event

1954 Macau charity match, Wu Gongyi vs Chen Kefu

Challenge · 1954
Macau Macao

Also known as

Wu vs. Chan, 1954

Description

Exhibition match in Macau in early 1954 between Wu Gongyi, head of the Wu-style taijiquan association in Hong Kong, and Chen Kefu of Tibetan White Crane, after Wu's open challenge of August 1953. Held for charity after the Shek Kip Mei fire, it ended without a clear result and set off a boom in martial arts schools and wuxia fiction.

Participants (2)

  • Wu GongyiCompetitor
    fact_checkassessed by FSMverified
    Frederico Muñoz
    Researcher, Martialis
    2 sources expand_more
    fact_check
    Two sources.
    “This mass confrontation was the last straw, and on New Year’s day, 1954, Wu and Chen signed a contract to fight in one month.”
    — Judkins, Benjamin N.; Nielson, Jon. (2015). The Creation of Wing Chun: A Social History of the Southern Chinese Martial Arts link info
    “when in 1954 Chan Hak Fu of Macau faced off against Hong Kong's recently arrived Wu Gongyi (吳公儀) in a popular public match organized for charity and held in Macau.”
    — Tibetan White Crane (Wikipedia EN)link history info
  • Chen KefuCompetitor
    fact_checkassessed by FSMverified
    Frederico Muñoz
    Researcher, Martialis
    2 sources expand_more
    fact_check
    Two sources.
    “This mass confrontation was the last straw, and on New Year’s day, 1954, Wu and Chen signed a contract to fight in one month.”
    — Judkins, Benjamin N.; Nielson, Jon. (2015). The Creation of Wing Chun: A Social History of the Southern Chinese Martial Arts link info
    “when in 1954 Chan Hak Fu of Macau faced off against Hong Kong's recently arrived Wu Gongyi (吳公儀) in a popular public match organized for charity and held in Macau.”
    — Tibetan White Crane (Wikipedia EN)link history info

Tags

chinese-martial-arts

Sources

Judkins, Benjamin N.; Nielson, Jon. (2015). The Creation of Wing Chun: A Social History of the Southern Chinese Martial Artslink info
Tibetan White Crane (Wikipedia EN)link history info

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Muñoz, Frederico (YEAR_PLACEHOLDER). 1954 Macau charity match, Wu Gongyi vs Chen Kefu. In Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database. https://martial.is/entity/01M69ZB9CR47MVHR56V2PXF44T - CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER.
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@incollection{martialis_01M69ZB9CR47MVHR56V2PXF44T, author = {Muñoz, Frederico}, title = {1954 Macau charity match, Wu Gongyi vs Chen Kefu}, booktitle = {Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database}, year = {YEAR_PLACEHOLDER}, url = {https://martial.is/entity/01M69ZB9CR47MVHR56V2PXF44T}, urldate = {ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER}, note = {CC BY-SA 4.0} }
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