10 Facts About Fighting That Action Movies Always Get Wrong

10. Getting Hit In The Nose Hurts...A Lot

If we're going to go through and debunk the many aspects of real-life fighting that Hollywood gets wrong, we have to start with one simple truth: Getting punched in the nose hurts a whole lot. Have you ever been punched in the nose? If you answered yes, is the very memory of being socked in the face chimney currently causing your eyes to well up just a little? Because there's absolutely nothing--not even the end of Old Yeller--that can send the tears streaming down someone's face faster than the pain that fist-to-face impact causes. It doesn't matter how tough you are, or how much you can deadlift at the gym, you don't just shrug off that kind of nose trauma as if a particularly small fly landed on your face. Unless, of course, you've been blasted in the snout so many times that Owen Wilson looks at you like you're an oddity. Repetition might help desensitize you a little, but not enough for it to have no effect whatsoever. So remember that final fight between Jean-Claude Van Damme and Chong Li at the end of Bloodsport? By the second hit to the face, Van Damme should have spent the rest of the fight clutching his nose with one hand.