JR 137
Grandmaster
My three favorite things that prove Lundgren’s a badass...Ah thanks so much for sharing, love it, it speaks volumes to me. Love the pic too, karate and the beach just fit. And Lundgren too, whatta bloke .
1. He won the European Kyokushin open as a green belt. He had to borrow his friend’s brown belt and pretend he was a brown belt to compete.
2. A few people broke into his house and tied up his wife and kids in a robbery attempt. When they saw him in family pictures on the wall and realized it was his house they were robbing, they fled.
3. During filming or rehearsals for Rocky IV, Stallone wanted Lundgren to actually hit him. Lundgren hit him in the chest and put him in ICU for a few days. I think it was swelling around his heart.
Yeah, he’s as legit as they come. He’s not a Hollywood guy who went karate; he’s a Kyokushin guy who wound up getting into acting.
Edit: For those that don’t know much about the Kyokushin open tournaments, there’s no rank nor weight classes. So he was beating guys at 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc. dan ranks. Green belt is around 4th kyu. This was a while before he was “Ivan Drago,” so that fear and awe of Drago didn’t play any part in it. He was just another guy, albeit a jacked and badass guy
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