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Imagine reading a headline like that, during the height of your career, whip your popularity is of its peak and the world believes you invincible, well that's exactly what Bruce Lee read during the morning of March 20th 1973, and as you can imagine he wasn't very happy about it. The article was supposedly written by Yip Chun, son of Bruce's Wing Chun instructor Yip Man, and detailed a battle that had taken place between Bruce and another youth named Yeung Yat Fung during the 1950's.  The basic gist of the story is that Bruce had challenged Yeung to a fight and after a suitable location was decided Bruce and Yeung squared off to fight. After a long pause Bruce threw out a straight punch at Yeung, which missed Yeung completely, this gave Yeung an opening and he threw a strike back, which put Bruce down. Bruce quickly got to his feet and without saying a word, turned and walked away. On March 17th , the Hong Kong based English newspaper The Star published the first of a four part article, entitled "The Bruce Lee Story" by Yip Chun, the first three parts dealt with some of the past events involving Bruce and his instructor Yip Man, however the fourth instalment on March 20th had the sub-heading "The day Bruce was floored with one blow".

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