Keanu, a black belt in Judo, has been intermittently training Jiu Jisu under Rigan Machado for the past decade. Keanu reports that it was the intense training for the role of John Wick that got him to engage in BJJ more frequently. Belt rank: White. Status: Intermittently training.
Keanu has not earned a Black Belt in any martial art so far. However, he was granted an honorary Judo Black Belt after preparing for John Wick. Martial arts mastery in not his main objective.
Reeves' martial arts training began in the 1980s when he started studying Karate. Reeves then moved on to study Judo and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ). In fact, Reeves has trained extensively with world-renowned BJJ black belt Rigan Machado, who is one of the top instructors in the world.
Nicolas Cage. Nicolas Cage is a Black belt in jiu-jitsu and studied martial arts for years under the guidance of the jiu-jitsu royalty, Royce Gracie.
Keanu has practiced jujutsu, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, judo and tactical shooting. He is one of the leading actors in Hollywood who is best known for his extraordinary martial arts skills. And those skills are quite visible in John Wick movies as well.
Most notably, Ashton Kutcher of 'That 70s Show' and 'Two and a Half Men' fame, is the proud owner of a BJJ brown belt after taking up the sport 10 years ago.
Jason Statham isn't a black belt in any martial art. The highest rank Jason Statham achieved is a purple belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which he's trained in since 2002 (21 years currently).
Tom Hardy is only a BJJ Blue Belt but he has a grappling experience of 11 years. He competed in 2022 after becoming a Blue Belt in 2021.
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He has achieved his brown belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
After entering the film industry, Chan along with Sammo Hung got the opportunity to train in hapkido under the grand master Jin Pal Kim, and Chan eventually attained a black belt.
It's a skill set he perfected to strengthen the believability of Bourne, a CIA assassin. He started with six months of martial arts training and another six months learning boxing for 2002's "The Bourne Identity."
Keanu, a black belt in Judo, has been intermittently training Jiu Jisu under Rigan Machado for the past decade. Keanu reports that it was the intense training for the role of John Wick that got him to engage in BJJ more frequently. Belt rank: White. Status: Intermittently training.
He has studied Wing Chun, karate, and kickboxing. The film spawned two sequels, Transporter 2 (2005) and Transporter 3 (2008). He also played supporting roles in Mean Machine (2002), The Italian Job (2003), and Cellular (2004) in which he played the lead villain.
Jason has not earned his Black Belt in BJJ so far. He is most likely still a Purple Belt.
None other than Jeet Kune Do, which taught him to assess his actors' physical attributes to determine how they would move and fight. Like Bruce Lee and Donnie Yen before him, John Wick's fighting style “absorbs what is useful and rejects what is useless.”
The John Wick movies also heavily feature Brazilian jiu-jitsu — a crucial part of how Keanu Reeves' trained for John Wick. Brazilian jiu-jitsu, or BJJ, is all about grappling, positioning, and combat on the ground, with chokes and joint manipulations, and is a staple of the MMA world.
" Hanumantha Raju told ESPN. Zuckerberg beat Hanumantha Raju to win the no-gi white belt, 149-pound division at BJJ Tour Silicon Valley.
He's a black belt in karate (and not afraid to throw a punch). In an interview with Playboy, Gordon talked about his experience with a Hell's Kitchen contestant who tried to hit him and said, "I have a black belt in karate.
Gordon Ramsay is a multi-Michelin starred chef who's also known for his star roles in television shows like Hell's Kitchen, MasterChef, and Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares. But, talk about a man of many talents – Chef Ramsay is also a trained martial artist. Ramsay earned his black belt in karate.
Mark Zuckerberg has lately gotten deep into combat sports. The Facebook founder and Meta CEO attended a closed-to–the-public UFC fight card in October. He talked about training in Brazilian jiu-jitsu on the Joe Rogan Experience.
He is trained by 8TH Dan black belt sensei Avi Rokah, a former world and five-time US karate champion who has taught more than 100 black belts. The karate master, 59, set up his dojo in 1982 after moving from his native Israel to Los Angeles.
Thanks Bruce Lee For Helping Him Kick Addiction, Made Him Do Iron Man Stunts at 43. Robert Downey Jr. is known for many things, but most of all, for Iron Man and his crippling addiction before it.
Steven Frederic Seagal (/sɪˈɡɑːl/; born April 10, 1952) is an American-born actor, screenwriter, and martial artist. A 7th-dan black belt in aikido, he began his adult life as a martial arts instructor in Japan and eventually ended up running his father-in-law's dojo.
When he returned to Memphis, Elvis earned his first-degree black belt in 1960 under Chito-Ryu stylist Hank Slemansky. Later, he trained in a Memphis dojo under Master Kang Rhee, who bestowed upon him a seventh degree black belt in March of 1973 and his eighth in September of 1974.
Although Sylvester Stallone has no formal martial arts training that we know of, we must presume that filming 6 Rocky films would have included a lot of boxing training, and that shows in the movies where he does a great job as Rocky Balboa.