Vic Moore

Victor Moore (born August 23, 1943) is an American martial artist who holds a 10th Degree Black Belt in Karate and was one of the late Robert Trias' Chief instructors of the Shuri-ryū Karate system. Moore was one of the first ten original members of the Trias International Society and also studied and trained with William J. Dometrich in the style of Chito-ryu. Moore has studied martial arts for over 50 years, and is a four-time world karate champion.

History Moore began to travel with a handful of his students to several tournaments as far away as Canada. He later ventured out opening karate schools throughout the Cincinnati area and began traveling the Midwest and East coast. Being successful in competition, Jim Harrison defeated Moore in the first kickboxing tournament in the United States. Law Officer's get their first training manual by Harold Long of Tennessee and Victor Moore of Ohio and Hulon Willis of Virginia by order of Robert A. Trias of Arizona. Vic Moore gives seminar's all over the US and lives in Lumberton, NC where he teaches privately from his home.

Martial arts pioneer One of the first African-Americans to win a major karate competition (1965 USKA Grand Nationals). First kickboxing championship (1971 U.S. Kickboxing Championships) with Jim Harrison. with Jim McLain and Robert Trias Mike Stone, Jim 'Ronin' Harrison, Chuck Norris, and Joe Lewis.

World championships 1966 Defeating the all Hawaiian champion in Richmond Virginia. 1968 Defeating Joe Lewis 1969 Defeating Mike Stone 1970 Defeated the legendary Bill “Superfoot” Wallace to win the USKA first professional world championship.

In contrast, Moore and Grandmaster Steve Mohammed said that Lee had first told Moore that he was going to throw a straight punch to the body, which Moore blocked. Lee attempted another punch, and Moore blocked it as well. The third punch, which Lee threw to Moore's face, did not come nearly within striking distance. Moore claims that Lee never successfully struck Moore but Moore was able to strike Lee on two successful attempts, immediately after Lee had made the three attempts described above. Moore further claims that Bruce Lee said he was the fastest American he's ever seen and that Lee's media crew repeatedly played the one punch towards Moore's face that did not come within striking range, allegedly in an attempt to give the impression that Lee had thrown eight successive punches and thereby preserve Lee's superstar image.

In response to Moore and Mohammed's claims, Chuck Sullivan, who is the Senior Grandmaster of the International Karate Connection Association (IKCA) and who witnessed the event, recalled in an interview on Viking Samurai’s YouTube channel that Moore failed to block all incoming punches and never struck back at Bruce Lee. In the middle of the interview, the channel host called Moore by phone to confront him with Chuck's testimony. Moore stood by his claims and further asserted that Bruce Lee actually cried after failing to block his punches, an event that Sullivan categorically denied witnessing.