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By JON DI PAOLO
September 27, 2006
A FILM director became so fed up with critics slating his work he challenged them to a fight - and knocked four of them out.
German film-maker Uwe Boll, who specialises in adaptations of video games, took on four of his critics in a Vancouver boxing ring.
Each bout ended with a knockout.
Afterwards Boll, the director of vampire flick BloodRayne, said: "I now like the critics. Everybody who was in the ring showed [guts]. Nobody dived."
However, one of the defeated critics - Richard Kyanka - later claimed he had been set up for a beating.
He said Boll had told his opponents the fights were not to be taken seriously, and were just a PR stunt.
But when they came to face him in the ring, the 41-year-old former amateur boxer started to throw hard punches.
Kyanka, who was knocked out in the first round, said: "I thought it was a PR stunt and it was a joke and he was going to be nice. And then he just brutalised me."
Boll hit upon the idea of a fight night after being described on the Internet as one of the worst film-makers of all time.
"Many journalists make value judgments on my films based on the opinions of one or two thousand Internet voices," he said.
"Half of those opinions come from people who've never watched my films."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3M_wGfYewo&eurl
Wonder if my boss would come in the ring with me???
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