Undisputed 3: Boyka & Turbo’s Teamup Was More Important Than You Realized

Beginning as the antagonist of Undisputed 2, Boyka had prisoners cheering his name as spectators to his fights. Undisputed 2 establishes that he’s been given special privileges as his prison’s reigning MMA champion, while having a close circle of followers at his beck and call. Despite this, Boyka doesn’t have friends in the traditional sense, and made a swift enemy of George “Iceman” Chambers (Michael Jai White) upon the latter’s arrival.
To a large extent, this was Boyka’s own doing. He’d allowed his success in the ring to go to his head, declaring himself The Most Complete Fighter in the World and treating both his opponents and cornermen poorly. While Boyka’s belief that his fighting skills are a gift from God has always been sincere, his runaway pride made everyone around him either hate or fear him. Russian mob boss Gaga (Mark Ivanir) also isn’t Boyka’s friend in any genuine sense, but simply sees him as a means to get rich from his continuous wins. Boyka’s lack of friends in his prison life makes his loss to Chambers that much more crushing for him. With no real support, Boyka finds himself resigned to his mixed martial arts days being over, mopping the prison floors and hobbling on his bad knee seemingly for the rest of his life at the beginning of Undisputed 3.
Undisputed 3 Was Boyka’s Biggest Learning Experience

After Boyka manages to get himself back into fighting shape, he’s able to gain entry into Undisputed 3‘s Tournament of International Prison Fighters. Boyka enters the tournament with his same ardent belief that he’s The Most Complete Fighter in the World chosen by God. At the same time, he also holds a firmer understanding that that doesn’t make him invincible. Boyka’s relationship with Turbo starts out much the same way as his rivalry with Chambers did, the two not even making it to the ring before coming to blows doing hard labor.
Despite this, with their hard work and restricted time to train, it soon becomes clear to Boyka and Turbo that the tournament is being rigged for Dolor to win, with Marko Zaror playing the villain. This leads Boyka and Turbo to treat their days working in sweltering heat as equivalent to training. Though they began as enemies, Turbo is the first fellow prisoner Boyka learns to form a true alliance with rather than regarding him as a potential enemy to be defeated. As the tournament begins to build to its final match, Boyka also comes to learn another lesson.
Boyka Realized Even He Needs Help Sometimes

Boyka faces Dolor in the final showdown of Undisputed 3, and his victory and how he achieves it are both things Turbo helped him to do. Boyka knows Turbo is in no shape to fight after he’s beaten by guards in another bid to ensure Dolor’s win. When the two learn that defeated fighters are being executed, Boyka helps Turbo escape. After Scott Adkins’ Boyka triumphs over Dolor, he’s taken away to be executed only for Turbo to kill the guards and get Boyka away in the back of Gaga’s car. Boyka never would’ve survived without Turbo’s intervention, while the usually duplicitous Gaga, who secretly bet on Boyka, grants him his cut of the winnings from the fight.
In the finale of Undisputed 3, Boyka was headed into what he knew was a suicide mission, and was given a second chance for freedom and riches due to his selflessness. While his actual triumph in the ring over Dolor and the crooked prison apparatus was something Boyka did on his own, it was a team effort for him and Turbo to gain their respective freedom. Turbo deserves partial credit for Boyka’s win over Dolor for being Boyka’s training partner in their improvised calisthenics and cardio while conducting manual labor. While having a great indomitable will as Scott Adkins’ most famed character, Boyka’s bad knee was also something Turbo helped him work past with remedies from his military background. Boyka may have been the man to defeat Dolor and destroy the cash cow the tournament’s organizers bet on. Nevertheless, his win, his survival, and his freedom were all things Turbo helped facilitate, with his newfound wealth coming from Gaga having at least some level of honor.
In his battles in the Undisputed franchise, Boyka sees himself as a very self-reliant man. Boyka’s many wins in and out of the ring certainly were testimony to his skills, but Undisputed 3‘s conflict wasn’t simply about defeating opponents. Boyka himself makes this clear to Turbo, stating “In here, the people you fight, they are not just in the ring.” As Scott Adkins’ personal favorite of the action movie franchise, Undisputed 3 stacked the deck against Boyka at every turn, from the attempted fixing of the tournament to his bad knee giving him a weakness to overcome. More than any other Undisputed movie, Undisputed 3: Redemption showed that Boyka needed a hand in fighting his way out of his seemingly inescapable situation, and Turbo was the man to give him that support.

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