Martial Arts/MMA documentaries

[Mick Dojang]

Post your favourite documentaries about MMA or martial arts in general

Just watched the '100 Man Fight' about Judd Reid doing the Kyokushin 100 man kumite. Definitely worth a watch, Reid was one of Mas Oyama's live-in students and attempts the 100-man kumite aged 40. Nice to see that that insane toughness still exists in some TMAs and it hasn't all gone the way of strip mall kids classes.




This was an interesting documentary (released the same year as Reid's kumite, coincidentally) from Ireland about the bare-knuckle boxing culture among Travellers (where it's used as a means of settling scores). The guy filmed a family over the course of 12 years, seeing how the various beefs evolved over time (and were kept going in many ways because the previous beef had been solved by a fight):



Edit:
Also should add Napoleon Blownapart's wonderful Never Die: The Rise and Fall of Pride FC

 

[VinceArch]

I'd love to see a documentary on Chute Box and some of the participants and members of the wars that went on in that gym.

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

The Smashing Machine

 

[reddhelium]

Choke

Rickson Gracie Bio

400-0 FTW!

 

[johny ringo]

“Once I was a Champion” the Evan Tanner documentary

 

[TCE]

PRIDE Decade
UFC Beyond the Glory

 

[Ares Black]

Fightville, featuring a pre-UFC Dustin Poirier. It's a great movie.

 

[Bobby Boulders]

In. This is gonna be baller AF

 

[Bobby Boulders]

It isn't MMA, but it is still martial arts. When We Were Kings is probably the greatest sports documentary I've ever seen. It really allows you to understand the context to the Ali/Foreman fight, and adds to Ali's legend. So mean he made medicine sick.

 

[2004 account]

This is still my favorite for how emotionally raw and real it was (the smashing machine)

 

[The Bloody Nine]

Bloodsport. 100 percent factual documentary.

 

[Bobby Boulders]

 

[Mick Dojang]

Bloodsport. 100 percent factual documentary.

The kumite did actually happen, but it started at UFC1

 

[The Bloody Nine]

The kumite did actually happen, but it started at UFC1

It's a shame the real Frank Dux wasn't allowed to enter UFC1 due to him being too deadly.

Dux was also the inspiration for fictional characters such as James Bond and Hulk Hogan.

 

[Mick Dojang]

The Smashing Machine

Just watched it, great recommendation. Surprisingly emotional documentary, I hadn't expected it

 

[Deceasedxo]

That 100 'fight' video is the lamest shit I've seen. Not one of those point karate sparring matches can be called a fight. Literally just did a long one on one shark tank n acting like he went to war.

 

[Bobby Boulders]

 

[amok attitude]

Its not really documentaries but i used to love the fight quest shows.
And on youtube, during the pandemic, one of the guys did some videos about the different episodes and the stories attached to those.
Otherwise the smashing machine and for the french speakers i recommend "toutes les forces"