The best (and worst!) MMA movies (and TV series) of all time
(This story was updated to add new information.)
The 97th Academy Awards have arrived. Suffice it to say, the 'Road House' reboot didn't make the cut in any categories. Still, it's movie season, so here's a list of MMA movies and TV series you might want to spend some time with – including a new series from France that has some high-profile cameos.
(And if we left some off the list, don't be offended. For the record, if a movie was purely karate or kickboxing or boxing, etc., we left it off – we're looking for reasonably modern-era mixed martial arts/cagefighting kind of stuff to make the cut for this list. Sorry, old Bruce Lee and Jean Claude Van Damme flicks. We'll save you for a different list.)
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