A new article from The Wall Street Journal details the extreme lengths that Vin Dieselgoes through on set to make sure that - even if he loses an on-screen fight - he always comes out looking like the tough guy. As in he went so far at one point as to create a point system for choreographed fights ensuring that he never got beat up more than the other guy. So how did we get here? STORY TIME.

Those who seeFast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw this weekend will notice that the franchise's star Vin Diesel is nowhere to be seen. That's in part because hisfeud with costar The Rock is legendary. There's just too much Big Dick Energy on setwhen it comes to the Fast & Furious franchise fellas, so producers are giving The Rock his own movie, while Vin Diesel will be back for Fast & Furious 9 in 2020.

Thanks to WSJ we have some insane details about just how hard Vin worked on set to preserve his pristine masculinity:

According to producers and crew members on the films, Mr. Statham, 51 years old, negotiated an agreement with the studio that limits how badly he can be beaten up on screen. Mr. Diesel, 52, has his younger sister, a producer on the films, police the number of punches he takes. And Mr. Johnson, 47, enlists producers, editors and fight coordinators to help make sure he always gives as good as he gets.

One FF editor succinctly stated:

It’s like that old trope where an actor comes in and wants more close-ups. They want more muscles.

Oh, and about Vin's melee point system that was quickly dropped by studios:

[He had an idea to]assign numerical values to every move—head butt, roundhouse kick, body slam—so he could calculate a total and determine if the two men were getting pummeled evenly.

Everyone wants a guy who doesn't take himself too seriously, but ya'll sleeping on guys who care deeply about fake fighting. Check out the full WSJ exposé here and measure up the boys yourself with these super sexy (and fair, don't worry Vin!) pics!

Vin Diesel

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The Rock

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