To many people, Bruce Lee may just be an action movie star. But he is much more than that. He was a true martial artist, and is considered to be the father of mixed martial arts. But to truly understand Lee’s impact on the MMA world, we must first understand his history. Lee was born in San Francisco on Nov. 27, 1940 when his family was travelling the United States to do opera shows, and moved back to a Japanese-occupied Hong Kong one year later, according to Biography.com. At the age of thirteen, Lee began to take Wing Chun –a division of Kung-Fu- to become a better fighter...
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