Although Seagal is hardly worthy of the title “actor”, according to friends who are into martial arts he is a serious athlete, and a big guy to boot. As a law enforcement officer, I’m sure he’s quite effective.
Gene LeBell choked him out and made him poop his pants.
he’s also reputed to be very good with a 1911.
He is similar to Ed Parker - now I don’t say that lightly Ed Parker was near the top of all martial artists but he was deceptively dangerous...extremely dangerous in a fight and so is Seagal.
Both men share many of the same traits and quite frankly a similar path through their martial arts experience.
If you don’t know about Ed Parker search him out on the web, watch his videos and research the history of Seagal you will see just how similar these two are and just how lethal either one of them could be.