Who is Jet Li? is a world-famous Chinese martial arts actor.
His works such as "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard" and "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" have achieved unprecedented box office success. It can be said that Jet Li is synonymous with kung fu.
However, in a show, Jet Li's personal bodyguard, the first-class successor of Wing Chun, was kicked and broke his ribs by a Sanda champion!
What's going on, as a martial arts actor, Jet Li doesn't know martial arts?
01 Wing Chun Heirs vs. World Champions
In 2015, a TV program of Tianjin Satellite TV "Joy Falls from the Sky" created a unique martial arts competition.
Unlike traditional boxing or other genres, there are no restrictions on the genre of the two players involved, with sanda fighters playing against Muay Thai fighters and kickboxers fighting against Hong fighters.
As a result, the show quickly attracted the attention of quite a few people.
As we all know, there is no first in literature, there is no second in martial arts, compared with the blooming of various works in the history of literature, people always have an inexplicable pursuit of martial arts.
However, due to the limitations of traditional fighting competitions, there are few opportunities to rank several different genres, so the appearance of this show quickly attracted people's attention.
However, one of the episodes has attracted people's attention: Jet Li's bodyguard, Wing Chun first-class successor Yang Chengzhang will face world sanda champion Cao Yaguang!
"Jet Li, Wing Chun, Successor ......" is like a commentary on Yang Chengzhang's martial arts level, he must be China's premier martial artist!
The audience thought that after all, his introduction was very much in line with people's setting of martial arts: passed down from generation to generation.
And because of Bruce Lee and the movie "Ip Man", Wing Chun has also become the most famous kung fu in China now, not to mention that Yang Chengzhang has added one item to his resume: Jet Li's bodyguard. This is even more surprising.
Yang Chengzhang's opponent, Cao Yaguang, is a Sanda World Champion.
In 2012, Cao Yaguang won the 60kg World Sanda Championship at the 4th World Youth Wushu Championships.
But compared with Yang Chengzhang, Cao Yaguang, the "world champion", seems to have lost his luster at this time.
02 Fight the Best?
In order to build momentum for this showdown, Tianjin Satellite TV is simply "painstaking".
Before the two officially duel, the Tianjin Satellite TV column team also filmed two episodes of programs for Yang Chengzhang, mainly about Yang Chengzhang's daily Xi.
Not only that, in order to prove Yang Chengzhang's martial arts, the program team also specially recruited Hollywood martial arts stars.
Chen Guokun, one of the actors of Shange Yunton and Bruce Lee, asked Yang Chengzhang to fight against these two.
After watching this episode, the audience of course thinks that Yang Chengzhang's martial arts are indeed very strong, after all, ordinary people, who can catch Shange Yunton's attack, and "Bruce Lee"'s Jeet Kune Do?
The time came to the beginning of 2015, and the drama of "Wing Chun Heirs vs. World Champions" was finally about to be staged.
Many viewers stayed in front of the TV early, ready to verify whether Wing Chun was good or Sanda was good.
At the beginning of the first game, the two moved around an origin, one punched lightly, and the other was not to be outdone, dodging sideways and countering with his legs.
Obviously, the two kept a safe distance at all times, and from time to time they tested each other to see what the other was doing.
In this way, in the few minutes of duel, the two never made a move that made the audience's blood flutter.
The turnaround came in the second game.
Before the start of the second game, Yang Chengzhang's son came to the scene, picked up a pair of braces to protect his teeth, and put them on for his father himself.
The atmosphere of the duel was pushed to the climax, setting the stage for the dramatic scenes that followed.
As a result, as soon as the game opened, Cao Yaguang beat Yang Chengzhang back again and again with a few sharp attacks.
Seeing Yang Chengzhang letting go, the audience thought to themselves at this time: Yang Chengzhang should only hate himself for missing a pair of hands.
As a result, an even more dramatic scene appeared: I saw Cao Yaguang's left foot flying up and kicking Yang Chengzhang heavily in the ribs.
Yang Chengzhang, who still had the strength to parry, fell directly in pain, and the game lost suspense in an instant.
Anyone who knows a little about martial arts knows that the ribs are the dead hole of a person, and as long as they hit the ribs, the winner will still be separated. Obviously, the Loose won the Wing Chun.
03 Martial Arts Showdown? Variety Show!
Soon, the video of Yang Chengzhang being kicked in the ribs spread across the Internet, with more than 20 million views, and discussions about Yang Chengzhang began to rise.
Some people say that he is just an ordinary person, not a "Wing Chun heir", let alone Jet Li's bodyguard, and some Wing Chun orthodox heirs have also begun to "fight fakes".
In response to this situation, a website in Hainan, where Yang Chengzhang is located, sent reporters to interview Yang Chengzhang.
Unlike ordinary people's attitude towards reporters, Yang Chengzhang saw reporters, as if he saw a savior.
It turned out that the cause of the incident was not like that broadcast on the TV show, and the matter had to start in the second half of 2014.
Tianjin Satellite TV's column group invited Yang Chengzhang to shoot two episodes of programs about martial arts.
For the purpose of promoting martial arts culture, Yang Chengzhang gladly accepted the invitation without even receiving a penny of compensation.
In the program, the column team invited Shang Ge Yunton and Chen Guokun, and said to Yang Chengzhang: "You compare with them twice, don't really fight." ”
Yang Chengzhang is naturally happy, after all, not everyone can see stars on TV. He also took a photo with the two afterwards.
Yang Chengzhang said as he flipped through his phone and showed the photos he had taken to the camera.
"After the show aired, several Wing Chun descendants called me and scolded me, saying why did I represent Wing Chun. ”
At first, when Yang Chengzhang received the call, he wondered why someone said that he had taught himself martial arts for many years and had never been under the door of others.
It wasn't until I watched the show that the program team gave him the title of "first-class successor of Wing Chun" in order to create a topic.
But in addition to this title, Yang Chengzhang did serve as Jet Li's bodyguard and taught martial arts to the armed police.
As for the fact that he was kicked and broke his ribs in the show, Yang Chengzhang was even more angry, he told the reporter that he was fine, and in order to prove it, he even gave the reporter a set of punches.
It turned out that during the filming of the show, when Yang Chengzhang was kicked to the ground, the doctor examined him, and someone around him interjected a sentence, "Is it a broken rib?"
The audience had a preconceived idea that Yang Chengzhang's ribs were kicked and broken.
After the show was broadcast, Yang Chengzhang was very annoyed, but he finally calmed down his anger, because his purpose in the show was to promote martial arts, and now his goal has been achieved.
It's just that Yang Chengzhang hates the unscrupulous operation in the show for the sake of popularity.
Seeing is not necessarily believing, Yang Chengzhang learned this truth this time, and his martial arts level may also improve.