Death Match (1994)
Cast

Ian Jacklin
Nick Hill
Matthias Hues
Michele Krasnoo
Steven Leigh
Eric Lee
Benny Urquidez
Dino Homsey
Jamie Krasnoo
Debra Miceli
Lelagi Togisala (Butchie)
Randall Shiro Idieshi
Dick Nasty (Peter London)
Ed O'Neal
Rocky Safardi
Nick Coga
Alan Trammell
Art Camacho
Joey Nguyen
Long Nguyen
Roger Yuan
Tom Blaswick
Tom Butler
Sam Park
Danny Lopez
Pete Anderson
Marcus Cochran
Ron Gaddis
Curtis Honda
Chris S. Koga
Peter Lara
Zak Lee
Mark Lesleah
Geo Medina
Javier Medina
May May Mora
Gabriel Rodriguez
Hector Pena
Jim Avincular
Tony Halme
Choreographers:

Art Camacho (Fights)
: John Larson
: Nick Wallace
: Mark Vanik
: Tammy
: Mr. Han
: Hotel clerk
: Himself / trainer
: Vanik's opponent
: Co-ed fighter
: Co-ed fighter
: Nick's opponent
: Larson's opponent #2
: First arena fighter #1
: First arena fighter #2
: Larson's opponent #1
: Third arena fighter #1
: Third arena fighter #2
: Fighter
: Fighter
: Fighter
: Fighter
: Fighter
: Fighter
: Fighter
: Fighter
: Fighter
: Fighter
: Fighter
: Fighter
: Fighter
: Fighter
: Fighter
: Fighter
: Fighter
: Fighter
: Fighter
: Fighter
: Stick fighter
: Stick fighter
: Mr. Han's bodyguard
Storyline

John and Nick are two good guys, able to fight. Nick is tired for working hard, earning little. He leaves John telling him he wants to join illegal fighting tournaments.

Nick turns out a great fighter but doesn't obey Paul Landis, who organizes everything. Vanik, Landis' champion beats up Nick and they hold him hostage.

Meanwhile John is searching for Nick and teams up with an aggressive girlfriend and a (beautiful) reporter.

John finds out that in order to find Nick, he should join the fights, and he does. He starts training heavily and becomes a great fighter, but only to find and rescue his friend.
My thoughts

Very, very good for an action movie. The story is typical, but if you watch closely, you'll see that the acting is very well done, and the movie isn't aggressive. It's not about revenge and rage, but about friendship.

The cast is very impressive. Some famous lead role fighters, and many unknown fighters.You'll see a lot of different people with different styles.

It's fun to see Hill, Jacklin, Hues, Togisala, Idieshi and Camacho. Some of them teamed up before in several movies. Mainly in Don 'The Dragon' Wilson movies but also others. Look closely and you see that P/M Entertaintment use the same people over and over.
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