The Nineties have been a wild time. Invoice Clinton was in The White Home, Spice Women freely roamed the Earth, and apparently Jean Claude Van Damme was attempting to combat individuals at events. At the very least that’s in accordance with fellow legendary action movie star Sylvester Stallone. Because the star of Cliffhanger and Demolition Man tells it, he threw a celebration in 1997 at which each Van Damme and yet one more action star, Aikido professional Steven Seagal, was current.
Sooner or later within the night, Van Damme acquired upset and challenged Seagal to a one on-one combat in Stallone’s yard. Reportedly, Van Damme had caught wind that Seagal had been telling those that he may take the Bloodsport star in a combat and acquired fed up. Whereas this sounds extra just like the form of situation you’d anticipate from 14-year-old boys hopped up on Jolt Soda, apparently that is what occurred.
However it didn’t finish there. Whereas Stallone says Steven Seagal made excuses and left the get together, Jean-Claude Van Damme adopted him, insisting on a combat. Stallone additionally went on to assert that he was positive Van Damme would have received and Seagal was not up for the combat. All of that is Hollywood lore, however there isn’t a motive to assume Stallone could be exaggerating any of it. Seagal is well-known for regularly and loudly claiming that he may defeat any fighter you can title, together with Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris.
He was so infamous for disrespecting different martial artists {that a} group of well-known kickboxers and karate champions banded collectively and collectively referred to as out the Underneath Siege star to face any of them. Regardless of his claims, Seagal by no means responded to any of their challenges. And whereas we received’t throw any particular shade right here, Van Damme has a public file of dozens of victories in each full- and semi contact martial arts championships, whereas Seagal…much less so.
For his half, Jean-Claude Van Damme was himself recognized for his volatility and (in accordance with himself) conceitedness on the time. His publicly admitted substance abuse points have been at their peak proper round that interval within the Nineties, and it’s possible that neither Van Damme nor Seagal got here off significantly effectively of their interactions at Stallone’s get together. After all, Van Damme apparently as soon as broke into Stallone’s home so as to meet the action legend, so plainly the Rambo star was simply fairly okay with this type of habits.
Since their Nineties heyday, each Jean Claude Van Damme and Steven Seagal noticed their stardom waning. In latest many years, each have turn out to be staples of direct-to-DVD action movies (which, hey, it’s work).
Van Damme has turn out to be notably philosophical and self-aware of his earlier profession and habits, and has performed a latter-day, broken-down model of himself in a number of movies, together with the well-received JCVD. He has introduced his retirement from action movies with subsequent 12 months’s What’s My Identify?, through which he’ll play an amnesiac model of himself encountering variations of his previous well-known fights. Seagal has been a citizen of the Russian Federation since 2016, and vocal in his assist of the Putin-led Kremlin.
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