Shocking Admission from Don "The Dragon" Wilson!!!

[@MrBruce5437]

That's one thing I like about Don the dragon Wilson.. he is realistic, a realist and a real legitimate martial artist and actor.. and a Kung Fu master

[@kurtfranklin2680]

Too real for Hollywood.

[@Hotsauce-cj7kj]

Quite funny too. Uppitty happy funny persona if I may.

[@gunsharck]

I really liked his analysis on UFC

[@MrBruce5437]

@@kurtfranklin2680 exactly and he is underrated, along with other underrated actors/ martial artist like Billy blanks, Richard Norton, Cynthia rothrock, Michelle yeoh, Jeff speakman, Jeff wincott, Lorenzo lamas, chuck norris, dale Apollo Cooke, Keith Cooke, Jalal merhi, Karen shepherd, michael worth, gary Daniels, Daniel bernhardt, j c vandamme, thomas Ian Griffith, michael dudikoff, Ron Hall, Benny the jet urquidez, taimak, the late jim Kelly, Simon Rhee, his brother Phillip Rhee, Cynthia Khan, Moon Lee, the late Sonny Chiba, Sho Kosugi, Keith Vitali, Ron Manchini and Loren Avedon

[@MrBruce5437]

@@gunsharck yes...me too..he is a realist...he is so right about van damme, van damme is not a kickboxing champion, although vandamme had a kickboxing fighting bouts..about 19 bouts..with 18-1 record, 18 knockout wins..but kickboxing championship, nope....but he was a karate champion in 1979, retired in 1980 or 1982 around there.

[@eddiebee007]

You have to jump in quickly when you are talking to Don! Awesome story!

[@BishopWalters12]

Very cool story, I don't think anyone could've saved that movie but RIP Raul Julia, he did his best and gave an entertaining performance.

[@Billy-bc8pk]

One of the most iconic speeches in movie history that people still quote to this very day. So he made it worth it.

[@MrBruce5437]

@@Billy-bc8pk exactly....Raul Julia..was a legendary..that was one of his best performance in street fighter 1994 film...played a fighting game character Bison..the movie was also a tribute and dedication to him...may God rest his soul

[@franciscocordova1861]

​​​@@Billy-bc8pkFor us.But for Raul,it was tuesday.

[@Summon256]

Okay it was campy as heck i get it, but nowhere nearly as bad as anyone claims! You wanna know a bad fighting game live action adaptation? Freaking Tekken dude, now THAT is a really bad one! Left such a stench in my mouth just watching it back in the day! There were a couple more bad ones like KoF with Maggie Q as Mai Shiranui ughh...what? Maggie Q as Mai Shiranui Carl! HAHAHAh Then you had that campy DoA movie with Jaime Pressly as Tina Armstrong posing in every scene she appeared in instead of fighting LOL. That horrible Chun-Li spin-off with Kristin Kreuk as Chun-Li nobgody even asked, where each character is massively miscast. And don't get me started on some of the really bad sequels to fighting games like MK Annihilation, yet another Tekken movie and god knows what else! All things considered Street Fighter movie is not the worst thing that ever happened to fighting games live action adaptations, at least it had decent actors who at least tried to act in it, smething that can't be said about any others with the exception of maybe original Mortal Kombat, but that's about it!

[@clarkparker4860]

I thought I was an expert. I never knew Don Wilson was in talks for Street Fighter.

[@GothamKnight84661]

@clarkparker4860 Neither that i, I've been a fan of Don Wilson's for decades. I never knew he was at point in talks to be in the Street Fighter 94 film.

[@MrBruce5437]

@@GothamKnight84661 wow I never know this one..I only hearing this from the master Sifu himself Don

[@mariorodriguezjunior]

Don as Ryu? Gary Daniels as Ken 😃 that would've been great.

[@solotravelermart]

It was going to be van damme Vs don Wilson in street fighter

[@jamesvaughn4126]

That would been cool

[@MrBruce5437]

@@jamesvaughn4126 but it never happen....but I real life, Sifu Don the dragon wilson allegedly challenged vandamme to a real kickboxing bout in the ring and van damme turned it down..allegedly...don't know if that was true...maybe Sifu Don, should clear the air on that one

[@istersen]

Nice story - more video like that in the future please

[@emptyblank099a]

He loves to yap. lol

[@jacekernestowicz5469]

An interesting story about the street fighter film, The Dragon Wilson, it's a pity it wasn't in this film. for me too, the script is weak. Still the best film in the category of video games with martial arts, Mortal Kombat in 1995 and pleasant music. I hope the remake of Street fighter will be a better film and popular, maybe you will appear in this movie.

[@kurtfranklin2680]

Yeah. This is a story, I’m sure has happened to a lot of people. Schwarzenegger butted heads with Dino DeLaurentis a couple times because he would tell him he was full of it. And they would have a dust up, but then Dino realize Schwarzenegger was right and call him back. Hard to find real honest people. Especially in entertainment. Bunch of phonies and fragile egos. A lot of people don’t like to hear real stuff. Real recognize real. Stallone hired Carl Weathers to play Apollo though he insulted Stallone‘s acting and was very cocky and aggressive with him. Stallone didn’t let his ego get in the way of the fact that Carl was perfect for the role.

[@Billy-bc8pk]

Stallone is probably the only A-lister where he put his ego aside to do what was right for the film. I can only imagine the horror stories of trying to get everybody together and direct the first Expendables. I can see why he passed on directing the sequel. But yeah you're 100% correct, Stallone also hired in Dolph even though he was very envious of his looks, height and intellect at the time, but Stallone knew that Dolph would make the movie better. Also, Stallone originally wanted Van Damme for Demolition Man (which is why Simon Phoenix was written to be a bad@$$ martial artist after coming out of the cryo chamber), but Van Damme at the time said he was not going to be playing as a villain anymore, so they scrambled to find a replacement (that script originally wanted Arnold vs Stallone and then Van Damme vs Seagal, and then Stallone vs Van Damme, but no one wanted to play the villain). It eventually went to Wesley Snipes, and thank goodness because he really made that role shine. But yeah, there appears to be one story after another of STallone attempting to put ego aside to do what was right for the movie.

[@themoviechamp6927]

No matter what you say about streetfighter no matter how bad it is the movie still made $101 million dollars. The only street fighter movie we actually got was enter the dragon and Mortal Kombat

[@Brinkburn_Gymnasium]

Followed your channel for a while now. Really enjoy the Stallone and Van Damme content. I finally got round to watching The Last Kumite, you know what ? It was a good film! You can see the effort that was put in to it, fight scenes were excellent! Well done!

[@americanosbadassius9292]

Man, do I ever wish I was living in the 90s today. Hopefully, with Trump back in office, we can bring that atmosphere back into the nation and maybe it'll even be better this time!

[@PhilosophyForLife]

The 90s led to all the problems of today in a straight line. Wake up and get real.

[@themoviechamp6927]

I believe that the Dragon Wilson and he is a fantastic person and I think he would’ve been a great addition to street fighter if they would’ve just stuck to the story of the game

[@Shadowking81]

Van Damme had turned down Mortal Kombat 1995 (big mistake) and after the success of MK, he must have thought like "I was wrong about the Mortal Kombat movie" Street Fighter was a bad movie 😅 He made a few poor choices or must have listened to the wrong people at the time. Don "The Dragon" Wilson would have been PERFECT for Liu Kang's role in Mortal Kombat in 1995 👍 and Van Damme was originally supposed to be Johnny Cage which is what the actual video game character is pretty much based off 😂 Oh and Cynthia Rothrock should have been called to play Sonya Blade's character since that was who Sonya Blade was based off of

[@NH1973]

Wasn't Streetfighter made in 1994?

[@Shadowking81]

@NH1973 you're right 94-95 just Van Damme picked the wrong one out of the 2 he should have taken the Mortal Kombat one

[@NH1973]

​@@Shadowking81definitely agree. He was totally wrong for Streetfighter, but would have been perfect as Johnny Cage in MK.

[@Shadowking81]

@NH1973 yeah MK was the superior movie 🎬 I watched Street Fighter a bunch of times but it was too light to say it. Gave me vibes of the Double Dragon movie 😂 not too much replay value to me

[@kurtfranklin2680]

He picked streetfighter over Mortal Kombat because he was paid more, simple as that. He probably would’ve made Mortal Kombat a worse movie as by his own admission he was spending thousands a week on cocaine. We may have seen a street fighter sequel instead of a Mortal Kombat one.

[@NH1973]

Don Wilson as Ryu would have worked. Or maybe as M Bison. Guile should have been Dolph Lundgren with his Drago haircut. Sagat should have been Michel Qissi, not Wes Studi. That Van Damme movie was really poor. They should have stuck to following the video game.

[@salvatorespano7599]

What are your thoughts on all 8 of the Bloodfist movies and the Ring of Fire Trilogy? And which is your favourite of the bunch? 🥊🥊🥋🥋👊👊💪💪

[@jamesc8259]

Don the Dragon Wilson dodged a bullet not being in Street Fighter. Most of the budget went to JCVD

[@AJ-ts9de]

Let’s be honest, a lot of actors aren’t gonna say it was about money they wanted to get payed and certain actors they didn’t wanna be part of. As for Don he had a great career no disputing there ✌🏻

[@reikopatzold6649]

😎💪🤘

[@MrBruce5437]

Sifu Don the dragon Wilson is underrated

[@Diggy22]

Don wasn't wrong about the script. Van Damme had to get hammered just to get through shooting because the script was so ridiculous. Raul Julia (R.I.P.) was in his last days, so he wanted to go all out playing a role for his kids to remember him by. And every other actor was using the movie for a solid paycheck or a tool to get their face out there.

[@theflyingninja1]

I like a few of Dons films, but I don't think he could have saved Street Fighter. That film was such a disappointment... Though I enjoy it nowadays for its nostalgic charm.

[@ToshiroMifuneSamurai]

2:52 I don't know who that is, but he knows what he's talking about!

[@GothamKnight84661]

Don The Dragon Wilson could'ev been in Street Fighter 1994? bad enough Gary Daniels wasn't cast as Ken Masters but passing Don the Dragon Wilson? 😒😒😒😒

[@VikingSamurai]

Gary Daniels accent would've never worked for an American

[@GothamKnight84661]

@@VikingSamurai Yeah, that's the only issue is the british accent but i would take him over Damien Chapa. Gary did dress up like Ken Masters in the Jackie Chan City Hunter movie where he looked like Ken from the video games / anime.

[@Billy-bc8pk]

@@GothamKnight84661 Yeah it's amazing that his cosplay in that movie was more accurate than the actual Street Fighter movie.

[@jokerfleckcast3196]

Damien chapa wants his chon chon! ​@@GothamKnight84661

[@GothamKnight84661]

@@Billy-bc8pk Wong Jing directed a more accurate Street Fighter scene that was so spot on.

[@chengfu7063]

So he was going to be feilong if not sawada interesting don the dragon paying homage to the greatest of all time the legendary Bruce Lee by being feilong that could have worked certainly Kung lao as well considering the whole pit fighter thing the character Ty is based of don the Dragon legendary as always

[@antoniocapulera]

Jean-Claude Van Damme didn’t want to work with Don Wilson because Don Wilson is a real fighter! I agree with Master Don about the movie! It was Raul Julia’s last movie while he was dying of stomach cancer as well. So sad! I don’t watch that movie because I loved “Gomez Addams” too much to see him in pain like that. Red Sun Rising should have had a sequel like yesterday! Red Sun Rising was one of my favorites! 🫡💫🎨🙏🏻🥋

[@MrBruce5437]

@@antoniocapulera this is so true

[@themoviechamp6927]

Are you kidding me? Van Damme has worked with many real fighters and many of his movies if you go and look at it, you will see. Who wants to be in a movie with a guy who’s constantly calling you a fraud all the time?

[@antoniocapulera]

@ well to answer you, Jean Claude played Master Frank Dux who had been called the same thing by Master Don. It’s kind of a “Love to hate” relationship between them both. Master Don is a “big fan” of JCVD, he just doesn’t like how Master Frank Dux “stays in character” to protect the business. Everything in this business depends on Kayfabe; It’s the Magic. These guys not ever forget that when making us pictures. Keep the Kayfabe! 🫡💫🎨❤️

[@yotoober1]

Hint: when you interview someone, ask the questions, them let them talk, don't keep talking over them and interrupting their answers

[@VikingSamurai]

I have to direct the conversation a certain way, if you watch more interviews on my channel you'll see that I do a ton of listening and get really great stories. In this particular case, we're on set working on a film together and I didn't have a ton of time to get this cool story.

[@yotoober1]

I understand. Sometimes you have to keep the interviewee focused otherwise the conversation will go all over the place. Didn't know you were on a set pressed for time. I watch lots of KZbin interviews from so genres and it's a remark that I make frequently to help people improve their game. It's all good.

[@VikingSamurai]

Definitely check out the movie next year, it's called Natural Born Fighter, we got Don Wilson and Tong Po (Mohammed Qissi) in it.

[@shelydon78]

Ryu or FEI long

[@thebodybeatdownDiTi]

I didnt like the movie way back then..and still dont..lol..It was bad. BUT it might have been better had Don been there to have it out with Van Damme at some point.

[@Greatsport99]

Don had many opportunities. I personally think if he gained 20-30 pounds on his frame, he would have been an elite action star combined with his kickboxing record. I also understand Don never wanted to fight in a heavyweight division, so chose to stay in a lighter division. Sometimes acting along big names can catapult your career. For example Bolo and Van Damme, Jackie Chan and Bruce, Dolph and Stallone, Apollo and Rocky, Patrick and Arnold. Sometimes it is better to support each other. Don was somewhat lone wolf.

[@GothamKnight84661]

He did well for himself @Greatsport99

[@oldskool8441]

That's because he was absolutely sh** at acting.

[@johndough8115]

Bruce Lee was under 150 lbs, and he had no problem becoming a Global Star. Its not the Weight that was the problem. Its that he lacks the required level of Charisma, as well as his poor Acting abilities. Also, the average Joe doesnt care about a fighters "Records". Only snobby fanboys, obsess over that crap... and they are a very small Minority. Also.. Bruce Lee didnt have sport records... but few sport fighters ever wanted to Tango with Lee. At best, they would be introduced.. get seriously impressed, and then train with Lee, to learn some of the stuff he was teaching. Finally.. being heavier, leads to a lot of Disadvantages in your fighting abilities. The more mass... the slower the acceleration, and thus the slower the slower the movements. Its also takes far more energy, to move that larger mass around... leading to quicker Fatigue. Depending on how you train, and how big you get... you can also lose Flexibility, and Mobility / Range of Motion. You also become a much larger Target, easier for an OP to score a hit on. And while you may have more mass power potentials on Impact... if the Opponent is much faster, you might not be able to score an actual hit... thus, it just becomes wasted energy. In fact, Bruce Lee bulked up at one point in his Career. He started to notice that his acceleration / speed was suffering... and as a result, he stopped lifting weights, and trimmed back down a bit... to regain his Speed back.

[@Greatsport99]

@@johndough8115 If being big slows you down, all heavyweights in UFC and boxing would have been horrible fighters. If u have a talent, you can move fast even when you are 235-245 pounds. Try to fight Michael Jai White, he will send you to hospital with broken bones all over. Regarding his acting, Van Damme barely spoke English and his acting was below any level. Action movies is all about action.

[@oldskool8441]

@@Greatsport99 Michael Jai White 😂😂😂

[@themoviechamp6927]

I like Dom the dragon Wilson, but I think he’s flagging John Claude and him a little too much and just needs to let it go man

[@deathcold_longplaysua4846]

There is better Street Fighter movie called Street Fighter The Assassin Fist. It follows the origin story of Ryu, Ken and their master Gouken, along with his brother Gouki aka Akuma. It is follows the game 100%. Both Ryu and Ken has their video game looks and moves, Akuma looks like Akuma and it is just in general incredible movie! So if you didn't watched it, Viking Samurai then I highly recommend you to do so. Originally it was released as the web series back in 2013 - 2015, but later it was put out as a full movie. So yeah, check it out and trust me, it is worth the watch if you are Street Fighter fan.

[@BWater-yq3jx]

Were your parking spots about to run out of time?? 😆

[@VikingSamurai]

@@BWater-yq3jx no, but we're in the middle of filming a movie out here in Sacramento, so had limited time.

[@abrahamchisomonamasasu]

Who's the other dude. Not that I'm complaining, just curious.

[@VikingSamurai]

Joe

[@MrBruce5437]

​@@VikingSamuraiohhh bro viking, blessings to you

[@JeffHowell-eh9fb]

Viking samurai

[@Zorta58nb]

Third!

[@jfearless3420]

Don Wilson doesnt look like any of the characters in street fighter.

[@Gregory-v9n]

It would have been better if Don got to play Ryu. 😀