February 27, 2019

Greetings fellow Bizarros:

We have all seen martial arts movies where the characters can do superhuman things; leap incredible distances, catch bullets, cling to walls, disappear, but what about a martial artist who fights animals?

You might have heard of Masutatsu Oyama. He founded Kyokushin Karate and among the many stories about his career were his famous bare-handed bull fights. Whether or not these episodes were propaganda or real actual fights with bulls, the stories were famous enough to inspire a 1975 film called 'Karate Bullfighter' starring Sonny Chiba.

But even still, those are just stories and movies. Real, modern day martial artists don't train by fighting animals five times their size, do they?

Several times a week, kung fu teacher Ren Ruzhi of Beijing, China enters a ring to spar with a bovine opponent around five times his weight and capable of killing him, but the 24-year-old has never been hurt. Besides, he says, grappling with a snorting bull is exciting.

"It symbolizes the bravery of a man," Ren said.

Unlike Spain's more famous sport, the Chinese variant of bullfighting involves no swords or gore but instead fuses the moves of wrestling with the skill and speed of kung fu to bring down beasts weighing over 800 lbs.

Bizarrely,
Lewis

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READER COMMENTS

Guess he was watching the tv show "IZombie" and thought if he ate her brains, he would become part of her personality. Doesn't work that way.
[How do you know?]


Lewis, The story was bad, but to put an add for and air fryer at the end of it--too far! -G
[I never said the boyfriend used the Copper King Air Fryer on his girlfriend, but this incredible little fryer can cook almost anything.]


A man wearing a gorilla costume in order to sneak into people's back yards? Is that considered inconspicuous in Louisiana?
[Nope. That's why he was arrested.]

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