Lionheart
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Search complete. 16 mentions across 11 episodes found for "Lionheart".
Oct 5, 2026
David UllmanGUEST
And I think they did maybe even another version.
David UllmanGUEST
But this second version, Sheldon Lettich was there, writer of Bloodsport, director of Lionheart, Double Impact.
David UllmanGUEST
friend of Jean-Claude Van Damme and so he sees this movie Van Damme's over just finishing kickbox shooting kickboxer in Thailand and let it gets in touch with him he's like dude you better get back here right away This, this, because this is a disaster, like your career might just be over with this film.
David UllmanGUEST
And so this, by the way, I've heard in various places, but it's most detailed in Sheldon Lettich's book, or it's a book about him written by a guy named, I think, Corey Dana called From Vietnam to Van Damme.
SeanbabyHOST
He looks like a giant baby when he smiles, like all of his menace vanishes and he's just like kind of a cute, fun guy.
SeanbabyHOST
Then there's a picture from Lionheart of him choreographing Lionheart, which if you've seen Lionheart, not a great achievement in fight choreography.
Robert BrockwayHOST
No, I think that's, I think that's the one because I was a huge fan damn fan when I was a kid.
Robert BrockwayHOST
I think Lionheart was the one where I was like, maybe I'm over this.
SeanbabyHOST
There's one fight in that where it's like they build it up and he just punches him in the dick and everyone looks real disappointed.
SeanbabyHOST
I was like, yeah, why put that in the fucking movie? Aren't we supposed to like our main guy? Like in Bloodsport, it's like he pulled that out of nowhere to like hit that sumo guy with the dick punch.
SeanbabyHOST
And you're like, whoa, I've never seen anything like that.
SeanbabyHOST
The full splits.
Mark HoffmeyerHOST
In Kickboxer, he beats Tong Po.
Mark HoffmeyerHOST
In Lionheart, he beats Attila.
Mark HoffmeyerHOST
Double impact.
Mark HoffmeyerHOST
Same actor.
Tennessee MikeGUEST
Hey, Mike, are you with me to watch Street Fighter? No, the fuck I'm not.
Tennessee MikeGUEST
If we're going to Van Damme, let's put on Bloodsport or Kickboxer, maybe Lionheart.
Tennessee MikeGUEST
Something like that.
JayHOST
Maybe the one with Dennis Rodman.
BenGUEST
in Street Race 2 I forget so but Skate is like really fast but he's weak and Max was super slow but super strong like Max is great yeah
Naoise O'HareHOST
they're cool characters and I was even reading the lore because I didn't realise this was called Bare Knuckle in Japan which I think is cool and has it kind of reminds me of like a Jean-Claude Van Damme thing with all the different names of like Lionheart and AWOL and all that kind of stuff and then I was like I was looking up the enemies and apparently with the Japanese copy of the game all of the enemies have like names and backstories like full on backstories to them so like there's proper lore
BenGUEST
in the second one whenever you fight them their name pops up but it doesn't happen at first but like I love like going back and reading lore and finding out now especially with the Japanese manuals are way better that way because we have like plain black and white ones And if you see the Japanese ones, they're full colour.
BenGUEST
And there's obviously some Japanese, but there's a lot more information in them.
Zach SchaeferHOST
Yeah.
Corey StevensonHOST
And, and even the, the producer, Ash, Ash Shahah, um, he produced Sudden Death and Lionheart with JCVD, and Olivier Gruner wanted to be the next JCVD.
Corey StevensonHOST
Hell, they wanted him to be the next JCVD.
Corey StevensonHOST
But bro, he's not.
50 MINS LATER
Zach SchaeferHOST
And, but-
Corey StevensonHOST
Yeah
Zach SchaeferHOST
... uh, Corey and I were at like a signing for Lionheart, and they had the cast and crew there and interviewed them, blah, blah, blah.
Zach SchaeferHOST
Anyways, Michelle Keesy told the story of like growing up with Van Damme and coming out to America, and like he was hungry.
PandoraHOST
They basically said, "After Bloodsport, what do you wanna be in?" He was in a movie called Cyborg.
PandoraHOST
Lionheart was in 1990, and that's another one of his big, big movies.
PandoraHOST
So he, he exploded after Bloodsport.
SummerHOST
The actual lead of this movie is clearly meant to be trying to catapult his career.
Christopher CrespoHOST
I don't think Sheldon directed that.
Christopher CrespoHOST
And Lionheart, which is Bloodsport in the urban setting.
Christopher CrespoHOST
In the herbs.
Christopher CrespoHOST
Not the suburbs, but in the herbs.
32 MINS LATER
Christopher CrespoHOST
But still, yeah, it's a challenge for him.
DrewHOST
Especially for someone whose other credits are
Christopher CrespoHOST
Lionheart and Bloodsport.
Christopher CrespoHOST
a lot of special effects work in those movies oh yeah we'll do an effects movie we can do it Alex takes Frank and Chad to an abandoned hotel resort to set up shop where they can like they have a table full of rusty
Ricky StormHOST
Well, that doesn't shock me.
Ricky StormHOST
He was in Lionheart.
Ricky StormHOST
Lionheart, Chris Jericho, Hard Target.
Ricky StormHOST
Yes, and he was in Universal Soldiers.
Ricky StormHOST
And Double Impact.
Paul LambertHOST
Well, who's your favorite character? [laughs]
Chris HawkeyHOST
I like, uh, Larry the Lionheart.
Paul LambertHOST
Oh, yeah.
Paul LambertHOST
He's fast.
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