If anyone has more footage of this Kong-Fu Tak, please please send us!!

@PazCristo

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kzread.info/dash/bejne/fIeNrranXaS3cc4.html

@PazCristo

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kzread.info/dash/bejne/hKOY09Frh7yqlbQ.html another famous Hong Kong legend's boxing match

@PazCristo

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kzread.info/head/PL99B1E477654754D1 a legendary Hong Kong boxer's match.

@Freddy19677

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I sent you some yiquan vs karate bare knuckle fights from the 80’s , did you see them ?

@Nemo-ii3bu

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@@Freddy19677 I need it.😃

"Very formidable" is still an understatement tbh, Benny is more of a legend.

@ianbrewster8934

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💯

@annihilationannihilation1275

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ДЕРЬМО ТВОЙ БЕННИ..

@kevingray4980

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'Formidable' literally means terrifying.

Benny is a legend. Anyone that stands in the ring with him deserves some serious respect.

Either way, the Kungfu guy is legit tough. You can feel those shots through the screen, and he took them all without losing composure.

@guts7958

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Benny is just playing with him

Mr Kong Fu Tak isn’t just a Kung fu guy, he studied kung fu when he was very young. At that time there wasn’t many foreign martial arts available in Hong Kong, then he was sent to UK by his dad and he got a chance to learn boxing and kickboxing. According to one of his interviews, he had been told that he could clinch and knee before this fight against Benny, but when he arrived the venue, he was told that clinch and knee were not allowed

The way Benny helped him up after the sweep was pure class!

@FightCommentary

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Yeah. That’s was awesome!

@Autonamatonamaton

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love how everyone just kinda acknowledged that was the end of it haha

@X-Factor-22

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Aside from being one of the most powerful and explosive kickboxers from that era, B Jet was also famous for his sportsmanship. He truly is a reflection of that era on multiple levels. A great fighter, martial artist, teacher and sportsman. Even though alot of the kickboxer were great sportsmen, B Jet went out of his way to make sure his opponent was ok during and after the fight! He was definitely a HEAVY influence on me in combat sports!👊🏽

One thing is sure, the kung fu guy was tough as nails, he took so much punishment yet he never slowed down. I wonder what became of him,, he certainly had the heart of a fighter.

@FightCommentary

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I found his KZread channel. He has a gym and I think they even put on tournaments.

@kevinlobos5519

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@@FightCommentary nice!

@simonlo7595

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He runs several Muay Thai gyms in Hong Kong to this day. Some of his students in joined KF1 and other tournaments in Japan and fared really well. One of the greatest Muay Thai master in Hong kong. Old school.

@kevinlobos5519

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@@simonlo7595 nice

@winstonmiller9649

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It's great to have the wind to continue, but lousy if it's just stamina to get more punishment.

Don't you people forget Benny was the frikkin top of the fighting game in his time, and this "no name" kung fu guy went toe to toe against him.

Anyone stepping in the ring with Benny at that time deserves a medal!

Sensei Benny “The Jet” Urquidez is a HomeTown Hero & trainer of a couple of siblings. I watched Benny as the 11 year old kid that I was, go from Point Comp ( he was winning GC at 16) to Full Contact (as it was called at the time). BTW Shotokan & Kempo were far more popular in Los Angeles, where we are from, than any other style at the time ….. though Chuck Norris had 9 Tang Soo Do Dojos throughout The City. *You need to do your research on Benny* He cleared House in Japan., defeating Champions & Top 5 Fighters. His Dad was a Pro Boxer , Mom was a Pro Wrestler & Everyone in the family fought, including his World Champion Sister. This was a Challenge- Pick Up Fight & Benny was going easy.A completely spontaneous & extemporaneous. *Benny is The Greatest KickBoxer of All•Time* Benny also defeated all 4 Thai Fighters he fought. His legendary move was a Jump Spinning BackKick to the Liver & one helluva hip toss from The Clinch. You YoungBloods need to become familiar with Halcyon days of American Martial Arts in The 70’s & it’s impact on today’s Martial Art Culture

@FightCommentary

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Please recommend some matches!

@robertnewell4054

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@@FightCommentary … This took place at Van Nuys… It was packed to the Hilt & a riot started before the fight could be callled .kzread.info/dash/bejne/Z4KY0KieZtDKgqw.html

@robertnewell4054

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@@FightCommentary …. This is a cool little Fan Film kzread.info/dash/bejne/jJt7trJuc8jcotY.html

@robertnewell4054

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@@FightCommentary . This fight actually would be a good one for Commentary. BTW this Old Salty GrayBeard truly appreciates all you do kzread.info/dash/bejne/q2WuxcZplqnUqLg.html

@ValleyDragon

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Mr. Newell, you didn't happen to train with or know Bill Ryusaki and "Sonny" Clarence Barnes? Sensei Barnes was my head Instructor. We would sometimes see Mr. Ryusaki around. The Three of them were in Force 5. Mr. Ryusaki was in some other Movies. Sensei Barnes was also in a Jackie Chan Movie "Battle Creek Brawl".

Kong Fu Tak was karate and kung fu trained who switched to kickboxing and Muay Thai. He trained with the legend Steve Morris in the UK, who also coached Vincent Jauncey (the father and trainer of Josh Jauncey - the Glory lightweight fighter). He still teaches Muay Thai today in Hong Kong. You should check out his fight against Billy Chow.

@FightCommentary

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Can you please send some footage or links? What is his name in Chinese characters?

@kylea998

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@@FightCommentary KZread won't let me link, but search for this "江富德周比利雙雄決戰再現武林(2)" - there's not much footage, but there is both a 2 minute and 3 minute video of the fight. Also check out "benny urquidez fight to the death" - Benny talks about his fight with Kong Fu Tak in this video.

@kylea998

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@@FightCommentary Also if you search "Sam哥踢館 Sam Go Kick 江富徳師傅" you will see some footage of Kong Fu Tak training some students 11 years ago. And if you search "富德拳館 Fu Tak Boxing and Fitness" you will find his KZread page linked to his gym.

@Nemo-ii3bu

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@@FightCommentary kzread.info/dash/bejne/fIeNrranXaS3cc4.html kzread.info/dash/bejne/gHt71LqQpsbRibA.html

@Nemo-ii3bu

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@@FightCommentary 江富德

The fact this kung fu guy lasted this long was quite respectable back then

As always; thank you for digging up these amazing matches for us to watch. You are great

@FightCommentary

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Glad you like them!

It's interesting that because there's no knees, Benny instead throws a kind of short range stabbing front kick to the body on the break like at 7:10, chambering his knee super high to make room for it - a pretty unique technique to get around that particular ruleset!

For the record, the HK fighter in white is not a Kung-fu guy. His name is 江富德 and he was one of the 3 top kickboxing and Thai boxing competitors in HK back in the 80s with a background in boxing, Thai boxing, and Karate. He's owned a successful Thai boxing/kickboxing gym in HK since 1985.

Benny The Jet comes from a fighting family, his father was a boxer his mom was a professional wrestler. Benny studied many martial arts and boxing, he competed in point karate and made the transition to full contact karate, he was one of the first Americans to go to Thailand and beat the Maui Thai fighters, he also fought alot in Japan and was so popular he had his own comic book. Back in the 70s there was alot of transitioning going on with the introduction of safety gear and contact we soon learned alot of techniques didn't work. Benny was a founding father of modern combat sports and will always be respected in the community.

Awesome video! Hope you do more Benny the Jet breakdowns, he is such a legend

@FightCommentary

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Thanks! Will do!

The scene from wheels on meals where Benny puts out the light from some candles with a kick lives rent free in my head

Always x 1000 ❤ watching Benny fighting. The guy’s so talented!

@FightCommentary

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I should reach out to him. It would be really cool to get an interview with him!

@Domzdream

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@@FightCommentary Oh hell yes!

Your channel rocks man! Best vids you find. Quickly becoming a channel favorite for me. In the 90’s as a teen I seriously contemplated moving an hour South of here to Bennies place to train there. It would have been a blast but a couple years too young to live on my own in a big city I think. An amazing fighter and legend in the ma world

Meals on Wheels! love the fights in that movie. the whole movie all around!

Benny the jet is dope I respect him I think he would be good in mma and he had amazing fight with Jackie Chan they both hit each other hard in that fight scene

Benny hit like a truck, but he won like a gentleman ie. helping his opponent up after dropping him. Sportsmanship doesn’t seek victory at the expense of dignity.

Full contact. I may be wrong but I would say this combat is under full contact rules. The satin trousers with the "karate" belt Mr Urquidez is wearing gives a hint. Another big one is the lack of low kicks or knee strikes. Under full contact rules all kicks were above the belt except sweeps. If I remember correctly it was similar to boxing and was the natural "upgrade" from karate. Then K1 came with the change in rules, basically introducing low kicks, and satin shorts without "karate" belts. And that was the thing until Muay Thai came through adding elbows. The evolution of "kickboxing" in the late 70's and 80's was wild. From "karate" to "full contact" with a variety of kicks then "kick boxing" with more "simple" kicking and after that Muay Thai came and became the king. I'm sure the popularity of certain films and actors had a lot to do with the "evolution". And that's without mentioning the Boom of ninja films and the subsequent variety of "ninja masters". As I said the 80's were wild.😂

@FightCommentary

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Sounds like we will find more cool stuff from the 80s if we keep digging!

Can you please do a review on Manson Gibson. Apparently he was a taekwondo and mantis practitioner that thought in k1 and beat all the legendary mauy thai fighters of his generation but not many people know his story.

@FightCommentary

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Yes! That’s in my cue too! Thanks for reminding me! Please keep reminding me!

@jonjames5411

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@@FightCommentary thank you

"It's gotta be the hair Cotton, it's beautiful, feathered and lethal, you just don't see it nowadays"

Yo Dragons Forever has some of my favorite fight scenes starring Benny

This was cool, Kung Fu guy did pretty well 😄.

benny said he remembered as a boy watching bruce lee do a demo at a tournament and he was in awe of bruces speed and power, adding i was only young but i could tell this was someone very special.

Great video, love the hat, makes me think of Luffy.

This "traditional" kickboxing is what you said, many different styles using their kicks + the boxing method of punching and evading. Nowadays you can call ways of training karate, TKD and the such as kickboxing training.

Awesome video! I always enjoy watching the occasional style vs style fights from this era. Hope you enjoy your mushroom juice Jerry ^^

Don’t know the two, but this Benny looks legendary. The 80’s was a cool era for this

Great fight 😊

Without knowing one of them was a kung-fu-guy, I never would have guessed. Both were kickboxing.

Benny The Jet!!! you gotta watch him fight Jackie Chan in the movies its crazy Amazing!! a great villain!!

ok watching this video seems very different from Benny's recount of the story. I also didn't see Benny sitting on the guy, or doing a flip. I didn't see the guy raise his hands and scream "fight to the death" every round, but i might've missed that. but anyway, based on this video, the guy did better than I thought.

I think Kong Fu-tak is actually a Muay Thai guy, just based in HK

@tealeaf9260

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You're right. Based on the info in this video, I was able to find out more about him. Though he did Chinese martial arts when he was 8, really his history is mainly Karate and Muay Thai.

@henryposadas3309

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What Muay Thai technique did he actually do? Even his kicks aren't Muay Thai at all.

Beeny the Great Fighter !!! Tough as Nail !!!One of the Best !!!

Kickboxer like Benny were piont Karate guys that moved onto Kickboxing through full contact pad work to boxing training and a alot sparring. It doesn't take much ti cross over back then because most clubs called it freestyle Karate did alot of freestyle sparring which was basically Kickboxing sparring without hook punches and upper cuts.

My favorite style. I'm a karate kickboxer I just added Muay Thai lowkicks and grappling cuz obviously we're all MMA fighters now but my wheel house is boxing with high kicks

Benny the Jet is a legend. Well done to him. He was on the film Wheels on Meals with Jackie Chan Kung fu fighter, seems like he’s trying something

Benny is actually a reverse southpaw. He is left-handed but fought with his left leg in front.

Benny the Jet. Pretty sure he had those bottoms on in the old school Martial Arts magazine called Martial Arts lol 🔥🔥

Kung Fu guy looks pretty legit. Especially compared to others on this channel.

Jerry, I should 'correct you' that Kong-Fu Tak is not a 'purely' KungFu guy as his base is Karate, boxing and Thai boxing. Form his interview few years ago, he said when he got kick by Benny on his eye, his vision has been reduced to 40%. Alos, the reason why no knees nor elbow, was because on the previous day of the match, the organisation changed the rules to kick and strike only.

@FightCommentary

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Which interview? Show me!

@PazCristo

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@@FightCommentary kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZWSm2tykcbzfZ84.html this one, but it is in Cantonese without subtitles

Not to shabby 😃

I love how relaxed and loose Benny looks

I agree that Benny threw a mae geri at around 4:15ish, but I would say that the mae geri is a very different kind of kick than a push kick (teep). Push kicks are, mechanically speaking, something akin to actually stepping/stomping on an opponent. Mae geri instead uses the knee as a hinge and sends the ball of the foot into the target at a very high speed (this, as opposed to extending the entire leg into the target, a la the teep). Both great, just different. If you haven't already, you could probably teach yourself a basic mae geri on your heavy bag in 5 minutes, it's a very simple kick. Just make sure to pull those toes back.

You should try to track down Rick Spain vs Benny the jet in 1983ish. Rick Spain was world full contact Kung Fu champ at the time and they apparently went twelve good rounds together. Rick Spain is great btw he's a Kiwi that lives and teaches in Australia. Learnt wing Chun from William Cheung. Has a black belt in BJJ as well as karate. Learnt Kali/escrima, boxing, Muay Thai. Still teaches in Sydney both traditional wing Chun and MMA and BJJ. I used to train there ages ago (do Muay Thai these days) and he is legit there was always a strong focus on full contact sparring so the wing Chun is battle tested

@FightCommentary

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Now that’s an amazing lead! Thank you!! I will do a search!

It was guys like Benny the Jet, Bill Superfoot Wallace, Chuck Norris, Jackie Chan, Joe Lewis And Bruce Lee. I watch them all. And developed my own style, using thier tested and tried techniques, for my body type and age. Im 46, been hardcore training for the last 2 years. This kung-fu guy got schooled by the best and actually learned something, looks like! I did!😁

The chars for mae geri are 前蹴り, the kana is ri btw.

@FightCommentary

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Thanks! I recognize the 前 character! Is that Mae in Japanese?

@CaptainLoincloth

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​@@FightCommentary Yes

Kong Fu Tak did kickboxing as well as Muay Thai as well, even though he was from a kung fu origin

Many movies and a bit more than famous..he is a kickboxing legend….

Benny the jet is above a label. Of style.

If the kungfu guy won this video would be recommended for everyone

Actually Benny the Jet was in two different Jackie Chan movies, Spartan X (AKS Wheels On Meals) and Dragons Forever.

Benny the Jet, 江富德，both are true legends.

Benny is such a great fighter by the way one question at that time does sanshou exist? Because I don’t think that kung fu fighter was a sanshou practitioner?

Mate that Hongkong boxer is PKA boxer and he after this fight going to Thailand training really hard how he is the best Muai Thai master in Hongkong his grand student now is fight in one championship

tell you what guys this kung fu guy wasnt destroyed by benny was he he did really well thats no easy feat going up against benny. kudo,s to him.

kungfu guy gave it his all, he held his own even though he lost

Probably a Lei-tai match or spelled it as Lighting-table in Cantonese/hakka And I guess that's a Choy Li fut guy Any wing chunners would have been turned into Char-Saw/Meat bun in the first round. I think it's kinda sad why they(HKers and every Southern Chinese MA) didn't go from there in the 80 and developed their own version of a more combat orientated Martial Arts. while everyone was busy cosplaying Bruce Lee and larping Jeet kun doo.

Props to the guy that tried.

Benny's kicks aren't very impressive, but his boxing is exceptional

Heh, I love your anti-product-review!

Kong Fu Tak was super tough.

This was to be a death match back in the day

Benny is walking through this guy

One of the best ways to know who’s a better fighter? Well, two men enter the ring. When the match is over one still looks human and the other man’s face looks like an alien. That’s what happened here. 😂🤷

Mae Geri means FRONT KICK.

Not bad considering he was fighting Benny Urquidez.... but this is how it was back than...

This is not a fair comparison between styles, if that is even possible. Here it is a far more experienced kickboxer (who uses more karate as his base skillset) vs a less experienced kickboxer (who uses more kung fu as his base skillset).

Benny was one of the first to defeat Muay Thai fighters.

Benny jet?!! Look like he taking his time being Flat footed!

This isn’t Benny at full speed. It’s a game effort by the kung-fu guy, but this is mainly Benny playing with his food.

Tak did well considering who he fought

Irrelevant: Huge weight difference. Not in the same weight category.

Yes that Kung Fu guy did well. Just goes to show it’s the fighter not the style. Didn’t have a glass chin and took shots well.

Well Benny has extensive fighting experience & having practised and mastered nurmerous forms of martial arts. And it is clear the Kung Fu fighter does not have have the same experience or exporsure.

Fun fact-Benny is a lefty fighting orthy.

@FightCommentary

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That's awesome!

King fungu giy is one tough guy

In the end of the day, they end up doing kick boxing. :)

Benny stats 63-1 -57 KOs World Kickboxchampion fo over 20 years :D To me Benny wasnt fighting serious or most of the match because he never used his famous signatur kick not even once.

Good PR for Kung fu even though he lost.

Benny looks more beefed up. While the kung fu guy doesn't look really conditioned, and his strikes seem to lack power. Benny could have hurt the other guy more than he did, because he just seems more experienced. Benny would look more relaxed. That's probably because he was, and also much more experienced. If the kung fu guy had challenged Benny in the first place, good for him. Benny was at the peak of his game at the time, and Kung Fu Tak could have gained a great rep if he beat Benny. Bit like in the old west, where the young gun gained the rep by killing the old gunman!

The Kung Fu guy is probably a Sanda kickboxer and is legit tough, but the way he covers up would not work in a Muay Thai match with knees. He's putting his head right there for the knee

Is Benny a kyokushin fighter..??

Even Jackie Chan is afraid to fight Benny that's how great he is.

Hey bud, just so you know, Benny used to crush Muay Thai fighters

@FightCommentary

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What's your favorite match of his?

@derek6817

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I don't have a specific one, I just think it was amazing how at the time American fighters didn't allow leg kicks, he was beating Japanese champions, one of which came out of retirement.

@henryposadas3309

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What are you talking about? People confuse his fights with Japanese kickboxers as Muay Thai fighters. He was actually defeated by a Muay Thai fighter although it wasn't recorded in his Kickboxing record because it was under Muay Thai rules. Here is the actual match. kzread.info/dash/bejne/dHyfwduYqZzdo7A.html

It's never the martial art, it's always the martial artist.

These are the characters of mae geri: 前蹴り

the dude in red messing him up whenever he gets close and the other guy tucks in

Its Benny

Benny had an incredible role in the amazing 90s movie "Gross Point Blank" - possibly mr favorite movie of all time

Benny The Jet, going easy . 🇦🇺👍

While his fight vs Jackie Chan in Dragon's Forever is justifiably the most famous, his fight in Gross Pointe Blank is not to be slept on.

@FightCommentary

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Never seen that one! Will check it out!

@tor13128

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Just checked it out, but the fight in Gross Pointe Blank is on a much lower level both in choreography and athleticism, and I mean much lower.

So who is Kung Fu guy? It's hard to imagine that a contestant in a fight with a celebrity like Benny the Jet would go forgotten.

@grantsolomon7660

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Ah Kung Fu Tock.

This is one of the pick-upfights the Jet had on his earliest trips to Asia. The Asians wanted to find someone to beat "The Jet". They couldn't. He beat'em all!............😅

江富德、周比利、陳惠敏,陳錦新