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 Some infomation about Mr Joe Lewis, the legend!..

Joe Lewis will have the biggest fight of his life, we all at ProKick wish him well.

Joe Lewis is an American kickboxer, point karate fighter, and actor. As a fighter, Lewis gained fame for his matches in the 1960s and 1970s. He has twice been voted the greatest fighter in karate history, and has attained the titles of United States Heavyweight Kickboxing Champion, to World Heavyweight Karate Champion,  and United States National Black Belt Kata Champion.

Joe Lewis was born on March 7, 1944 in Knightdale, North Carolina. Joined the United States Marine Corps in 1962 and was stationed at Cherry Point in Havelock, North Carolina.

He studied Shorin-ryu Karate with Eizo Shimabukuro, John Korab, Chinsaku Kinjo andSeiyu Oyata in Okinawa while serving in the United States Marine Corps, earning his black belt in a mere seven months.
He was one of the first Marines stationed in Vietnam, there meeting Rocky Marciano. Upon returning to the USA, he began a winning tournament career.
From 1967 to 1968, he studied privately with the influential martial artist and Jeet Kune Do founder Bruce Lee.

At the age of 39, in 1983, Joe Lewis launched a comeback which saw him earn a top-10 PKA world ranking. In his bid for a title Lewis defeated T. Morrison, Charlton Young, Melvin Cole and Curtis Crandal.
On April 16, Lewis lost to Tom Hall in an upset. On August 10, Lewis suffered a disappointing 4th round technical knockout (TKO) loss to US heavyweight champion Kerry Roop for the PKA US heavyweight title. Lewis retired after the defeat. Joe Lewis's competitive career in kickboxing and PKA full-contact karate ended with a combined record of 15 wins and 4 losses (The PKA World title record was 5 wins 4 losses). In 1990 Lewis (198 lbs) fought one last exhibition kickboxing/karate match with friend Bill Wallace (166 lbs) on pay per view. Both Lewis and Wallace were refused a boxing license because of their age. The exhibition ended with two judges scoring a tie and one judge giving the fight to Wallace in the exhibition event.

Mr Joe Lewis continues to act as a kickboxing ambassador and still travels across the world teaching. 

 

Let's hope and pray Mr Lewis makes a full recovery as the four original world champions are re-uniting for the first time on December 3rd in Geneva. Organised by the European Kingpin Mr Carl Emery, this was a great coup when all four agreed to meet for a dinner and a seminar.