Wednesday, March 14, 2007

The Ultimate Kung Fu Fighter

16 fighters on a tv show. Each week, they fight until only one is left. Reminds you of something ? No, it's not TUF, but Wulin Dahui (武林大会), a Chinese show with a similar concept.

The names means "The Great Tournament of Wudang and Shaolin", but the show is anything but great.
"The Crappy Tournament of Wudang and Shaolin" would be a far more appropriate name. What you have is two fighters representing their traditional fighting styles, and three 2 minutes rounds. In keeping with the old school spirit of Leitai fights, no holds are barred ! Well, except hitting or kicking the head, cause that would be too dangerous you understand.
And we can't have any ground fighting, or clinching too, because everybody knows it's boring.
Oh and fighters have to wear padding disguised as a bright yellow kung fu uniform.

Apparently the production realizes their own fighters sucks, because after each fight they bring out an old kung fu master to explain everything that they did wrong.

The only way they could possibly make this show suck less would be if they put the old kung fu master in a fight with the annoying announcing duo. And using Brazilian vale tudo rules, preferably.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Spot on mate!
The Shuaijiao guys arent taking part in this show becasue the Wrestling/Judo Administration Authority has some issue with the producers.
However, Coach Ma designed their leitai as they didnt know how!!!

After seeing the show i thought it might be cool to have the shuaijiao guys go in and clean up... but on the other hand, i think it is wise not to have Shuaijiao associated with something so "crappy"

There are some clips on Youtube. You could add them to this post

Keep Smilin'
Michael
shuaijiao.tv