Inside ‘The Smashing Machine’s’ brutal fight scenes

Inside ‘The Smashing Machine’s’ brutal fight scenes

If you got here out of “The Smashing Machine” pondering “that must have hurt,” it was by design.

Director Benny Safdie strove to make his biopic about pioneering blended martial arts fighter Mark Kerr (performed by a barely recognizable Dwayne Johnson) as true to the sport’s brutal Nineteen Nineties ring action as might presumably be simulated.

With the 2002 Kerr documentary of the same title and classic cage-fight footage as guides, Safdie and his team of actors — which included current MMA stars and championship athletes — stuntmen, digital camera people and sound consultants established formal guidelines to make every slam, punch and knee to the head reverberate…

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