Philo Beddoe





Philo Beddoe: I'm not afraid of any man, but when it comes to sharing my feelings with a woman, my stomach turns to jelly.


vs

Frank Dux




[Frank has just won his first fight in record time]
Jackson: His first fight in the kumite and he broke the f***ing world record!

Hossein: WHAT DID YOU CALL ME?
Janice Kent: Do you want me to spell it out for you?
Frank Dux: [prevents Hossein from smacking Janice Kent] Leave the girl alone.


Can the Bare Knuckle Brawler defeat the king of the Kumite?? Voting goes until Sunday night.

Muscles from Brussels

I sense a helicopter kick in Philo's future.

I only voted for Dux before because Vin Diesel is teh suck.

Philo.

Van Damme is "teh suck" as well. Eastwood, regardless of his incarnation, trumps virtually anyone.

Come on...Van Damme? Beat Eastwood? Bwahahahahahaha!!!!

Clyde the Orang-Utan would beat van Damme.

Right turn, Clyde.

My vote is for Clint.

While I think Eastwood is a dramatically superior actor, I would actually bet on Van Damme to defeat him in an actual fight. Here's a history of Van Damme's fight career from Wikipedia--

"At the age of eighteen, Van Damme embarked on his quest to capture a world martial arts title. Training under master Claude Goetz in Brussels, Belgium, Jean-Claude developed an impressive array of kicks and strikes. In Antwerp, Belgium, Van Damme, fighting under his birth name of Jean-Claude Van Varenberg, made his fighting debut by knocking out Eric Strauss in 23 seconds of the first round with a spinning back fist. A week later, he stopped Emile Leibman with an axe-kick in 33 seconds of a scheduled 3-round full-contact middleweight match in Isegham, Belgium. With-in a span of five months, Jean-Claude added first round victories over Andre Robaeys, Jacques Piniarski, and Rolf Risberg, to improve his full-contact karate record to 5-0 (5 knockouts). After knocking out Jean-Claude Bollaert to win the Belgium Middleweight Full-Contact Championship in Brussels, many European martial arts experts viewed Van Damme as a promising prospects. Among those who expressed this view were Mike Anders-founder of Professional Karate Magazine, and multiple European Karate champion, Gert Lemmens. Next, Van Damme captured the European Middleweight Full-Contact Championship by a knockout in 21 seconds. In 1979, Van Damme traveled to Florida in the United States to fight in the WAKO World Full-Contact Championships in Orlando. In his first U.S. match, Van Damme (still fighting as Jean-Claude Van Varenberg) defeated Sherman "Big Train" Bergman from Miami, by first round victory. However, in his next match, Jean-Claude lost to fellow countryman, Patrick Teugels, thus failing in his bid to capture a world title. In 1980, Van Damme continued his ring career in his hometown of Brussels. After scoring a second round knockout over a fighter named Verlugels, he signed for a rematch with Patrick Teugels. This time it was Jean-Claude Van Damme whose hand was held up in victory; he knocked out Teugels in less then 2 minutes. Following this victory, Van Damme announced his retirement from active competition. Some sources list his full-contact record as 12-1 (12 knockouts), others as 10-1 (10 knockouts), and 9-1 (9 knockouts)."

Meanwhile, everytime I've seen Clint throw a punch in a film, I've been less than impressed by his form. All arm, not enough waist and leg pivot.

Philo

Clint's tougher!

Btw, this is not even a fair contest. I barely remember any of Van Damme's movies.

I don't view it as a battle between the actors, though; it's the characters, and I vote for Philo.

I was referring to Simon's post, where he refers to the actors, not the characters.

The question may be...can Philo beat Dux at KARATE CHAMP?

No, but he can beat him senseless with the game console.

I don't rememeber Clint's movie too much.

The Van Damme character was an ultimate tough guy in terms of fighting though, not so much in terms of aura/personality.

Needs some more votes

God.....I hate to do this, but Van Damme really could kick his ass.............BUT WAIT!!!!!
There's always Clyde as backup!
And pissed off 'rangatangs are mean mothers!
So Philo gets the vote!

Way to go, Clint!