Boll Wins Fights--And Maybe a Little Respect?
As previously reported on Lucid Forge, Boll, the notorious director of the video game adaptations House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark, and BloodRayne, earlier this year challenged his harshest critics to face him in the boxing ring on the Vancouver set of his latest film. Out of a number of applicants, five were chosen including Rue Morgue reviewer Chris Alexander who was interviewed last week by our e-zine. The fight took place in an outdoor venue in downtown Vancouver Saturday afternoon with all the flair of three-ring circus as Boll took each opponent in turn while German techno and metal created a blaring soundtrack and 600 fans cheered from the sidelines.
One great moment of the fight involved Alexander faking out Boll and the crowd by spitting out fake blood after a punch to mouth. “I freaked him out exactly like I wanted to do; it was poetry,” Alexander told reporters after the fight. “It was my Jedi mind trick to try and disorient him.”
Ain’t-It-Cool-News correspondent Jeff Sneider (AKA: Mirajeff) was forced to cede his bout due to a technical knockout. Reviewer Nelson Chance Minter, for his part, came out of his fight with a new found admiration for Boll from his little “publicity stunt.” This new attitude of fraternity was one shared by Boll and these, his staunchest critics, as Boll and Alexander sat together and joked between rounds.
Not all were pleased though; Richard Kyanka of SomethingAwful.com complained that Boll was merciless, despite his assurances to the contrary. “Uwe Boll told me before the fight, ‘Don't worry, it’s just a PR stunt, I am not fighting for real’ and then he (obviously) did. So after being smacked in the head, I said ‘F**k this’ and STAYED THE F**K DOWN,” Kyanka said after his
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