Remember Chong Li from Bloodsport? [Archive]

Whitey Ford

01-25-2023, 12:11 AM

Bolo Yeung (a.k.a. Chong Li) was a champion bodybuilder and a close personal friend of Bruce Lee. He escaped commie china by literally jumping into the sea and swimming to Taiwan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t8I1ftQ6cc

But unfortunately his daughter didn't follow in her old man's footsteps of greatness.
https://i.ibb.co/0JXLvKw/D-D8-Scy-UEAAAegi.jpg

haywood

01-25-2023, 01:53 AM

Bolo Yeung (a.k.a. Chong Li) was a champion bodybuilder and a close personal friend of Bruce Lee. He escaped commie china by literally jumping into the sea and swimming to Taiwan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t8I1ftQ6cc

But unfortunately his daughter didn't follow in her old man's footsteps of greatness.
https://i.ibb.co/0JXLvKw/D-D8-Scy-UEAAAegi.jpg

Coal Burners!! The BANE of society!!

Ignatow

01-25-2023, 02:01 AM

I don't know if Chong LI is still alive. I've read good things about him as a person and as an actor. I've seen a picture of him as a senior. Now why would his daughter burn coal. It's a family tragedy.

Whitey Ford

01-25-2023, 05:06 AM

I don't know if Chong LI is still alive. I've read good things about him as a person and as an actor.

He's alive and doing well. About 75 years old, I believe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vU3ak57GHU

I aint bin dun did dat!

01-25-2023, 09:32 AM

I loved blood sport as a kid. I need to watch that with my son. Too bad his daughter is a mudshark.

jenkemfactory

01-25-2023, 02:14 PM

sunglasses please

Jim Crow

01-25-2023, 04:28 PM

I’ve always liked seeing Bolo Yeung in movies. i’m sure that he must be heartbroken to have a daughter that burns the coal.

Ignatow

01-25-2023, 05:13 PM

Bolo Yeung lives in Monterey Park! Now that's an expensive area, prices driven up by immigrants from China and Taiwan. Unfortunately, it has the dubious distinction of a massacre just before Chinese New Year. I don't know how a community can ever recover from that.

Sandy

01-26-2023, 12:49 AM

I loved blood sport as a kid. I need to watch that with my son. Too bad his daughter is a mudshark.

I was so young when I first saw "Enter the Dragon" that when I saw "Bloodsport" a few years later, I didn't know it was Yeung both times. I knew that like a lot of actors, he was probably nothing like the villains he played. Then I got to admire him when I read about his escape.

He must feel completely ashamed, maybe asking his ancestors every night where he went wrong.