History YMMV / NeverBackDown

* SoBadItsGood: For the people who cannot ignore the cliche.

* {{Narm}}: "Control the outcome." Which naturally translates as "win."

* ClicheStorm: A guy is humiliated by a jerk, then trains himself hard by a wise mentor who acts as a surrogate father, beats the crap out of the jerk and finally gets his girl. Point for point, this film served as a pretty spot-on remake of ''Film/TheKarateKid'' several years before the [[Film/TheKarateKid2010 official remake]] came out, only replacing karate with MMA, similarly to how the official remake replaced karate with kung fu.

* WhatAnIdiot: The acrobatic fighter who faces Ryan gets a solid one, in more of a sense. The guy spends most of the fight giving an elaborate but utterly useless exhibition of UsefulNotes/{{Capoeira}} and predictably gets knocked out with a single punch.

* ClicheStorm: A guy is humilated by a jerk, then trains himself hard by a wise mentor who acts as a surrogate father, beats the crap out of the jerk and finally gets his girl. Point for point, this film served as a pretty spot-on remake of ''Film/TheKarateKid'' several years before the [[Film/TheKarateKid2010 official remake]] came out, only replacing karate with MMA, similarly to how the official remake replaced karate with kung fu.

* ClicheStorm: A guy is humilated by a jerk, then train himself hard by a wise mentor who acts as a surrogate father, beats the crap out of the jerk and finally gets his girl. Point for point, this film served as a pretty spot-on remake of ''Film/TheKarateKid'' several years before the [[Film/TheKarateKid2010 official remake]] came out, only replacing karate with MMA, similarly to how the official remake replaced karate with kung fu.

* ClicheStorm: A guy is humilated by a jerk, then train himself hard by a wise mentor who acts as a surrogate father, beats the crap out of the jerk and finally gets his girl. Point for point, this film served as a pretty spot-on remake of ''Film/TheKarateKid'' several years before the [[Film/TheKarateKid2010 official remake]] came out, only replacing karate with MMA (similarly to how the official remake replaced karate with kung fu).

* ClicheStorm: A guy is humilated by a jerk, then train himself hard by a wise mentor who acts as a surrogate father, beats the crap out of the jerk and finally gets his girl. Point for point, this film served as a pretty spot-on remake of ''Film/TheKarateKid'' several years before the actual ''Karate Kid'' remake, replacing karate with MMA similarly to how the official remake replaced karate with kung fu.

* WhatAnIdiot: The acrobatic fighter who faces Ryan gets a solid one, in more of a sense. The guy spend most of the fight giving an elaborate but utterly useless exhibition of capoeira and predictably gets knocked out with a single punch.

* ClicheStorm: A guy is humilated by a jerk, then train himself hard by a wise mentor who acts as a surrogate father, beats the crap out of the jerk and finally gets his girl. Point for point, this film served as a pretty spot-on remake of ''Film/TheKarateKid'' several years before the actual Karate Kid remake, replacing karate with MMA similar to how the official remake replaced karate with kung fu.
* SoBadItsGood: For the people who cannot ignore the above.

* ClicheStorm: A guy is humilated by a jerk, then train himself hard by a wise mentor who acts as a surrogate father, beats the crap out of the jerk and finally gets his girl. [[SarcasmMode How original.]]
** Point for point, this film served as a pretty spot-on remake of ''Film/TheKarateKid'' several years before the actual Karate Kid remake, replacing karate with MMA similar to how the official remake replaced karate with kung fu.
* ContestedSequel: The direct-to-DVD sequel is disliked by the people who liked the first film, accusing it from being shoddy and pretentious, while the ones who disliked it tend to like the sequel, seeing its unapologetic pandering to MMA fans as NarmCharm.
* OneSceneWonder: Lyoto Machida's surprise apparition in the sequel, as well as Eddie Bravo.
* SoBadItsGood: The sequel, and, in a certain way, the first film.
* WhatAnIdiot: The acrobatic fighter who faces Ryan gets a solid one. The guy spend most of the fight giving an elaborate but utterly useless exhibition of capoeira and predictably gets knocked out with a single punch.

* ClicheStorm: A guy is humilated by a jerk, then train himself hard by a wise mentor, beats the crap out of the jerk and finally gets the girl. [[SarcasmMode How original.]]
** Point for point, this film served as a pretty spot-on remake of Film/TheKarateKid several years before the actual Karate Kid remake, replacing karate with MMA similar to how the official remake replaced karate with Kung Fu.
* FirstInstallmentWins: Most fans of this movie don't like the direct-to-DVD sequel.
* WhatAnIdiot: The acrobatic fighter who faces Ryan gets a solid one. The guy spend most of the fight giving an elaborate but utterly useless exhibition of capoeira/breakdance/whatever and predictably gets knocked out with a single punch.

** Point for point, this film served as a remake of Film/TheKarateKid several years before the actual Karate Kid remake, replacing karate with MMA similar to how the official remake replaced karate with Kung Fu.

** Point for point, this film served as a remake of Film/TheKarateKid several years before the actual Karate Kid remake, replacing karate with MMA similar to how the actual remake replaced it with Kung Fu.

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Ryan's effortless one-hit KO on a showboating Capoerista in the final tournament.
** Charlie teasing Baja after he walked in on her and Jake making out and she claimed that they were "[[UnusualEuphemism wrestling]]".
-->"''I'm a big wrestling fan.''"
-->'''later on, as Jake leaves the room to answer the door''' "''Wanna wrestle?''"

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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Ryan's effortless one-shot KO of that showboating Capoerista in the final tournament.
** Charlie teasing Baja after he walked in on her and his big brother Jake making out and she claimed that they were "[[UnusualEuphemism wrestling]]".

-->''I'm a big wrestling fan.''
-->'''later on, as Jake leaves the room to answer the door''' ''Wanna wrestle?''

* ExcusePlot: And how!

* WallBanger: Out of 100+ kids at Ryan's "party," you'd think someone would have found his brutal thrashing of the new guy fucked up enough to call the cops over. Nope, instead everyone cheers madly at this one-sided hazing ritual.
** During the final fight scene, Jake is put in a headlock by Ryan. Before he starts to black out, you can clearly see that Jake is wearing shoes and Ryan is not. It would have been a lot simpler just to ''stamp on his foot'' than use the [[AwesomeButImpractical unnecessarily complicated move]] that occured in the movie.
*** This, of course, under perfectly reasonable assumption that the other guy wouldn't simply ''move his foot out of the way''?
*** That still would upset his centre of balance, thus allowing a simpler exit. Jake could also have just dropped his weight a bit, while pulling on Ryan's arms, loosening his grip enough to throw in a few blows.
*** In fact the entire final fight is full of moments where Jake could have done something had he not been forced by the fact that this is a movie showcasing MMA to obey its rules. For instance, biting? Illegal in MMA, but not in a street fight.
*** Considering that Ryan just got disqualified for [[CombatPragmatist eye gouging]], it's a reasonable assumption that he could try it again or go for the GroinAttack. Why he doesn't when the rules no longer apply is somewhat baffling.