Today, the protagonist we want to know is an American with an Asian face who has an indissoluble relationship with Chinese kung fu and Chinese sanda - Kang Li (cung le).
Kang Lee was born on May 25, 1972 in Saigon, Vietnam, to a Chinese mother. Kang Lee's hometown fell in the Vietnam War when he was 3 years old, and Kang Lee had to follow his mother to escape in a helicopter in a rain of bullets and bullets. Kang Lee's father, who remained in Vietnam, continued to fight and was unfortunately taken prisoner of war. Kang Lee and his mother spent several months in a refugee camp in the Philippines before fleeing to California.
Unable to tolerate discrimination and bullying by the locals against the foreign population, Kang Lee decided to learn martial arts to protect himself and his mother. At the age of 10, Kang Lee began to learn taekwondo, but he did not like the sport because of his strength. At the age of 14, Kang Lee began to learn the confrontational Roman wrestling, and then learned classical wrestling, freestyle wrestling, Greek wrestling, and won the 1989 National Aau Wrestling Championship and other honors.
In 1992, Kang Lee began to learn chinese loose hands from Liu Xiangyang, the "father of American scattered hands" of Vietnamese descent, and Kang Lee had a high understanding of scattered hands, and soon became a teaching assistant. In 1994, Kang Lee first came into contact with sanda, and he was very excited about this kung fu of being able to hit and kick and fall. This gave his taekwondo skills, wrestling skills, and Chinese kung fu skills a chance to play out, and he quickly became fascinated with the sport.
In order to make his technical system more comprehensive, while majoring in Sanda, Kang Lee also learned a variety of martial arts techniques such as boxing, Muay Thai, and Jiu-Jitsu. Due to his solid foundation, comprehensive skills and hard training, Kang Lee made a name for himself in the loose hand (sanda) competition that allowed boxing and wrestling, winning the 1994, 1995 and 1996 international wushu championships in the Usain International Wushu Championships for three consecutive years, and winning the bronze medal at the 1995 World Sanda Championships. From 1997 to 1999, Kang Lee served as the captain of the American Wushu Team three times in a row, competing in the World Wushu Championships. In several years of sanda training, Kang Lee created the "scissor foot" stunt and practiced the killer skill of turning around and pedaling.
In the 1999 Sino-US Sanda Match, Kang Li played a professional sanda match with the strongest Player of Chinese Sanda 80kg, "Mongol King" Nashun Gezhile. Kang Li firmly grasped the initiative of the game with his powerful wrestling skills and combination of punches, so that Shunzhige helplessly accepted the bitter fruit of defeat.
In December 2001, Conley defeated Shawnie Carter in a unanimous decision in California, USA, and won the IKF (International Kickboxing Federation) Light Heavyweight Championship. In 2003, Kang Lee advanced into K-1, the biggest kickboxing event of the time, and won four consecutive wins. As of retirement, Kang Lee's professional kickboxing record is 17 total wins and 12 ko opponents.
In 2003, Kang Lee took his apprentice Fujihano to the World Sanda King Championship. Fujihano lost 1:4 to Liu Hailong, the famous "Super Sanda King" at the time, which made Kang Lee interested. Kang Li expressed his willingness to compete with Liu Hailong, who was at his peak, and Liu Hailong also expressed confidence in winning the game. Unfortunately, due to the organization and promotion of the event, the two sides were unable to meet in the end, which became a regret in the history of Sanda.
In March 2006, Conley made his professional MMA MMA debut at the Stryforce event. In 2007, the authoritative magazine of martial arts "Black Belt" selected Kang Li as the Kung Fu Master of the Year. In March 2008, Conrie, who won all five games with a MMA record and 5 ko, was given the opportunity to challenge former UFC champion Frank Samlock. Conrie won the third leg by kicking Frank directly in the broken arm Tko and crowning him as strikeforce's middleweight champion.
In 2011, StrikeForce was acquired by UFC, and Kang Lee also entered the UFC competition. At this time, Kang Li was 40 years old, towards the end of his career, and only achieved 2 wins and 2 losses in the UFC.
In the 2014 UFC Macau tournament, Kang Lee was sprayed with blood by Michael Bispin Tko. Due to the discovery of a serious excess of human growth hormone in the body after the game, Kang Li was banned from the UFC for one year. Kang Li's team appealed, expressing doubts about the drug testing agency. UFC was ultimately unable to determine that the hormone was caused by medication due to insufficient evidence, so the ban on Kang Lee was lifted. Kang Lee, whose reputation was greatly affected, later took the initiative to ask for the termination of the contract with UFC, expressing his dissatisfaction and announcing his retirement in January 2015. So far, Kang Lee Professional MMA has a record of 9 wins, 3 losses and 8 ko.
In addition to being a famous fighter, Kang Lee is also an excellent action actor. Kang Lee has participated in many classic action movies, such as "October Siege", "Su Qi'er", "Generation Grandmaster", "Iron Fist", and "Dragon's Eye". Kang Li and Zhen Zidan, Zhao Wenzhuo and other kung fu movie stars shared the stage to play tricks, and their wonderful and gorgeous, swift and powerful martial arts actions received great praise.
Bringing Chinese sanda into the UFC octagon, chanting "I am proud of my Asian identity, I am the Asian representative of the UFC", the "Leg-Cutting King"; being named "Bruce Lee II" and "The Ultimate MMA King" by the media; a lifelong obsession with martial arts and fighting, this is the fighting legend Kang Lee.