50 Cent Shows Off Boxing Training for Upcoming Street Fighter Movie — and He's Even Got the Balrog Haircut

If the boxing grooming wasn't giveaway enough, here's our archetypal look astatine Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson grooming for the relation of Balrog successful Legendary's upcoming live-action Street Fighter movie… And yes, he's boasting a precise chiseled hairstyle.

Taking to Instagram, 50 Cent shared a reel of himself taking connected a sandbag, writing: "Work hard erstwhile they hardly working, and they volition beryllium amazed astatine the outcome. I deed a 🥷🏾he gonna spot a achromatic airy and perceive Jesus accidental travel to maine child. LOL Street Fighter coming soon."

Set successful 1993, the Street Fighter movie sees estranged martial artists Ryu (Andrew Koji) and Ken Masters (Noah Centineo) thrown backmost into combat erstwhile the mysterious Chun-Li (Callina Liang) recruits them for the adjacent World Warrior Tournament: a brutal clash of fists, fate, and fury. But down this conflict lies a deadly conspiracy that forces them to look disconnected against each different and the demons of their past.

Legendary announced the afloat formed for its upcoming live-action Street Fighter movie earlier this period and confirmed it'll beryllium released by Paramount Pictures a small aboriginal than planned connected October 16, 2026. Bad Trip’s Kitao Sakurai directs Street Fighter, which has begun shooting successful Australia and is filming successful IMAX.

See the afloat Street Fighter formed database below:

• Noah Centineo arsenic “Ken Masters”
• Andrew Koji arsenic “Ryu”
• Callina Liang arsenic “Chun-Li”
• Joe “Roman Reigns” Anoa’i arsenic “Akuma”
• David Dastmalchian arsenic “M. Bison”
• Cody Rhodes arsenic “Guile”
• Andrew Schulz arsenic “Dan Hibiki”
• Eric André arsenic “Don Sauvage”
• Vidyut Jammwal arsenic “Dhalsim”
• Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson arsenic “Balrog”
• Jason Momoa arsenic “Blanka”
• Orville Peck arsenic “Vega”
• Olivier Richters arsenic “Zangief”
• Hirooki Goto arsenic “E. Honda”
• Rayna Vallandingham arsenic “Juli”
• Alexander Volkanovski arsenic “Joe”
• Kyle Mooney arsenic “Marvin”
• Mel Jarnson arsenic “Cammy”

Legendary besides released side-by-side images of the actors other their crippled characters, which you tin spot by scrolling the slideshow below.

Hollywood’s emotion matter with video crippled adaptations shows truthful motion of slowing down fixed movies similar A Minecraft Movie and The Super Mario Bros. Movie person generated hundreds of millions of dollars astatine the container office. On this occasion, though, there's the added unit of ensuring it outperforms the 1994 original, which is considered by galore to beryllium among the worst video crippled films of each time.

Image credit: Instagram.

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