"oh?"

Ma Xiaofei leaned forward slightly: "Please speak."

Dana White was so upset that she had to listen attentively. Damn, it’s so annoying. How can this Chinese brag so well? People in this country are not good at talking. The key is that they can speak English so damn well.

Very standard and smooth, like a Stanford lecturer...

Regardless of what Dana White thought, Gao Yun asked the service staff to bring him a pen and paper, and wrote a sentence in Chinese and English in standard fonts. This sentence will be the new slogan and new strategic positioning of the UFC.

, it can even be said to be the spirit and culture of the MMA sport.

After Gao Yun finished writing, he handed the note over and added: "Whether it is my own fighting level or the philosophy of fighting, I think I am still a primary school student and need to continue to learn and deepen my understanding. I am not qualified now."

What special cultural meaning is given to the sport of UFC or MMA? Therefore, I compiled this slogan or the purpose of UFC by standing on the shoulders of giants. After reading it, you can express your own opinions on revisions.

…”

The giant in Gao Yun's mouth refers to Bruce Lee.

He is revered by many active or retired top fighters in the country, including Dana White, who calls him the father of MMA. Although this title is harsh to some people's ears and sounds a bit exaggerated,

But objectively it is very defensible.

Some people think that Bruce Lee is just an actor with a somewhat famous history but not much fighting ability. Dana White printed the sentence "Bruce Lee is the father of MMA" on the UFC brochure, which is just to impress Lee fans around the world.

From a business perspective, why do we have a favorable impression of the UFC?

It can only be said that people with such ideas don’t know much about Bruce Lee’s life, nor the development history of MMA.

The full name of MMA is Mixed Martial Arts. Mixed means mixed. The literal translation is mixed martial arts, which is mixed martial arts or mixed martial arts.

Bruce Lee publicly proposed the concept of MMA as early as 1960, trying to combine the strengths of hundreds of schools of thought to create his own martial arts philosophy. His thinking was very advanced. He can be said to be the first public figure to propose the concept of mature MMA.

There were mixed martial arts ideas before this, but they were all simple mixtures. For example, Pankrasin in ancient Greece can be regarded as boxing and wrestling. In 1938, Wado-ryu, the four major streams of traditional Japanese karate, was karate+judo.

The actual Sambo system includes Russian-style big swings, punches, and throws, while Patton's civil self-defense system is just a mixture of Eastern and Western martial arts.

Bruce Lee evolved the earliest MMA system in the world at that time. He studied boxing, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Muay Thai, karate, Wing Chun and other martial arts from various schools in various countries, and proposed the concept and unique features of mixed martial arts.

The martial arts philosophy. Whether it is mixed martial arts or a combination of kicking, hitting and wrestling, they are extremely close to today's MMA system.

Therefore, Bruce Lee's contribution does not lie in his fighting prowess or competition honors. It is unreasonable to discuss whether he can fight or his actual combat ability. His contribution mainly lies in his martial arts thoughts and fighting consciousness, his contribution to martial arts concepts and his technical contributions, especially

It's the former.

Because in his time, no one knew what martial arts was and what mixed martial arts was. He was the first person to promote these to the world.

Of course, Bruce Lee's real fighting strength may be weaker than that of today's professional athletes, but when looking at historical figures, we cannot transcend the factors of the times. Fighting and fighting technology will always be newer and better.

In Bruce Lee's time, martial arts had not yet formed the current sports. Not only traditional Chinese martial arts, but also serious sectarianism among various foreign schools. Most people at that time could kick but not throw, but could throw.

If you don't know how to kick, boxers won't exchange techniques with karate players. At most, it's just a heterogeneous fighting competition... So, don't use current standards to evaluate a past pioneer.

Judging from that era, Bruce Lee's actual combat ability may not necessarily be the best in the world due to reasons such as height and weight, but he was at least a first-class master at the time. It is not an exaggeration to be outstanding, and he could even defeat people heavier than himself across weight classes.

There are many martial arts practitioners. Moreover, his martial arts theoretical level and training methods must have been the most advanced at that time. They were scientific and could withstand verification. They were far ahead of the martial artists of the same era, and this was generally recognized.

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He was recognized as the person at that time who had the most profound understanding of the practical combination of the human body and martial arts, and this spirit was spread by the media and made known to others because of movies, thus being amplified.

Otherwise, he would not be able to accept so many famous disciples, let alone a 'thin' yellow man who is over 170 years old and weighs only 70KG? How can a theorist with only one mouth make him a disciple if he is not supported by real fighting strength?

Who do you believe in? At that time when white people despised the Chinese the most, how could those arrogant white people wearing thick-colored glasses be willing to worship him as their teacher?

Among Bruce Lee's apprentices, the one with the most brilliant achievements in the field of fighting is undoubtedly Joe Lewis, the founder of American kickboxing and the prototype of the famous Street Fighter. Before he met Bruce Lee, he was already a famous karate martial artist in the American martial arts world, but he was not

First-class. After a defeat, he became a disciple of Bruce Lee. After receiving special guidance and training from Bruce Lee for two consecutive years, Joe Lewis's karate skills have been revolutionaryly improved. He has won 11 consecutive U.S. karate fighting competitions without losing a single victory.

His free fighting skills improved by leaps and bounds, thus creating a golden era of his personal martial arts and ring career. Not only did he create his own unique Joe Lewis karate fighting system under the guidance of Bruce Lee, but also under the influence of Bruce Lee, in 1970

Organized and launched the American Professional Kickboxing (Kig, also translated as Kickboxing) competition, which was the first full-contact professional karate competition in the history of the United States and was invincible, winning the heavyweight championship of the first event.

"After training with Bruce Lee, I suddenly became invincible and officially reached the pinnacle of my career..."

These are the exact words of Joe Lewis in an interview, and he is just one of Bruce Lee's apprentices. Bruce Lee also has many apprentices.

In addition to recruiting apprentices and passing on his skills, Bruce Lee also relied on his film and television works, books, media interviews, and training notes... to set off a craze for martial arts practice in the world and sow the seeds for the subsequent development of martial arts sports.

And his fighting philosophy directly affected the establishment of MMA, and his teaching habits indirectly affected the development of modern fighting competitions.

More than forty years after his death, Bruce Lee's technical tactics, martial arts thinking, notes, movements and Jeet Kune Do were used by Pacquiao, Conor, Kang Lee, Bones Jones, Silva, Tito Otti

Now, Tyson... and many other top fighting athletes learn to imitate.

Techniques such as double-leg throws, hook kicks, shovel hooks, crossbars, rear-naked chokes, shin kicks, judo throws, elbow strikes, and Wing Chun hand seals that MMA fighters currently use have also been recorded in his book.

But it was a book written in the 1960s.

Bruce Lee's comprehensive training of kicking, beating, wrestling, strength training, aerobic training, and resistance training... is collectively called a cross-training model, and has been passed down by many combat athletes.

Moreover, his training methods can be used not only in fighting, but also in sports and fitness. The 'Dragon Flag' created by Bruce Lee is still known as one of the most efficient fitness movements.

Let's put it this way, the history of world fighting has changed because of this man. He may be suspected of being an excessive myth, but even if the excessive mythology is removed, it is still a myth.

Bruce Lee is one of the greatest contributors to the history of martial arts at home and abroad. He promoted the progress of martial arts and was the founder of an era. He has the significance of creating history. No matter how good other fighting athletes are, they cannot compare with Bruce Lee. Their competitiveness is only at the level of

At the level of competitive sports, even boxing champion Ali is the same.

At least Gao Yun thinks so, and his coaching team, and even all the domestic and foreign fighting athletes he has come into contact with, think so. The top people in the martial arts world at home and abroad have unanimous evaluations of Bruce Lee's strength and thoughts.

Because they understand that the reason why people are as tall as they are today is because they stand on the shoulders of giants. It is these giants who make them stronger.

Therefore, the sentence written by Gao Yun today also draws on Mr. Bruce Lee’s philosophy on fighting...

"OK."

Dana Bai was the first to take the note, but she was curious about what the other party wanted to write, and said to herself that if what you wrote is not good, then don't blame me for secretly ridiculing you...

However, at this glance, the thoughts in his heart immediately dissipated, and he responded silently.

When he was young, Dana White was a "street gangster" and a "problem boy". He hated studying and was expelled from Bishop Gorman High School twice. At the age of 18, he became an amateur boxer. He did not have a high degree of education, but he had a profound understanding of fighting.

He didn't understand the sentence written by Gao Yun in Chinese, but the English was very easy to read, but it also contained an indescribable mysterious meaning.

"I don't know how to evaluate it yet...but it feels very familiar to me, like Bruce Lee's style, with a unique philosophical meaning..."

Dana Bai thought for another ten seconds before he had to say dryly: "Of course, this is very good, I am also a fan of his, huh."

Ma Xiaofei saw the change in the other person's expression with his own eyes, and knew in his heart that the content on the note must be very magical for this stubborn and arrogant person to be unable to express even the slightest opinion. He was surprised and a little anxious.

"let me see!"

Ma Xiaofei grabbed the note and read it softly in Chinese;

"Be loyal to fighting, loyal to life, loyal to yourself, and be one with the Tao."

English: "Loyal to the wrestle, loyal to life, loyal to yourself, with Tao into one."

…

In the end, this small confrontation ended with Gao Yun winning, and the result was gratifying.

The UFC will not only set this sentence he wrote as the new slogan of the event and let all its athletes implement it as the central idea, but Dana White will also criticize the frequent trash talk of the players at the media conference before each game.

The situation will be contained. The UFC will also establish a Chinese division. Under the leadership of Gao Yun, the overall cultural strategic shift of UFC events and the image shaping of the Chinese region will be carried out.

Dana White handles business in other countries except China. He will give more guidance and has no power to impose orders.

Perfect, very perfect, this is in line with Gao Yun's original expectation of controlling UFC.

Although Dana White is indeed very good at the fighting business, his cultural level is not very high, and the UFC has reached a bottleneck at this stage. Gao Yun doubts whether Dana White still has the ability to lead the UFC forward.

, the rights that should be grasped must be grasped, and the management must be managed. Count on others to lead, and someone will believe in yourself more.

Dana Bai felt a sense of crisis, but it didn't matter more. After all, it was just a Chinese district. Gao Yun, as the second largest shareholder, really wanted to take control of it, and he couldn't stop it, either emotionally or rationally. Because Gao Yun is Chinese,

Since he is more familiar with this country, the development of the Chinese market will naturally be left to him. Dana White, who has been unable to really achieve results in China, should give way to others. In fact, this is one of the reasons why UFC chose to cooperate with Gao Yun.

After the luncheon, Gao Yun, Dana White and others came to the conference venue of the Bulgari Hotel to hold a formal acquisition signing ceremony and face interviews with reporters.

This is an indispensable link. With Gao Yun's fame and traffic, for such a big deal as the acquisition of UFC, there is no problem in being a free hot search. Don't let this attention go to waste.

There were quite a few reporters here, including online media. In addition to announcing the acquisition amount, Dana White and Gao Yun also talked about other things. They were nothing more than the reasons for the cooperation between the two parties, the future development prospects and development of the UFC.

trends, and the deeper meaning of cooperation...

Thirty minutes later, the press conference entered a free question and answer session. A female reporter from Phoenix TV stood up and asked curiously:

"Ayun, what do you think of traditional martial arts? As far as I know, you seem to have never studied our country's traditional martial arts. Do you think it is not practical enough and has no martial arts qualities?"

Neurological problem!

Gao Yun really didn't want to answer. The topic of martial arts training is too sensitive. Popular sports and modern fighting elite sports, scientific training systems and martial arts systems are also a kind of "technology" for ordinary people who have never been exposed to fighting.

, is the intersection of martial arts technical system, sports biomechanics, sports training, medical anatomy, strength and physical training and other disciplines. Fighting technology is always the latest and best... but I feel it is too time-consuming and easy to be interpreted maliciously.

Being attacked by netizens for being unpatriotic?!

But the female reporter is pretty good-looking. She stood up and asked questions sincerely. It would be rude not to answer. Moreover, if she answered well, she would also become a topic on the Internet and bring more attention to UFC events and MMA sports.

"..."

Gao Yun thought for a few seconds and then said: "A long time ago, when I first learned MMA from my friends, I came into contact with martial artists who practiced martial arts. But the other person's personal level was not very good, and he still went with my friend.
To be continued...