Tai Chi Master Who Ran Away From Xu Xiaodong Fights MMA Hobbyist

This happened May 17, 2020, and it involved self-proclaimed Tai Chi Master Ma Bao Guo 马保国 and an MMA hobbyist. For those of you who've been following Chinese MMA news, this is the same Ma Bao Guo Tai Chi master that ran away from the Xu Xiaodong match in 2017. Three years later, Ma Baoguo tests his Tai Chi and Xingyi against a 50-year-old MMA hobbyist in an official match put on by Yan Wu Tang 16 fight promotion in Shandong. The match was not in a ring or a cage, but on what looks like the ground. Jerry and Rob cover the match and also share with you the thoughts of Andy Pi, the father of BJJ and MMA in China. Let us know what you think about this. Should these matches keep going? Should these fight promoters be disciplined? Do we need to be a little more cautious about putting on these matches? Update 2024: Apparently, the mma guy's striking foundation is kungfu, so that makes this guy actually a better representative of kungfu that people like Ma.

0:00 Intro
0:18 Background on Ma Baoguo
1:48 Andy Pi's thoughts
3:14 The match angle 1
4:10 The match angle 2
6:33 The match angle 3
7:07 More background

Sources we used in our research:
   • 太極掌門馬保國聲稱被其“打敗”的歐洲MMA冠軍Peter Irving親自...  
   • 6月26日，马保国在上海浦东游泳馆挑战徐晓东。比武开始前，马保国手携妻子，  
   • 浑元形意太极门马保国首次实战，不到30秒就被KO / Tai Chi Ma...  
   • 【中互聯功夫網】北京時間5月17日下午，在山東舉行了一場搏擊比賽，這項賽事...  
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