In reality Tyson wouldn't even draw blood from IP. He is slow, old and past it. Not to mention boxers only use their hands/ elbows whilst IP can use all that plus his legs and is more nimble (flips etc). Tyson should just retire he ruined this movie for me.
shareI was pretty impressed by their fight scene in the movie. Tyson looked fast and dangerous, coming at Ip Man like a rhino. He only manages to land a couple direct pushes on Ip Man but you can see the devastating effect they were having on him. It's all Ip Man can do to keep up and dodge, while landing a few blows of his own. Their draw at the end seems well deserved.
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You think in real life Donkey Yen can fight as well as Ip Man, or any roles he played in the movie ?
They need a big western name to sell this movie in the west. See their English trailer, even the first few big words "The Grandmaster Returns", cashing on the success of Wong Kar Wai's The Grandmaster, also about Ip Man.
Yes Donnie Yen can fight well. He is always training and mixing up styles. You know that something called MMA. He might be small but he is fast, agile and strong. Of course you could only tell for sure if a fight is real. Then again in a real fight anything goes and I am pretty sure that someone who is fit and trained well would do much better than someone who isn't.
Your comment on the big western name does not have anything to do with his skills. This film would have been a hit just as much without Mike Tyson. In fact I think that Mike Tyson's bit was the least interesting to me. Donnie Yen has been around for a long time and he apart from the few odd choices has done real well and is being recognized by the people that matter. Just because the general public is not that familiar doesn't mean he or his films are lesser products. Donnie Yen serves a niche. And as long as people have different tastes and preferences you will have niches. Having commercial success means diddly. Especially in this day and age where people can't wait to jump on the bandwagon and praise films because of hype instead of quality.
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Haha that's pretty funny. Are you on drugs? I promise you, even now, one good punch from iron Mike and Donnie yen is unconcious. Have you seen his fights? His punching power is probably still there, and he was one of the most devastating heavyweights in history. You sir are a total idiot if you think he is not extremely dangerous.
shareYet here in the real world Tyson was exposed as a fraud who beat up on tomato cans, He was obliterated when He stepped to the best of his era, and don't bring up no damn "he wasn't in his prime" garbage, neither were Lewis or Holyfield and both are older and had been in more wars than Mike. Lewis had the jab and size and holyfield had no fear Tyson went from bully to p***y in all 3 fights. He even got slaughtered by a scrub in Douglas.
shareActually.. Mike Tyson was hurt during the shooting. Donnie Yen broke Mike's index finger.
"All of you were worried that Donnie will get injured. Nobody cared about me. Now I am injured, still nobody came to console me," Mike Tyson joked.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/mike-tyson-donnie-yen-fractured-finger-095600854.html
This is ridiculous. Tyson in the film, really? So no Ip Man either, Donnie Yen and Tyson were fighting for real...ok 12 year old trolls posting here again...or take your medicine and get help.
shareTyson only needs to land a few punches. Tyson had 8 fights that lasted under 1 minute, as a fictional show this is assuming Tyson is fighting from in his prime state, not super old like he is now.
shareblocking punches with elbows is extremely effective in real life, but it is banned in boxing, because the elbow blocker always wins.
ELBOW BLOCKING IS BANNED IS BOXING< because it gives the blocker a huge advantage.
In many cases, if tyson actually punched, his fists would be broken because, the elbow is infinitely stronger than the brittle finger bones.
Elbow blocking has never been banned in boxing, genius.
shareYou can't view this based entirely on reality because Tyson's character on screen is NOT Mike Tyson.
Besides its not like Ip Man was a young stud in his prime fighting an old boxer. Ip Man in this movie is at least in his late 30s to early 40s.
Actually he was supposed to be 67 in the movie. Yip Man was born in 1893 and the movie takes place in the years of 1959-1960.
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I didn't like the fight scene the first time, but I really enjoyed it the second time. You have to compare it to the boxing match in Ip Man 2.
Ip Man in the movie (not Donnie Yen) is a 50 year old martial arts master who smokes. That doesn't make him this super fighter. Twister was the heavyweight boxing champ, so he's used to taking punches, from people less strong than Ip Man.
So Frankie in the third movie is American and obviously a boxer, so that would mean that Ip Man would have trouble taking him on. A boxer would be used to haymakers and big hits, and Wing chun is about smaller punches with less force, but more numerous.
I'm really glad Mike Tyson was not the big baddie in the movie, and the final climax was against Max Zhang.