{"id":50436,"date":"2026-11-10T03:34:52","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T02:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/10\/zangief-actor-olivier-richters-competed-in-a-street-fighter-6-tournament-using-zangief-and-hes-actually-pretty-good\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T03:34:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T02:34:52","slug":"zangief-actor-olivier-richters-competed-in-a-street-fighter-6-tournament-using-zangief-and-hes-actually-pretty-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/10\/zangief-actor-olivier-richters-competed-in-a-street-fighter-6-tournament-using-zangief-and-hes-actually-pretty-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Zangief Actor Olivier Richters Competed in a Street Fighter 6 Tournament Using Zangief, and He’s Actually Pretty Good"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I want to be the ultimate Zangief.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Updated<\/p>\n

: Nov 9, 2026 9:41pm UTC<\/p>\n

Olivier Richters, the seven-foot-tall actor who played Zangief in the 2026 Street Fighter movie<\/a>, competed in a Street Fighter 6<\/a> tournament using the same character he portrayed in the film.<\/p>\n

The tournament, called Chip Damage, took place in Richters\u2019 home country of the Netherlands. Richters competed under the screen name \u2018TheDutchGiant\u2019 using Modern controls, a simplified control scheme that is more approachable for newer players.<\/p>\n

Taking a look at the tournament bracket<\/a> on Start.gg, Richters was knocked out of the winners side and won two sets by DQ before getting defeated by a player named \u2018BlackBeard.\u2019 Regardless of his results, the fact that he felt inspired to start competing as Zangief after playing the character in a major Hollywood movie spoke volumes to the fighting game community.<\/p>\n

They weren\u2019t free matches, either; Richters uploaded a video showing himself competing on stream at the event, where it\u2019s clear that he has a solid understanding of his character, even taking a round off of his opponent \u2014 much to the crowd\u2019s delight.<\/p>\n

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“I want to be the ultimate Zangief.” Updated : Nov 9, 2026 9:41pm UTC Olivier Richters, the seven-foot-tall actor who played Zangief in the 2026 Street Fighter movie, competed in a Street Fighter 6 tournament using the same character he portrayed in the film. The tournament, called Chip Damage, took place in Richters\u2019 home country<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":50437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-50436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-moviestv","tag-mixtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}