Chiba is phenomenal! I just saw the Street Fighter series for the 1st time on a Wal-Mart special 3 DVD pckge with Some ninja movies as well as some Bruce Lee/Dragon Lee/Bruce Li stuff. I bought ’cause I thought I was seeing things after watching Karate Warriors and The Bodyguard which had horrible filming techniques. By the time Street Fighter came out the filming technique had improved (in only 3 yrs from 1970-1973) to where I can see everything clearly though the action is so fast I had to rewind many times to figure it all out. Anyway I finished watching the Street Fighter series thinking, now this guy was, and if still in shape, maybe is, better than Lee was, but as usual society puts dead guys on a pedestal, not taking away anything from Lee, just pointing out that as with rock stars, being alive may have prevented Chiba despite being a living legend from aquiring the true credit he deserves. BTW on your movie poster don’t forget to correct the second line where you misspelled the word: “unites”. Yeah I’m pretty critical (could’ve been a proofreader) and I also took note of the fact that in typical Jackie Chan goes Hollyweird style you managed to cast a young black kid in a role, but I don’t see any white faces. I wonder if this won’t hurt your sales considering there are a helluva alot of Euros into Asian Martial Arts even if Americans are
into UFC type bullshit. I wrote this for another website, but since it applies here as well I pasted it here. Also T.C., you’re way off on the boxers being faster idea. I’ve boxed
and though boxers are fast too, they don’t have the freedom or repertoire (collection) of moves to counter any good martial artist. Sorry. I’ve seen kickboxers take down boxers in matches, and that’s not even having to use grappling skills like in judo. The thing about kyokushin or jeet kun do for that matter is that they combine the hits, kicks, grappling, blocks, etc. in such a way that a boxer could never really defend himself well enough. Why do you think promoters would never pit a world champion boxer against a world champion martial artist in a no-holds barred fight? Simply because it would destroy the image of boxers as top fighters in the west. The same type of reason it took those same promoters forever to allow Ukrainian, Russian, Kazhakstani (all former Soviet) boxers to fight American boxers.
They also did not want to see a bunch of American bred athletes losing to Euros. But the proof is in the pudding, isn’t it? So much for Americans whites dreaming about a great white hope and American blacks hoping boxing somehow proves their “superiority”. Hell, Stallone’s new movie is already outdated with all three major world boxing organizations’ champions being ex-Soviet white boys. Now if you took martial artists and let them loose in boxing you’d see a bunch of faces like Sonny Chiba’s
at the top in the West as well as the East something America’s well to do would have a hard time accepting just like they had a hard time accepting Bruce Lee’s popularity in the early 70’s. Why? Because most of the money would be made by Asian promoters quite simply, that’s why.
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