Subcategories of "Sports Martial Artists":
- 1950 to 1959 (0)
- 1970 – 1979 (43)
- 1980 – 1989 (38)
- 1990 – 1999 (16)
- 2000 – 2009 (11)
- 2010 – 2019 (2)
- On The Way Up (2)
- SMA Who's Who A-E (15)
- SMA Who's Who F-J (13)
- SMA Who's Who K-O (21)
- SMA Who's Who P-T (17)
- SMA Who's Who U-Z (6)
Alexander, Gary
Article by: World Wide DojoFor those of you too young to know the real history of the Martial Arts in the U.S., in particular Isshinryu Karate, the main movement of Martial Arts in the U.S. got started in 1956. The main Isshinryu personalities of the time were Marines returning home from tours of duty in Okinawa, such as Don [...]
Bobrow, Mitchell
Article by: World Wide DojoMitchell Bobrow is a 7th degree Black Belt Master in the Korean art of Tang Soo Do and a 2nd degree Black Belt in Aikido. In the early 1960′s, Mitchell Bobrow began studying martial arts Tang Soo Do Moo Duk Kwan with Master Ki Whang Kim. Bobrow quickly developed into a champion martial arts fighter [...]
Corley, Joe
Article by: World Wide DojoJoe Corley is a master instructor with 36 years experience in the martial arts. Corley’s life-long purpose for being is to share the positive feelings of confidence, courage, intensity, focus, personal discipline and integrity engendered by good martial arts training and competition. He has done that through the promotion of the martial arts on television [...]
Dillman, George
Article by: World Wide DojoGeorge A. Dillman is a 9th degree black belt in Ryukyu Kempo Tomari-te. He was honored by Black Belt Magazine as “1997 — Instructor of the Year”. He is one of the USA’s best-known and well-established martial arts personalities. Dillman began competing in the early 1960′s and came to the attention of the martial arts [...]
J. Pat Burleson
Article by: World Wide DojoJ. Pat Burleson is founder of the American Karate system. He holds a 10th degree black belt. Pat began his study of the martial arts in Japan in 1957, and a career in sport karate competition in 1963. In addition to regional championships, he claimed the first US National Championship in Washington D.C. in 1964. [...]
Jackson, Howard
Article by: World Wide DojoMaster Howard Jackson hails from the mean streets of Detroit, Michigan. Survival was a daily affair and to do so Jackson looked to the martial arts as a means to that end. He started in 1967 training in kung fu, then changed to the Korean art of Tang Soo Do. Eventually Jackson trained under Harold [...]
Kurban, Roy
Article by: World Wide DojoGrandmaster Roy Kurban began his training under the Texas Greats, Allen Steen, Larry Caster, and Skipper Mullins. He received his black belt in 1968 under Grandmaster Allen Steen in the US and competed across the United States as a black belt throughout the 60′s and 70′s. Grandmaster Kurban began his traditional Taekwondo training under Grandmaster [...]
Lee, Johnny
Article by: World Wide DojoJohnny Lee was born in Danville, Georgia on September 16, 1950. His family moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1955 where he lived until 1964 when the family moved to Detroit, Michigan where they settled and where Johnny would continue to grow up. In 1964 Johnny was 5′ 11″ tall and weighed 95 pounds and [...]
Lewis, Joe
Article by: World Wide DojoJoe Lewis is an legendary American kickboxer and point karate fighter whose was extremely successful in the ring in the 1960s and 1970s. He was voted the greatest fighter in karate history two different times and has earned the titles of “United States Heavyweight Kickboxing Champion” and “World Heavyweight Karate Champion,” and “United States National [...]
Lieb, Ernest
Article by: World Wide DojoErnest Lieb was born in Berlin Germany in 1940 just as Hitler’s armies were devastating the European country side. In 1952 he and his parents immigrated to the United States. He became an American citizen in 1959. Even at the age of 12, Ernie was small and malnourished, weighing only 67 pounds. Life for him [...]
