In the last century, Hong Kong film superstars gathered, especially action stars, Jackie Chan, Hong Jinbao, Qian Jiale, Jet Li, Donnie Yen, etc., can be described as a hundred flowers blooming, each with its own characteristics.
But if you want to find the most capable fighter from these martial arts stars, I believe that you will invariably say the name Ofby Zhou. He is the only world-class Chinese boxing champion who injured Jet Li and kicked Wu Jing, and finally withdrew from the boxing world due to no opponent, and we came out to talk about this legend today.
Born in Canada in 1958, Billy Chou was physically weak from an early age, so his parents sent him to learn martial arts. Zhou Billy worked very hard, and the master saw it in his eyes, so he poured his heart into it.
Twenty-three-year-old Zhou Billy debuted on stage, and although he eventually lost the game, he learned a lot of experience. At this point, Zhou Billy officially began his own life, won the world lightweight free fighting championship, and became the only world-class Chinese boxing champion.
Billy Zhou's entry into the film and television circle was purely an accident, once Hong Jinbao was filming in Canada, a friend recommended Billy Zhou to him. Billy Chow had never studied acting, so he had little confidence in acting in movies.
Hong Jinbao saw that he was skilled and was a rare talent, so he said that it didn't matter if the newcomers didn't have acting skills, and he brought a lot of film. Because of this, Billy Zhou entered the Hongjia class and officially became an actor.
Billy Chow's appearance is very fierce, so he is generally shown as a villain in the movie. Billy Chow is not from a martial arts background, and has been standing in the ring to fight, so he does not know how to collect strength.
Therefore, when filming, Zhou Billy often beat his opponent to the nose and face swollen, and many actors were very afraid to fight with Zhou Billy.
Zhou Billy likes to fight with Hong Jinbao the most, because Hong Jinbao's skin is thick and thick, and he does not need to deliberately control his strength. During the filming of "The Dragon Play phoenix", Hong Jinbao was once beaten by Zhou Billy to the point of blue nose and swollen face.
In 1994, Billy Chow and Jet Li collaborated in the movie "Jingwu Hero", and now play Tsuyoshi Fujita, known as the "killing machine", and finally have a rivalry scene with Jet Li, which is a classic.
Jet Li did not know Zhou Billy at that time, so he did not think so, because the opponent was just a martial artist who knew a little kung fu, so the action was just a routine dodge, but he did not expect to suffer a big loss as soon as he came up.
Zhou Billy was strong and heavy, and as soon as he got started, jet Li was fractured, and then Zhou Billy has been trying to control his own strength, but in fact, this scene has been filmed for more than twenty days before it was finally filmed.
After the end, Jet Li said bluntly that he did not want to cooperate with Billy Zhou again in his life.
Jet Li is not the only one who is not afraid of tigers, But Wu Jing is also one of them, and the two have collaborated on "Kung Fu Kid Breaks In", which has a famous rival scene in the movie.
At that time, Zhou Billy had a weight of ninety kilograms, while Wu Jing was only sixty kilograms, and Wu Jing couldn't stand it at all, and when filming the opponent's scene, Wu Jing was kicked out by the other party fiercely.
Afterwards, Wu Jing also said that he no longer wanted to shoot a rival scene with Zhou Billy.
How awesome is Billy Chow? Hong Jinbao once said in an interview that when he was young, there were only two people who could not beat him, one was Bruce Lee, and the other was Billy Chow.
At the age of fifty-nine, Billy Chou said goodbye to boxing once and for all, the reason why he had beaten invincible players all over the world, and as he grew older, he was no longer suitable for the ring.
Now Billy Chow has opened his own boxing gym, with thousands of disciples under his name, and has lived a happy old age with his family. This world-class Chinese boxing champion who was a boxing champion at that time also had a very good development in the film and television circle, and eventually became history forever.
What do you want to say about Billy Chow? Feel free to leave a message in the comments section.