1. Wong Jack-man was best known for his controversial duel with Bruce Lee in 1964.
10 Facts About Wong Jack-man
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Accounts of Wong Jack-man's fight with Lee are contrary and controversial, as it was unrecorded and held privately at Chinatown, Oakland in 1964, when both men were in their early 23s.
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Wong Jack-man contested the notion that Lee was fighting for the right to teach whites as most of his students were Chinese.
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Wong Jack-man stated that he requested a public fight with Lee after Lee had issued an open challenge during a demonstration at a Chinatown theater in which he claimed to be able to defeat any martial artist in San Francisco.
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Wong Jack-man stated it was after a mutual acquaintance delivered a note from Lee inviting him to fight that he showed up at Lee's school to challenge him.
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Wong Jack-man disputed Lee's version of events and published his own account in the Chinese Pacific Weekly, a Chinese language newspaper in San Francisco.
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Wong Jack-man stated that he had extended "a hand of friendship" in accordance with martial arts traditions, but Lee initiated the attack.
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Wong Jack-man maintained that neither combatant fell to the ground during the encounter, though both fighters were "swayed" and "grazed" their opponent.
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Wong Jack-man later expressed regret over fighting Lee, attributing it to arrogance, both on the part of Lee and himself.
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Wong Jack-man instructed classes in California at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco and at the First Unitarian Church in Oakland for the better part of five decades before retiring in 2005.