1981 Epic Kungfu vs Karate Kickboxing Match - Kong-Fu Tak vs Benny The Jet 

If anyone has more footage of this Kong-Fu Tak, please please send us!!

"Very formidable" is still an understatement tbh, Benny is more of a legend.

Benny is a legend. Anyone that stands in the ring with him deserves some serious respect.

Either way, the Kungfu guy is legit tough. You can feel those shots through the screen, and he took them all without losing composure.

The way Benny helped him up after the sweep was pure class!

Mr Kong Fu Tak isn’t just a Kung fu guy, he studied kung fu when he was very young. At that time there wasn’t many foreign martial arts available in Hong Kong, then he was sent to UK by his dad and he got a chance to learn boxing and kickboxing. According to one of his interviews, he had been told that he could clinch and knee before this fight against Benny, but when he arrived the venue, he was told that clinch and knee were not allowed

One thing is sure, the kung fu guy was tough as nails, he took so much punishment yet he never slowed down. I wonder what became of him,, he certainly had the heart of a fighter.

Anyone stepping in the ring with Benny at that time deserves a medal!

Don't you people forget Benny was the frikkin top of the fighting game in his time, and this "no name" kung fu guy went toe to toe against him.

Sensei Benny “The Jet” Urquidez is a HomeTown Hero & trainer of a couple of siblings. I watched Benny as the 11 year old kid that I was, go from Point Comp ( he was winning GC at 16) to Full Contact (as it was called at the time). BTW Shotokan & Kempo were far more popular in Los Angeles, where we are from, than any other style at the time ….. though Chuck Norris had 9 Tang Soo Do Dojos throughout The City. *You need to do your research on Benny* He cleared House in Japan., defeating Champions & Top 5 Fighters. His Dad was a Pro Boxer , Mom was a Pro Wrestler & Everyone in the family fought, including his World Champion Sister. This was a Challenge- Pick Up Fight & Benny was going easy.A completely spontaneous & extemporaneous. *Benny is The Greatest KickBoxer of All•Time* Benny also defeated all 4 Thai Fighters he fought. His legendary move was a Jump Spinning BackKick to the Liver & one helluva hip toss from The Clinch. You YoungBloods need to become familiar with Halcyon days of American Martial Arts in The 70’s & it’s impact on today’s Martial Art Culture

Kong Fu Tak was karate and kung fu trained who switched to kickboxing and Muay Thai. He trained with the legend Steve Morris in the UK, who also coached Vincent Jauncey (the father and trainer of Josh Jauncey - the Glory lightweight fighter). He still teaches Muay Thai today in Hong Kong. You should check out his fight against Billy Chow.

As always; thank you for digging up these amazing matches for us to watch. You are great

The fact this kung fu guy lasted this long was quite respectable back then

Benny The Jet comes from a fighting family, his father was a boxer his mom was a professional wrestler. Benny studied many martial arts and boxing, he competed in point karate and made the transition to full contact karate, he was one of the first Americans to go to Thailand and beat the Maui Thai fighters, he also fought alot in Japan and was so popular he had his own comic book. Back in the 70s there was alot of transitioning going on with the introduction of safety gear and contact we soon learned alot of techniques didn't work. Benny was a founding father of modern combat sports and will always be respected in the community.

Awesome video! Hope you do more Benny the Jet breakdowns, he is such a legend

It's interesting that because there's no knees, Benny instead throws a kind of short range stabbing front kick to the body on the break like at 7:10, chambering his knee super high to make room for it - a pretty unique technique to get around that particular ruleset!

Your channel rocks man! Best vids you find. Quickly becoming a channel favorite for me. In the 90’s as a teen I seriously contemplated moving an hour South of here to Bennies place to train there. It would have been a blast but a couple years too young to live on my own in a big city I think. An amazing fighter and legend in the ma world

For the record, the HK fighter in white is not a Kung-fu guy. His name is 江富德 and he was one of the 3 top kickboxing and Thai boxing competitors in HK back in the 80s with a background in boxing, Thai boxing, and Karate. He's owned a successful Thai boxing/kickboxing gym in HK since 1985.

The scene from wheels on meals where Benny puts out the light from some candles with a kick lives rent free in my head

Always x 1000 ❤ watching Benny fighting. The guy’s so talented!

Benny the jet is dope I respect him I think he would be good in mma and he had amazing fight with Jackie Chan they both hit each other hard in that fight scene

Meals on Wheels! love the fights in that movie. the whole movie all around!

Awesome video! I always enjoy watching the occasional style vs style fights from this era. Hope you enjoy your mushroom juice Jerry ^^

Benny hit like a truck, but he won like a gentleman ie. helping his opponent up after dropping him. Sportsmanship doesn’t seek victory at the expense of dignity.

Yo Dragons Forever has some of my favorite fight scenes starring Benny

Full contact. I may be wrong but I would say this combat is under full contact rules. The satin trousers with the "karate" belt Mr Urquidez is wearing gives a hint. Another big one is the lack of low kicks or knee strikes. Under full contact rules all kicks were above the belt except sweeps. If I remember correctly it was similar to boxing and was the natural "upgrade" from karate. Then K1 came with the change in rules, basically introducing low kicks, and satin shorts without "karate" belts. And that was the thing until Muay Thai came through adding elbows. The evolution of "kickboxing" in the late 70's and 80's was wild. From "karate" to "full contact" with a variety of kicks then "kick boxing" with more "simple" kicking and after that Muay Thai came and became the king. I'm sure the popularity of certain films and actors had a lot to do with the "evolution". And that's without mentioning the Boom of ninja films and the subsequent variety of "ninja masters". As I said the 80's were wild.😂

benny said he remembered as a boy watching bruce lee do a demo at a tournament and he was in awe of bruces speed and power, adding i was only young but i could tell this was someone very special.

"It's gotta be the hair Cotton, it's beautiful, feathered and lethal, you just don't see it nowadays"

Great fight 😊

Great video, love the hat, makes me think of Luffy.

Beeny the Great Fighter !!! Tough as Nail !!!One of the Best !!!

This was cool, Kung Fu guy did pretty well 😄.

Don’t know the two, but this Benny looks legendary. The 80’s was a cool era for this

Benny The Jet!!! you gotta watch him fight Jackie Chan in the movies its crazy Amazing!! a great villain!!

Can you please do a review on Manson Gibson. Apparently he was a taekwondo and mantis practitioner that thought in k1 and beat all the legendary mauy thai fighters of his generation but not many people know his story.

This "traditional" kickboxing is what you said, many different styles using their kicks + the boxing method of punching and evading. Nowadays you can call ways of training karate, TKD and the such as kickboxing training.

Without knowing one of them was a kung-fu-guy, I never would have guessed. Both were kickboxing.

ok watching this video seems very different from Benny's recount of the story. I also didn't see Benny sitting on the guy, or doing a flip. I didn't see the guy raise his hands and scream "fight to the death" every round, but i might've missed that. but anyway, based on this video, the guy did better than I thought.

Kickboxer like Benny were piont Karate guys that moved onto Kickboxing through full contact pad work to boxing training and a alot sparring. It doesn't take much ti cross over back then because most clubs called it freestyle Karate did alot of freestyle sparring which was basically Kickboxing sparring without hook punches and upper cuts.

I love how relaxed and loose Benny looks

Benny is actually a reverse southpaw. He is left-handed but fought with his left leg in front.

Benny the Jet. Pretty sure he had those bottoms on in the old school Martial Arts magazine called Martial Arts lol 🔥🔥

Benny is such a great fighter by the way one question at that time does sanshou exist? Because I don’t think that kung fu fighter was a sanshou practitioner?

My favorite style. I'm a karate kickboxer I just added Muay Thai lowkicks and grappling cuz obviously we're all MMA fighters now but my wheel house is boxing with high kicks

Benny the Jet is a legend. Well done to him. He was on the film Wheels on Meals with Jackie Chan Kung fu fighter, seems like he’s trying something

Not to shabby 😃

Jerry, I should 'correct you' that Kong-Fu Tak is not a 'purely' KungFu guy as his base is Karate, boxing and Thai boxing. Form his interview few years ago, he said when he got kick by Benny on his eye, his vision has been reduced to 40%. Alos, the reason why no knees nor elbow, was because on the previous day of the match, the organisation changed the rules to kick and strike only.

I agree that Benny threw a mae geri at around 4:15ish, but I would say that the mae geri is a very different kind of kick than a push kick (teep). Push kicks are, mechanically speaking, something akin to actually stepping/stomping on an opponent. Mae geri instead uses the knee as a hinge and sends the ball of the foot into the target at a very high speed (this, as opposed to extending the entire leg into the target, a la the teep). Both great, just different. If you haven't already, you could probably teach yourself a basic mae geri on your heavy bag in 5 minutes, it's a very simple kick. Just make sure to pull those toes back.

Kung Fu guy looks pretty legit. Especially compared to others on this channel.

Kong Fu Tak did kickboxing as well as Muay Thai as well, even though he was from a kung fu origin

You should try to track down Rick Spain vs Benny the jet in 1983ish. Rick Spain was world full contact Kung Fu champ at the time and they apparently went twelve good rounds together. Rick Spain is great btw he's a Kiwi that lives and teaches in Australia. Learnt wing Chun from William Cheung. Has a black belt in BJJ as well as karate. Learnt Kali/escrima, boxing, Muay Thai. Still teaches in Sydney both traditional wing Chun and MMA and BJJ. I used to train there ages ago (do Muay Thai these days) and he is legit there was always a strong focus on full contact sparring so the wing Chun is battle tested

I think Kong Fu-tak is actually a Muay Thai guy, just based in HK

Benny the Jet, 江富德，both are true legends.

Props to the guy that tried.

It was guys like Benny the Jet, Bill Superfoot Wallace, Chuck Norris, Jackie Chan, Joe Lewis And Bruce Lee. I watch them all. And developed my own style, using thier tested and tried techniques, for my body type and age. Im 46, been hardcore training for the last 2 years. This kung-fu guy got schooled by the best and actually learned something, looks like! I did!😁

The chars for mae geri are 前蹴り, the kana is ri btw.

Many movies and a bit more than famous..he is a kickboxing legend….

Is Benny a kyokushin fighter..??

Benny the jet is above a label. Of style.

Kong Fu Tak was super tough.

Actually Benny the Jet was in two different Jackie Chan movies, Spartan X (AKS Wheels On Meals) and Dragons Forever.

Benny is walking through this guy

Benny's kicks aren't very impressive, but his boxing is exceptional

If the kungfu guy won this video would be recommended for everyone

kungfu guy gave it his all, he held his own even though he lost

Heh, I love your anti-product-review!

Mae Geri means FRONT KICK.

This was to be a death match back in the day

Mate that Hongkong boxer is PKA boxer and he after this fight going to Thailand training really hard how he is the best Muai Thai master in Hongkong his grand student now is fight in one championship

Probably a Lei-tai match or spelled it as Lighting-table in Cantonese/hakka And I guess that's a Choy Li fut guy Any wing chunners would have been turned into Char-Saw/Meat bun in the first round. I think it's kinda sad why they(HKers and every Southern Chinese MA) didn't go from there in the 80 and developed their own version of a more combat orientated Martial Arts. while everyone was busy cosplaying Bruce Lee and larping Jeet kun doo.

tell you what guys this kung fu guy wasnt destroyed by benny was he he did really well thats no easy feat going up against benny. kudo,s to him.

Tak did well considering who he fought

This isn’t Benny at full speed. It’s a game effort by the kung-fu guy, but this is mainly Benny playing with his food.

Irrelevant: Huge weight difference. Not in the same weight category.

These are the characters of mae geri: 前蹴り

Benny looks more beefed up. While the kung fu guy doesn't look really conditioned, and his strikes seem to lack power. Benny could have hurt the other guy more than he did, because he just seems more experienced. Benny would look more relaxed. That's probably because he was, and also much more experienced. If the kung fu guy had challenged Benny in the first place, good for him. Benny was at the peak of his game at the time, and Kung Fu Tak could have gained a great rep if he beat Benny. Bit like in the old west, where the young gun gained the rep by killing the old gunman!

Benny was one of the first to defeat Muay Thai fighters.

This is not a fair comparison between styles, if that is even possible. Here it is a far more experienced kickboxer (who uses more karate as his base skillset) vs a less experienced kickboxer (who uses more kung fu as his base skillset).

Even Jackie Chan is afraid to fight Benny that's how great he is.

King fungu giy is one tough guy

Not bad considering he was fighting Benny Urquidez.... but this is how it was back than...

the dude in red messing him up whenever he gets close and the other guy tucks in

It's never the martial art, it's always the martial artist.

Its Benny

The Kung Fu guy is probably a Sanda kickboxer and is legit tough, but the way he covers up would not work in a Muay Thai match with knees. He's putting his head right there for the knee

Fun fact-Benny is a lefty fighting orthy.

Good PR for Kung fu even though he lost.

One of the best ways to know who’s a better fighter? Well, two men enter the ring. When the match is over one still looks human and the other man’s face looks like an alien. That’s what happened here. 😂🤷

In the end of the day, they end up doing kick boxing. :)

Benny The Jet, going easy . 🇦🇺👍

Benny jet?!! Look like he taking his time being Flat footed!

Well Benny has extensive fighting experience & having practised and mastered nurmerous forms of martial arts. And it is clear the Kung Fu fighter does not have have the same experience or exporsure.

Yes that Kung Fu guy did well. Just goes to show it’s the fighter not the style. Didn’t have a glass chin and took shots well.

Do you know why Benny's relaxed? Kung Fu dude started the match with a Cat Stance and went with it for much of the first round. There's an idiom called "caught on the back foot". The Cat Stance basically puts you into that.

So who is Kung Fu guy? It's hard to imagine that a contestant in a fight with a celebrity like Benny the Jet would go forgotten.

Hey bud, just so you know, Benny used to crush Muay Thai fighters

Benny stats 63-1 -57 KOs World Kickboxchampion fo over 20 years :D To me Benny wasnt fighting serious or most of the match because he never used his famous signatur kick not even once.

Benny had an incredible role in the amazing 90s movie "Gross Point Blank" - possibly mr favorite movie of all time

This is one of the pick-upfights the Jet had on his earliest trips to Asia. The Asians wanted to find someone to beat "The Jet". They couldn't. He beat'em all!............😅

Kungfu guy is doing kick boxing