But how is the story not relevant anymore? They're making a movie about it. The fight was supposedly the impetus for Bruce developing Jeet Kune Do, a style that a great many people promote to this day. The claim that the fight was over racism (when it surely was not) is still accepted by most martial artists and Bruce Lee fans throughout the world.
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SKM
Question: Is not Peter Ralston from your school? He carved out an impressive niche for himself with his Jen Hsin School of training. All the best.
Peter Ralston trained with Sifu Wong in the 1970's which was decades before I learned anything from him. Just the fact that he was the first Caucasian to win an international full-contact Martial Arts World Tournament should make people question the validity of these claims that the fight was over racism. In my experience, when one thing in someone's story is proven to be a lie there's usually a lot more falsities people don't know about.
Last edited by Siu Lum Fighter; 06-12-2014 at 08:18 PM.
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