Facts About Donnie Yen You Didn't Know
This martial arts celebrity is not just famous in the Chinese media industry, but has also
made impressive forages into Hollywood!
He is also perhaps best-known as Ip-Man, the legendary Chinese Wing-Chun master.
Donnie Yen is a huge MMA fan Donnie Yen's SPL and Flashpoint have been
become the gold standards for blending Hong Kong action cinema with the sport of Mixed
Martial Arts into an entertaining yet realistic result.
He have studied so many traditional martial art styles; traditional Kung Fu, Wushu, Taekwondo,
Boxing, Karate because he was a martial artist before he was a film maker.
Then he realized this whole MMA thing actually brought an answer to all martial arts.
Donnie Yen vs. the Triads According to Hong Kong news reports in the
late 1990s, Yen was at a nightclub with his then girlfriend, Joey Meng who was getting
harassed by a gang of thugs.
Yen had warned them to leave her alone but to no avail and as Yen and Joey left the club,
the gang followed the couple and attacked Yen.
Yen allegedly hospitalized up to eight members of the gang.
Donnie Yens first major role After cutting his teeth as a stuntman, Donnie
Yen teamed up with acclaimed director Yuen Woo Ping who discovered the young Yen for
his first lead role in 1984's Drunken Tai Chi which followed the style of Jackie Chans
Drunken Master.
The film saw Yen starring as a mischievous boy who has to master the art of Tai Chi from
his drunken sifu to defeat an evil assassin.
Donnie Yen�s martial art beginnings Donnie Yen was born in Guangzhou, Guangdong,
China.
When he was two years old, his family moved to Hong Kong then settling in Boston, Massachusetts
when he was 11.
Having already studied Karate and Tai chi, his parents were concerned that he was spending
too much time in the Boston Combat Zone, they sent him to study in Beijing on a two-year
training program with the Beijing Wushu Team.
Pretty soon he was hanging out with UFC president Dana White who also resided in Boston in his
youth.
Donnie Yens mother is a martial arts grand master
Donnie Yen�s mother Bow-Sim Mark started studying martial arts in elementary school
and as she got serious started specializing in Wushu and Fu Tai Chi Chaun.
After moving to Boston, Massachusetts in 1975 she opened the Chinese Research Wushu Institution
making her one of the first people to bring Wushu to America and helped popularize it
in the east coast.
She has authored over 20 instructional books, DVD's etc. on the subject of Wushu in her
career.
His movie Ip Man beat Star Wars at the box office.
The movie kicked Star Wars: The Force Awakens off the top position a week after the latter
was released.
On Christmas Day, it set the record as the highest-grossing Chinese movie in a single
day in Singapore.
He accidentally kicked Mike Tyson in the crotch.
You can witness this scene in Ip Man 3.
Reportedly, Tyson did not even feel any pain and Donnie Yen even joked that perhaps Tyson
is trained to do so.
He is the brand ambassador for Resort World Sentosa.
He might be the ambassador for Wing-Chun in the movies, but in real life, he is the official
ambassador for RWS, along with his wife Cecilia Wang.
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