Posted on 04/15/2023 5:06:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Most of us have seen highly-skilled Shaolin monks in movies, where they punish their opponents with an array of slick moves.
Well, in a recent kung fu boxing championship match in Guangdong, a Chinese man claiming to be a Shaolin monk was unceremoniously knocked out by his opponent in under two minutes.
The self-claimed Shaolin monk, Shi Yongjun, was up against a boxing amateur known as Ah Jun.
The match took place at a shopping mall in Guangdong last Friday (April 7), reported Chinese media.
Among the participants were professional boxers, traditional martial artists and even influencers.
Videos of Shi's embarrassing performance quickly circulated on Chinese social media, earning laughs from netizens.
In the clip, Shi, dressed in a monk's robe without gloves, started off the match by moving around Ah Jun, and gesturing frantically.
Unfortunately, his 'moves' were no match for the boxer, who knocked him down easily with two punches in the face.
Despite being floored, the 'monk' regained his composure, got up and proceeded to chase Ah Jun around the ring for another minute before getting knocked out.
While he was lying on the ground, someone asked if Shi could continue the match, and the latter shook his head, with a defeated expression on his face.
After the video of his defeat went viral, netizens started questioning if he was a real monk in the first place, reported 8world.
Even his opponent, Ah Jun, took to Douyin to call his bluff, saying that he was trying to fool others with his fake moves.
Others also began scrutinising his moves in the ring, pointing out that they were nothing like actual Shaolin kung fu.
Chinese MMA fighter knocks out two kung fu 'masters' Unfortunately, Shi isn't the only self-proclaimed martial arts practitioner to have been ridiculed online.
In 2019, a Chinese mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter, A Hu, knocked out two kung fu 'masters' in one night.
A Hu fought a Wing Chun 'master' named Ding Hao, whom he easily defeated by landing a punch flush on the latter's temple, sending him crumpling into the ropes.
His second opponent that night, a Tai Chi practitioner Song De Cai was also dominated in a similar method, receiving several punches to his face and body.
So, pretending a fight between Bruce Lee and Ali actually took place, and you think Ali would never touch Lee, how do you reconcile that for a fight to occur, Bruce Lee would have to become within striking range at some point to attack?
Ali was both much taller, and twice the weight of Bruce Lee. Please let’s not discuss the choreographed fight of Kareem Abdul-Jabar in Game of Death. The professional boxer of Muhammad Ali caliber, with his strength and speed would be almost too dangerous for someone of Lee’s size, who could actually die from one blow from Ali.
I contend Bruce Lee wouldn’t even harm Ali, because he simply can’t overcome the weight and body mass difference, which Ali could absorb all the punishment a 120 lb man can dish out, as impressive as it would look.
The subject was boxing vs martial arts.
We aren’t using strict boxing rules here!
I can see that you don’t know a lot about Bruce Lee!
Lee had a one inch punch that could, and did knock down bigger men than Ali.
Of course, you are correct, if the fight was strictly boxing rules ... Ali would have killed Lee.
Even Lee said so .. “Look at my hand. That’s a little Chinese hand. He’d kill me.”
Lee actually incorporated Ali’s footwork into his routines.
No not really, I’m talking a freeform fight. Ali is an actual professional, with many years of experience and actual real fight experience. All of Bruce Lee’s true fight experience is stuck within the folktale realm, whereas there are said to be some real fights he had, but almost nothing on film that wasn’t a demonstration, or training of some kind.
In a real street fight, you can’t just give up 100 pounds of mass. Ali could move as well, so it’s really nonsense to think that Bruce Lee would do lightning fast attacks with Ali just standing there and eating it. And when Lee is close enough to hit him, he’s also close enough to be hit by actual lightning quick punches of someone like Muhammad Ali.
No fight like this would ever be sanctioned because of the danger to Bruce Lee’s life.
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