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He's an Olympic pentathlete.
back in 1994, Lundgren starred in a film called "Pentathlon," which was really big among pentathletes and basically ignored by everyone else. Still, it's not often that anybody pays much attention to pentathletes, so in the hopes of gaining a little leverage for their program, the U.S. Olympic committee named Lundgren the official Team Leader of America's Olympic Modern Pentathlete team for the 1996 Atalanta Games.
He's an accomplished musician.
He's an accomplished drummer and musician. Not only did he write, direct and star in a film where he played a rock drummer (2009's "Command Performance"), he's also hosted and performed in musical competitions in Europe.
He was an international karate champion.
He earned his championships not in boxing, but in karate. A disciple of Kyokushin karate, Lundgren won the European championships in both 1980 and 1981 before taking down the Australian championship in 1982. That's not to say that he couldn't have been a boxing champion as well; in 2007, at the age of 47, he fought a celebrity boxing match against former UFC champion Oleg Taktarov and only lost via judge's decision despite being eight years older than his opponent.
He almost killed Sylvester Stallone.
And not just on-screen, either. Sure, everyone knows how his "Rocky IV" character, Ivan Drago, told Stallone's Rocky that "I must break you." But during filming, Lundgren nearly did exactly that to Stallone after Sly had the idea to stop faking it and play it real for the camera, just for a good 15 seconds of film. In a 2006 interview, Stallone revealed that Lundgren pounded him so hard during that 15 seconds that Sly ended up in intensive care at a London hospital for nine days with life-threatening injuries to his heart. How bad was it? The insurance company backing the movie didn't want to pay Stallone's claim because they said the injury was more in line with a head-on car crash. "I said, 'Well, have you seen Dolph Lundgren? That's a truck. That's a steering wheel. That's a head-on collision,'" Stallone told Entertainment Weekly. "They honored the insurance claim."
He's a genius.
this 6 feet 4 inches guy with weight around 250 lbs is a genius.
his IQ is claimed to be around 160.After graduating from high school with straight As, he spent some time in the United States in the late 1970s on various academic scholarships, studying chemistry at Washington State University and Clemson University.
After serving his mandatory two years in the Swedish Marine Corps at the Amphibious Ranger School, he enrolled at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and graduated with a degree in chemical engineering.
Amidst his years of studying, Lundgren honed his karate skills by training hard in the dojo for five years, attaining the rank of 2nd dan black belt in Kyokushin in 1978.
He captained the Swedish Kyokushin karate team, and was a formidable challenger at the 1979 World Open Tournament (arranged by the Kyokushin Karate Organization) when he was only a green belt. He won the European championships in 1980 and 1981, and a heavyweight tournament in Australia in 1982.
In 1982, Lundgren graduated with a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney, finishing with the highest results in his class
He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983.
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