[Dan from Michigan]

Bloodsport is a fairly well known action movie that came out around 1988. It was one of Jean Claude Van Damme's first movies. It was supposedly based on a true story.

The movie is about Dux being the first American to win win the Kumite, a martial arts full contact underground competition.

In the movie Dux goes AWOL from the military to compete? Same guy?

[cwb]

I don't know if this is the same Frank Dux, but according to Google, it appears that Dux and Kerry have a lot in common: They both like to exaggerate their Vietnam experience. There are several threads on Dux being a fraud...and I found this post interesting:

"Have you ever heard of guy named Frank Dux?

This is the man who was the subject of the movie "Bloodsport" starring Jean Claude Van Damme, and the book The Secret Man. Well, Frank Dux is a phony. A bullshitter. A con man who conned a publisher and a movie maker.

I'm reading Stolen Valor by B. G. Burkett. Stolen Valor is a book about phonies who claim to be combat veterans of the Vietnam War. Burkett, who uses the Freedom of Information Act, has unmasked hundreds of phoney Vietnam "veterans" and "war heroes." Among them is Frank Dux, the purported military hero/
Ninja fighter/secret agent.

Frank Dux served in the Marine Reserve in the 1970s--AFTER Vietnam. He was given a psychiatric evaluation for grandiose delusions. He did NOT hold the Navy Cross, Silver Star,
DSC, Bronze Star, Navy and Marine Corps Medal, Purple Heart, and--get this--a "secret" Medal of Honor. He was no master Ninja fighter, either.

If you see the book The Secret Man, it's bullshit. "Bloodsport" is also fiction."

Orville H. Larson