Reverend Fred Sultan (Samuel L. Jackson) greets a man with shoulder length black hair and a black suit, with "Hey Vincent, Vincent, where's Jules man?", a reference to Jackson's character in Pulp Fiction (1994).
The lion's head entrance to the MGM Grand featured in the movie has since been removed, because many Chinese gamblers avoided the casino (or entered through the back entrance) due to the feng shui belief that entering the mouth of the lion was bad luck.
Sol (Jon Lovitz) mentions, when watching the film of Tommy Morrison being knocked out, that he is "John Wayne's cousin". Morrison was John Wayne's (real name Marion Michael Morrison) grand-nephew.
Such was Ron Shelton's dislike of this movie that he has said, "I tried to get my name taken off it, because the film they made was not the script I wrote. I find it a horrible movie."
The film that James "The Grim Reaper" Roper (Damon Wayans) is watching before the fight is Dolemite (1975).