Directly after Christopher Dubois breaks the pipe he is chained to on the ship during the attack by Lord Dobbs it cuts to a shot of the deck, on the right hand side Dubois is standing still facing right. Followed by him coming from below deck a couple seconds later.
The movie is set in the 1920s and the tournament is represented by fighters from different sovereign nations around the world. One of the first fights announced is "Okinawa vs. Japan", but Okinawa had been part of Japan since 1879, over 50 years before the tournament.
In one of the parts supposedly in Tibet, there are the long-necked women of the Padaung people who are from Southeast Asia.
One fight announced was "Siam vs. Africa", but Africa was and is a continent, not a country!
On the Region 1 DVD in the special features it has a filmography for Jean Claude Van Damme the first film on which is Abominable (1998), however that film never got past the planning stages and at the time was listed as an in-production project for him until around 2000.
Spanish fighter wearing Albanian flag on his belt instead of Spanish.
The fighter from Spain has the Albanian flag embodied in his belt. (The actor Pete Malota which plays the Spanish fighter is of Albanian origin.)