his entourage showed up, Dux, standing on an I-beam hundreds of feet in the air, did a "jumping spin heel kick." Van Damme laughed, told Dux he made his point, and bought him dinner.
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  (#6) Dux Claims He Won The Medal Of Honor

  Dux claims he was awarded a Medal of Honor in a secret ceremony for his service in Southeast Asia.

  Though Dux did serve in the Marines, the only record of his service states he fell off a truck and never left San Diego, much less the US.

   
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  (#7) Dux Coached The Only Known Kumite Witness

  The real story behind Bloodsport sounds made for Hollywood, and indeed, it may well have been. Screenwriter Sheldon Lettich, who wrote the film, discussed the story of the "based on real events" tag the movie displays before the credits roll. Lettich said he met with a man named Richard Bender, who Dux said would corroborate every word of his story and actually appeared at the fabled Kumite.

  However, Lettich, like most others, found himself suspicious of Bender, and rightly so. Years after the film was made, Bender went back on everything he said about the fights being true and claimed Dux even coached him about what to say to back up his story. 
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  (#8) Dux Said He Worked As A Covert CIA Operative

  Frank Dux claims he worked as an operative for the CIA and even says he played a role in covert operations in Central America in the 1980s.

  Dux's website even features a letter from Lt. Cmdr. Alexander Martin of the US Navy corroborating his claims. 
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  (#9) His Fight Record Is Impossibly Impressive

  Over the span of his fighting career, Dux claims that he has broken several records, including most knockouts (56) and fastest punch with a knockout. 

  However, fighting experts say his knockout record alone is impossible to achieve. 
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  (#10) The Organization That Holds Kumite Seems To Have Disappeared

  The Kumite, the mysterious tournament at the center of Bloodsport, takes place every five years. Dux says his trophy and records in the tournament show proof of his fighting prowess. However, the organization that puts on the fights is extremely difficult to track down.

  At some point, the International Fighting Arts Association, which Dux claimed held the Kumite, ceased to exist, and any traces of the organization only led back to Dux's door. More strangely, the organization now claiming to hold the event, the Black Dragon Fighting Society, recognizes Dux as one of its "10 Patriarchs."
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  (#11) Dux's Exaggerations Don't Mean His Story Is Entirely False

  Dux may have embellished or made up parts of his story, but that doesn't mean the tale of the American fighter who won the Kumite isn't true. For one thing, the Kumite actually exists, though not in the way that Dux claims. It's not a tournament but rather an endurance test where fighters go up against many opponents.

  Shoddy reporting may also be responsible for Dux's tarnished reputation. Though one article makes the case Dux bought the trophy he said he won at the Kumite, the evidence for this conclusion is a receipt produced years after a photo of Dux holding the award was published. It also has his name and address incorrectly documented on the receipt. 

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