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2023 in Budapest, Hungary. Most wins. Japan(188 medals) The Karate World Championships, also known as the World Karate Championships, are the highest level of competition for karateorganized by the World Karate Federation(WKF).
The PKA’s World Professional Karate Championships took place on September 14, 1974, at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena before an audience of 10,000 spectators. Joe Lewis won the heavyweight world title with a second-round knockout of Yugoslavia’s Franc Brodar.
Japan B. 2nd World Championships Paris, France 1972. Kumite Open Ippon. 1. Luiz Tasuke Watanabecá - Brazil. 2. Billy Higgins - Great Britain. 3. Istvan Sipter - Yugoslavia.
Nov 13, 2019 · His most notorious Karate accomplishments are the six World Professional Middleweight Karate Championships he won in six consecutive years before deciding to retire in 1974 as the reigning champion, as Biography tells us.
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Aug 31, 2003 · Joe Lewis was voted the greatest karate fighter of all time by the top fighters and promoters in 1983. Chuck Norris and Bill Wallace tied for second place. Judo Gene Lebell credited Joe as the person who “brought us full-contact karate.” 1974 was Joe’s final year in tournament karate competition.
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Aug 31, 2012 · In 1974 he beat his only opponent in the new sport of full contact karate with a 2nd round ridge hand knockout over Yugoslavia's Frank Brodar in Los Angeles, California to win the Professional Karate Association (PKA) Heavyweight full-contact karate title.
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After 2 years in Karate, back in the States, he entered his first tournament, the National Karate Championships, and won the Grand Championship. Lewis’ tournament career was to last six and one half years in which he won over 30 major titles, a record still unequalled.
