Long before they were fighting together in the Expendables, Jet Li and Randy Couture faced off against one another in the mixed martial arts cage. No it wasn’t in the UFC but in the 2003 film Cradle 2 the Grave, directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak.

Playing the role of a Taiwanese Intelligence Officer named Su, he forges an unlikely alliance with rapper DMX, Tom Arnold and Gabrielle Union to unravel the sinister plot behind some priceless diamonds which are connected to a deadly new weapon of war.

In a pivotal scene of the film, Jet Li is hot on the tail of some gangsters who have some information that he needs, unable to enter the club they escaped into he finds entering the fighting cage of the club to get closer to his goal.

After dispatching former UFC Light Heavyweight and Heavyweight champion Randy Couture with ease, Jet becomes trapped in the cage with nowhere to run and is surrounded by a circle of fighters that include former UFC Light Heavyweight champions Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz who were all recruited by the film’s producer Joel Silver.

After mowing through a majority of the competition which included a brutal arm break and ripping out one fighter’s ear ring, Jet is confronted by none other than the Huntington Beach Bad Boy Tito Ortiz. Opting to stand toe to toe with Li he absorbs his best strikes and starts throwing him around the cage only to have the tables turned when Li lands a brutal groin strike and drops the former champion.

About Jet Li:
Li Lianjie; (born 26 April 1963), better known by his English stage name Jet Li, is a Chinese film actor, film producer, martial artist, and Wushu champion who was born in Beijing. He went on to star in many critically acclaimed martial arts epic films, most notably as the lead in director Zhang Yimou’s 2002 Hero and the Once Upon A Time in China series