The Brutal Origins of Pit Fighting
Mar 17, 2020
3 minutes
BY MARK HATMAKER
LOOKING FARTHER BACK in history, however, one comes across the term “pit fighting” in reference to a hard form of Hawaiian kempo — which at one time was known as kajukenbo, yet another hybrid martial art originating in Hawaii in the late 1940s. The name kajukenbo, of course, is formed from the first letters of the names of the arts that constitute it: karate, judo, jujitsu, kenpo and boxing. Not a bad mix at all!
Kajukenbo still survives under
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