EPISODE 167: The Best (and Worst) of Kumite.

The Pink Smoke’s Christopher Funderburg recently joined Pinnland Empire’s Marcus Pinn on the Wrong Reel podcast to discuss the underground fighting genre in all its forms: from stories about American bare-knuckle brawlers to kung fu classics about mysterious tournaments to the genre’s influence on video games (and vice versa), all the way up to the DTV-era. Most importantly, they discuss Jean-Claude Van Damme crystalizing the format with films like Kickboxer, Lionheart and the beating heart of our kumite legends, Bloodsport.

~ July 29, 2016 ~