I use to wrestle and work out with Ernie back in our High School days of 70 -74 and on the wrestling team. I knew he was going to be moor up the chain! My name is Mike Bowden and we we went to Roosevelt high togeteher. Hope you are well.
Earnest Hart Jr was a great fighter in his own right, but his claim of being the shootfighting instructor is bogus. Hart fought the shootboxing exhibition bout in S.Louis MO with Ike Stafford, who around 1990, had been closely working with the founder of the sport, Caeser Takeshi. The truth is Hart never learned anything Shootfighting related. He claimed the stuff he taught was huge in Japan, etc ,but never traveled across the Pacific.
