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Bloodsport

ActionDrama

Directed by Newt Arnold

An American Army Major goes AWOL to Hong Kong for an outlawed martial arts contest called the Kumite. From TMDB

220 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy, TMDB reviews) · newest Oct 30, 2026 · last updated Oct 30, 2026 · How this works

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Bloodsport is a 1988 action drama film, directed by Newt Arnold, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Donald Gibb and Leah Ayres.

  • 200 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy, TMDB reviews
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  • Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 12, 2025

    You think I'm only referring to him raping E. Jean Carroll and Ivana Trump and facing 65 other allegations of sexual misconduct? You think I'm just talking about him hitting Don Jr.? Or that Bloodsport is his favorite movie, and boxing and UFC are his favorite sports? Uh, no.

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  • Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.comBluesky · May 4, 2024

    The cat, as discussed, has boundary issues and is now sitting with his head about five inches away from mine I am having trouble seeing the movie Luckily since it's Bloodsport I know what's happening by the sounds of the fighting

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  • Monica At The Movies @monicasmovies.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 8, 2026

    Bloodsport (1988) Directed by Newt Arnold

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  • BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 6, 2025

    like, I unfortunately agree with that man on two things: 1. the film Bloodsport is awesome 2. let's drop a nuke into a hurricane

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  • Jesse Cox @jessecox.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 28, 2025

    On youtube /jessecox: #Geekenders with CinnamonToastKen On youtube /coxclips: A new creepy horror game and right now on twitch .tv/jessecox we're jumping into rogue trader again - then later BLOODSPORT movie night with @crendor (and later today a new Jesse led Chilluminati!)

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  • Sundray @[email protected]Lemmy · May 13, 2026

    Donald Gibb, ‘Revenge of the Nerds’ and ‘Bloodsport’ Actor, Dies at 71. [RIP big man, there's nobody like you](https://www.themoviedb.org/person/70254-donald-gibb).

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  • Leaf~ @leaftilde.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 1, 2025

    ... Has anyone written a book that's just the movie Bloodsport but with BattleMechs before?

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  • grimm 🎃 @mugrimm.bsky.socialBluesky · May 12, 2026

    This is exactly what Donald Trump had staff do btw. He had them eliminate the 'boring' parts of the movie Bloodsport because he was getting tired of fast forwarding through them.

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  • Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 26, 2025

    The funny part in the news about Paramount trying to please Trump by greenlighting RUSH HOUR 4 was when Trump also expressed his enthusiasm for BLOODSPORT - a movie I’m sure he’s watched 30 times

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  • Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 24, 2024

    1) The movie Trump loves is Bloodsport, not Kickboxer. 2) It's not a rumor, a reporter from the New Yorker witnessed Trump watching it in 1997. 3) He doesn't have an edited version of the movie, he just made his son Eric fast-forward the VHS tape through the parts that didn't have fighting.

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  • Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 7, 2025

    This week Historians At The Movies celebrates its seventh anniversary with a watch party featuring the most historically accurate film ever made. Join us on Prime Video this Sunday July 13 at 8pm eastern for BLOODSPORT. Keep #HATM fighting by sharing and we’ll see you soon!

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  • Matt Ford @mford.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 10, 2026

    Trump posting a snuff film on Truth Social reminded me of that 1997 New Yorker profile where he watches Bloodsport on a plane and fast-forwards through everything but the most violent scenes. www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...

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  • merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.comBluesky · Jan 16, 2025

    they really do a Bloodsport in this movie except it’s run by monks in a little monastery for an audience of twelve rural Irish people

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  • Monica At The Movies @monicasmovies.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 18, 2025

    Bloodsport (1988) Directed by Newt Arnold

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  • Monica At The Movies @monicasmovies.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 8, 2025

    Bloodsport (1988) Directed by Newt Arnold

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  • Valkyrie Thunderbitch @valkyrieladyk.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 23, 2026

    This is, in my opinion, JCVD's best movie -- not his best *martial arts* movie (that's BLOODSPORT), but his best film overall. And Casey's right that Henriksen plays a fantastic villain. Also shout out to Wilford Brimley as a fat old Cajun.

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  • Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.socialBluesky · May 5, 2025

    It should also be pointed out that Bloodsport, Trump's favorite film, would be subjected to these tariffs. It was filmed entirely on Hong Kong, so therefore would cost twice as much for streaming, cable and DVDs under Trump's plan.

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  • Tracey No™️ @traceyno.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 10, 2025

    Just found out that one of the sequels to the 1988 JCVD film Bloodsport is called Lady Bloodfight and this is how I will be referring to my time of the month from now on.

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  • Lee CroNina's The Mummymoto 💀 @spacecoyote.comBluesky · Mar 30, 2024

    on this Good JCVDay, I watched JCVD (2008), finishing my journey to watch every major Jean-Claude Van Damme film. 49 movies in all. Bloodsport (1998) was my very first, and still my favourite

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  • Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.socialBluesky · May 14, 2024

    I am sorry but all other discourse must cease until we have had a lengthy discussion about how impossibly high Jean Claude Van Damme’s pants were in the 1988 film Bloodsport.

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  • Nix~🍉 @punklenix.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 10, 2025

    10 years ago I finished one of the stranger pieces I have ever been requested to make. Jean-Claude Van Damme from the film Bloodsport on a trio of pints.

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  • Maggie Serota @maggieserota.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 7, 2023

    Bloodsport: This movie has a lot of blood … and a lot of heart. That’s my review.

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  • Weedle @weedle.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 9, 2026

    When we get the Super Smash Bros movie in a decade I don't want them to try to make it an Avengers copy they need to lean into it being PG rated Bloodsport. Have Jean-Claude Van Damme voice Pikachu and utter a single deep "Pika." after spiking Captain Falcon into the abyss

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  • Jennifreddy Glove Hewitt @senatorivy.comBluesky · Jul 14, 2025

    Bloodsport is a god tier Anytime Movie, and the youth of today have lost this light because they care too much of "bullshido." Oh no, Frank Dux isnt real? a lot of things arent real, grow up. KUMITE KUMITE KUMITE

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  • Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 6, 2025

    For a non VHS look they filmed it for the movie Bloodsport

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  • Stu Horvath @stuhorvath.comBluesky · Apr 19, 2026

    Watching Bloodsport. Again, not a "good" movie, but often a gorgeous one. Shot on location in Hong Kong in 1988! Kowloon Walled City! They don't make b-movies like this any more.

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  • ᴛʜᴇ 𝕍𝔼ℝℕ𝕀𝕊ℍ𝕀ℕ𝔾 @outlawvern.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 26, 2025

    Steven Kostanski told Bleeding Cool that he got the idea to cast Daniel Bernhardt in DEATHSTALKER because he was watching BLOODSPORT: THE DARK KUMITE. bleedingcool.com/movies/death...

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  • Jon Schiefer @brandxjon.bsky.socialBluesky · May 8, 2025

    If you like Bloodsport or Enter the Dragon, you're gonna like this! Last night I went to an early screening of @lexialex.bsky.social's new movie ABSOLUTE DOMINION at The American Cinematheque. P.S. The movie comes out Friday May 9. watchabsolute.com

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  • Kait Richardson 🥔 @thryse.comBluesky · Mar 4, 2025

    The man who had his bodyguards threaten and work over innocent people with knives and brass knuckles, whose favorite movie is Bloodsport, who publicly praises and pardons right-wing violence, he has a horror of violence?

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  • Eclectic Collector @eclecticcollector.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 24, 2025

    Certainly a step down for Van Damme after "No Retreat, No Surrender" and "Bloodsport"; and probably Kosugi's worst movie alongside "9 Deaths of the Ninja". Quite dull and disappointing. The action is not good enough to make up for the rest. #filmsky #blackeagle #physicalmedia #shokosugi #vandamme

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  • BKRRTimeCapsule @bkrrtimecapsule.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 26, 2025

    #OnThisDay Feb 26, 1988: the film Bloodsport was released in theaters.

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  • Rygrad402 @rygrad402.bsky.socialBluesky · May 8, 2026

    A 90s classic that's tough to watch at times, a RZA directed crime thriller, a Harrison Ford in the jungle film I'd never heard of, and...Bloodsport! #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday

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  • Kevin Church (Spooky Remix) @beaucoupkevin.comBluesky · Dec 27, 2023

    Donald Trump has never watched an entire film or documentary about anything other than himself. He had his son fast forward through the slow parts of BLOODSPORT, for Christ's sake. www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...

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  • Jon of the 80s @nostalgiajon.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 18, 2025

    Ending the night with a 80s film. Going with Bloodsport can't beat some 80s Van Damme kicking ass hahaha #filmsky #bloodsport #80s #genx

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  • Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 14, 2025

    See? Bloodsport is a history movie #HATM

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  • Slazenger Kincaid @slazengerkincaid.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 9, 2026

    #letterboxdfriday demands I share my #last4watched Bloodsport never disappoints.

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  • Shayne Mathis @metalshayne.bsky.socialBluesky · May 13, 2026

    RIP to the big man Donald Gibb. Most people know his as Ogre from the Revenge of the Nerds movies but real heads also appreciate his performances as Ray Jackson in Bloodsport and Larry the Werewolf in Transylvania 6-5000 www.tmz.com/2026/05/12/d...

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  • Patrick Monahan @pattymo.comBluesky · Apr 26, 2026

    Decent amount of things to recommend the 2021 movie but that is not one of them. These movies really should all just be Bloodsport (minus Young Frank and Love Interest parts)

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  • Brent Simons @brentsimons.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 19, 2025

    One day while temping I met a girl and we started talking about BLOODSPORT (the classic JCVD film). We’ve now been married 23 years! Happy anniversary @bonitagutierrez.bsky.social!

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  • Damned-y G🎃🍌 @dangyd.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 16, 2026

    Jean Claude Van Damme visits the white house and does 100 Thai Kicks live for Trump just like in Bloodsport, his favorite movie

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  • Robin @extrasmall.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 19, 2025

    I rewatched Bloodsport recently and it's cool how Jean Claude Van Damme is the action star for the ladies, the nude scene is crazy but there are genuinely so many moments where the camera is straight up ogling that man's body

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  • Mike Scott-World's #1 Fire Birds Fan @hibachijustice.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 18, 2026

    It's so funny to me that almost every fighting game was inspired by Bloodsport in some way yet none of them will just make fucking Bloodsport. Just give me a goddamn tournament movie!

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  • Fish Sauce Friend @meltedliquid.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 23, 2026

    Randomly remembering the movie Bloodsport exists. Good enough reason to give it a rewatch.

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  • Pants Pants Revolution @pantsrevolution.bsky.socialBluesky · May 13, 2026

    Actor Donald Gibb has passed away at 71 The actor best known for his roles as Ogre in Revenge of the Nerds and Ray Jackson in Bloodsport has died. #Retro #film #television #popculture #obituary

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  • Dr. NerdLove @doctornerdlove.comBluesky · Mar 18, 2026

    Leaving aside that Bloodsport is a perfect movie of its type (in that it’s not a good movie but it’s a GREAT movie)… I think even fewer people were clamoring for a remake than for the Roadhouse remake. But honestly, fuck it, let’s fucking go, I wanna see what she does with this.

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  • Christina Rose @christinarose.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 8, 2026

    It’s wild to watch that envisioned future now, over 20 years later! One of my favorite movies as a kid was Bloodsport, particularly after learning about its influence on Mortal Kombat. Between that and Van Damme appearing in the Street Fighter film, I had to see Timecop! 4/?

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  • Lars S. Sørensen @handansken.eurosky.socialBluesky · Sep 14, 2025

    What is your favourite movie and why is it Bloodsport (1988)?

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  • kuriVAIM 👻 𓃠 @kuriva.imBluesky · Dec 13, 2024

    what if I send a CEO this delightful picture of Bolo Yeung as Chong Li from the classic movie BLOODSPORT (1988)

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  • HELLFRAZIER @popnpizza.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 9, 2023

    Tonight's movie: BLOODSPORT (1987) on 4K Ultra HD (German Import)

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  • jaykeeley @doomedparade.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 20, 2025

    Megadeth. “Let There Be Shred”. 2025. On 1st listen: *cringe* Total cheese fest. And then it occurred to me — no. This HAS to be ironic. The man HAS to be spoofing himself. Surely. The video is literally him in BLOODSPORT. Yes, the JCVD film. So in that context, ok — this is actually kinda… fun 🙃

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  • BACK ISSUE! Magazine @backissuemagazine.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 21, 2025

    Unable to use the assassin Deadshot after Will Smith's involvement in the previous Suicide Squad movie, James Gunn decided to use Idris Elba as the villain Bloodsport instead.

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  • Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 4, 2025

    They should just do the movie Bloodsport but switch out all the fighters with SF II fighters. No explanations, no unnecessary characterizations...just Bloodsport. "Next fighter is against some wild man named Blanka." ::they fight." Blanka loses and is not seen again.

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  • Matthew Essary @wheelscritic.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 7, 2024

    And finally, (I don’t want to bombard you), an interview I did with action filmmaker (and author of the JCVD classic “Bloodsport”) Sheldon Lettich - cinapse.co/2022/12/shel...

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  • MovieMattSirois @moviemattsirois.bsky.socialBluesky · May 13, 2026

    R.I.P. Donald Gibb Best known for Revenge of the Nerds and Bloodsport. He had numerous TV and film appearances. Anytime they needed a big tough looking guy who could not only be intimidating, but could also get a laugh.

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  • Ennie @anyuse.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 16, 2025

    The movie Bloodsport.

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  • Alice in Zombieland @thealice.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 8, 2024

    Saw a six movie Van Damme Action pack in a Menards bargain bin once that somehow didn't include Bloodsport

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  • Dr. Melissa Ocepek @melissa1776.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 9, 2026

    Several months ago I was introduced to the film Bloodsport a supposedly “true story” that was obviously bullshit but cocaine is a hell if a drug and its arguably the best Van Damme flick.

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  • Elly is 3 birds in a gardening hat @almost-elly.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 15, 2026

    Take a movie title, add a colon and another movie's title to make it SOUND like a sequel to the first movie Cannonball Run: First Blood Hudson Hawk: Maverick Hackers: Chain Reaction Total Recall: Die Another Day Bloodsport: The Descent 12 Monkeys: Night at the Museum The Saint: Catch Me If You Can

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  • Leland Sage @lelandsage.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 29, 2025

    Listening to “Fight to Survive” from the movie Bloodsport while eating my carrots and strawberries.

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  • June Blackwell 🏳️‍⚧️ @junipercapita.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 14, 2025

    It’s our fifth film set in China, along with Seven Years in Tibet, Ip Man, Mulan, and Shang-Chi. #HATM #Bloodsport

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