Some big fat 1920's Mongolian with manboobs can snap a jab and throw a left hook off it like it's totally natural, but a heavyweight boxing champion of the same era stands in an idiotic 19th century bareknuckle stance and gets beat up by everyone who looks at him?
Apparently everyone in the movie can throw modern boxing punches except the boxer. Because he's not versed in the Mystic Secrets of the East(tm) and thus has to be the bitch.
lol.. I think you hit the nail on the head...
But hey it's a kick movie, we don't watch it for the boring ass boxer...
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It's funny to watch movies like this (and Bloodsport also), because they were done before MMA exposed a lot of fighting misconceptions. They all make it seem as if the best fighters would use kicks and punches exclusively, and like you said, the Eastern (especially Asian) fighters seemed to dominate.
shareI didn't quite understand why maxie divine was made to look like a weakling.
Even in the scene where Chris (van damme) was caught out by his old master, the boxer (oblivious to what was happening) says: "he's not fighting, I am"
To which the old master looks at him strangely and says: "you.. are a fighter?"
You could say that the master was genuinely surprised that maxie divine was fighting instead of chris, but the scene seemed to also suggest that the master didn't think he looked like much of a fighter, which is why asks questionably like that.