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Bruce Was Sent To America To Stop His Street Fighting

Just like a superhero, Bruce Lee has an origin story. Lee grew up on the streets of Hong Kong in the ’50s. At this time, British-owned Hong Kong was flooded with people trying to escape the repressive communist Chinese government, leading to overcrowding. This meant that Hong Kong was overrun with homelessness, poverty, and crime. As a child, Lee was in a gang called The Tigers Of Junction Street. Unfortunately, The Tigers Of Junction Street weren’t a very good gang and ended up getting beaten up pretty badly more than a few times. One day, 13-year-old Bruce arrived home with a black eye and asked for karate lessons. His mother said yes, and Bruce ended up with a mentor, the semi-legendary kung fu teacher called Yip Man.Most of what Bruce learned from Yip Man would be utilized in street fights. Lee carried knives and chains with him and would often challenge or straight up attack other gangs. Lee was fearless at this age, once attacking and beating up the son of a known Triad member. Eventually, his parents decided that he would be better off out of the country and had to bribe the police to have him taken off a list of known troublemakers so that he could travel to America.

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