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Jean Claude Van Damme - Behind The Public Image
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calendar_month2011
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Warrener, Don. (2011). Jean Claude Van Damme - Behind The Public Image. FightingArts.com
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- AuthorWarrener, Don
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Interview article by Don Warrener with Jean-Claude Van Damme, which also looks back at Van Damme's amateur fighting career and his 1980 bout against Verlugels. It records that Claude Goetz was Van Damme's karate teacher and that Goetz studied with Tsutomu Oshima, a disciple of Gichin Funakoshi. Cites the 1980 Brussels event featuring Dan Macaruso versus Dominique Valera.
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- Peer reviewNot peer-reviewed
- Accessed../2026-08-19
- Languageen
- URLhttps://fightingarts.com/reading/article.php?id=320
- Archived copyhttps://web.archive.org/web/20230207193432/https://fightingarts.com/reading/article.php?id=320
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Muñoz, Frederico (YEAR_PLACEHOLDER). Jean Claude Van Damme - Behind The Public
Image. In Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database.
https://martial.is/entity/01M040GCQ9V8C08G66KAT55V0V - CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed
ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER.
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@incollection{martialis_01M040GCQ9V8C08G66KAT55V0V, author = {Muñoz, Frederico},
title = {Jean Claude Van Damme - Behind The Public Image}, booktitle =
{Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database}, year = {YEAR_PLACEHOLDER}, url =
{https://martial.is/entity/01M040GCQ9V8C08G66KAT55V0V}, urldate =
{ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER}, note = {CC BY-SA 4.0} }
https://martial.is/entity/01M040GCQ9V8C08G66KAT55V0V
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