China's MMA Club for Poor and Orphaned Boys
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- čas přidán 31. 10. 2017
- In Chengdu, China, Enbo MMA Club has become a home for orphans and kids from impoverished homes who come to train as mixed martial arts experts. The club's founder, Mr. Enbo, has trained hundreds of young fighters free of charge, like Banma Duoji, an 18-year-old who grew up poor in a single-parent home in Tibet.
On this episode of 'VICE INTL,' Banma explains how he ended up at the club, and how Enbo has become a father figure who's helped him turn into one of the group's fiercest fighters. Then we follow Banma as he trains for a big pro match, where the "Prince of Fighters" looks to maintain his impressive five-fight winning streak.
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Enbo MMA Club has trained hundreds of children from impoverished Tibetan communities, giving kids like Banma Duoji-a rising professional competitor-a chance to thrive.
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VICE it’s Penpa Dorji, there is no such name as Banda Duoji in our culture. If you are against Chinese oppression in Tibet, then please make the corrections.
It's Banma Duoji, not Banda Duoji. And also Tibet is a part of China.
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This is actually REALLY Cool because anybody can simply watch some MMA fights or choose favorites based on simply the Persons Fighting Skills or even the amount of Fame, (or Infamy), a Name has such as McGregor or Anderson Silva for example.
But unless your a avid Fan of MMA and specifically look up backgrounds or Histories of Fighters, not alot of people actually get to see how different Fighters really are ethnically and Mentally and what led them to MMA and the reason they chose the Blood Sport amongst all the other things out there to choose from.
Really Great Video and you definitely earned my "Thumbs Up" for the Video. 👍
These poor orphaned boys dress fresher than I do.
Thats what im saying 😂😂😂 im thinking how do they have these designer looking clothes whilst im sitting here with ripped pyjamas
Could be cheap chinese ripp-offs
in china there are a lot of small company that make designer like clothes with mass production and cheap...
I moved to China and ALL the guys dress really nice!!!
ABN Networks Right? I’ve been wearing the same shoes to the gym for the past 8 years.
Jesus Christ the quality of the vid made me feel like I'm watching a movie
hajime no ippo
better then twilight
Good job Vice China.
I remember watching this 2 years ago but when I watch this now, it seems as though they added an introduction, shortened the video and changed the music.
The poor and disenfranchised always make the best fighters. They’re not fighting for the sport, they’re fighting to survive. It’s the stereotype of every great boxing film/story.
Shoxty That's what I always say too. A large percentage of good boxers & fighters are Irish because it used to be a poor country. Poorer countries definitely develop better fighters in sport.
True they are not fighting for glory they are fighting to eat,so he has to knock you out to feed his family ...
Mexican Boxers too
Everybody gravitates towards the path that is best suited to their skills, intelligence, and work ethic. If you like math maybe you go into accounting or physics. If your good at fixing or building things maybe you become a mechanic or architect. If you can tolerate blood and like helping the sick you become a doctor. Whatever it takes to survive, just like these Chinese kids. I hope the UFC will visit their fight club.
Yeah, it's true. Whether it's in the US, Mexico, the Philippines. The fighters who start out with the least always fight the hardest.
I was constantly thinking about the reason behind these boys' power and will to fight, to keep going. They are not just doing it because they have nothing better to do, they are actually trying to provide for themselves, their family and escape the sad life they would otherwise have. So many of us can't imagine living the way these people do and I feel nothing but deep respect for all of them!
good for you
meanwhile in American spoil little brats crying because they lost their ipad.
Poor kids make the best fighters. Example: Pacman, GGG, most of the South American fighters.
In general poor immigrants work harder because they remember being hungry and going to bed without food.
there is nothing wrong with hoarding yaks
Quick Fix I would say that goes for most kids that go in to pro sports in China
The japanese dude with the white hair looks like an anime villain lmaooo
hahaha imagine the fight with hajime no ippo artstyle.
Frank White Maybe he loves anime
he is japanese
Frank White he is a evil villain
Frank White He actually looks a lot like one of the main villains in Rush Hour lol.😂
Im wishing this kid nothing but the best for his future as an MMA fighter , hope that one day the UFC notices him and makes a success of his career , much love my brother God bless : ) from Cape Town South Africa .
MMA will rip him off better fighting in Asia
@SS they are just kids they are still learning and learing dont think conor mgregor is born with the perfect stand and perfect techniek
SS it’s called practicing and improving
SS theres always room for training, you will understand some day.
F*ck ufc. he is signed for one championship now. biggest mma organization in asia.
Kid has a badass accent when speaking Chinese too.. wish I was that cool when i was 18
how old are you ?
U would probably wish the same when u see a cool 50 years old dude
His accent is annoying
Yeah I noticed that too, the accent is hella cool
@@nutlover3609 what makes it annoying huh?
really well filmed , no hipster pothead reporter and no implied politics.
yes, no implied politics in this film, if your deaf and blind.
Takyr Dai oh really I didn't see it. Will you explain your reasoning pls
For starters this kid is from tibet which china took over, destroying the culture and family life. Then you have the issue that these children are poor and or orphans were the only way out is to fight other poor orphans? Now you have children fighting in the fields of sorrow, either from being impoverished or without parents among other things, learning to fight in a cage until their body is broken... there is plenty more to go on...
Takyr Dai i think Dean meant that the director of this documentary filmed it without a political opinion in mind, in contrast to many of Vices films; he filmed only to show us of the successes and failures of the school and the fighter.
the politics wasn't implied, he's right, they showed it as it was.
More content like this. Content that focuses on the story of an individual person, as apposed to just documenting a topic.
dude get out of here ....
habalula15 why? Does an opinion bother you?
Yeah. I agree. I really enjoyed this video because it’s so realistic. I don’t travel a lot so I don’t have the opportunity to meet people from different countries, cities, towns.. different family backgrounds even. It’s really amazing to be able to see a tiny snippet of someone’s life. You really start to look at your life after this. I just find it fascinating how every single person is brought up differently in different situations. These are the things that shape a person’s mind and character, after all.
yes, and ANTI POLITICS will be wonderful, I'm done with Politics
I was about to make my picks for one championship in tapology.. then I realized the face and the name was familiar. Duoji Banma is now fighting in one championship 3 years after this documentary. Dreams really do come true. What a journey !!!
I really hope the Chinese government not only let Enbo re-open but also fund them. Please. These kids deserve a chance.
Eric Tsoi did it close??
if you did actually care enough you would've found out the day before you wrote this comment, not only the club has re-opened but from the support of the government, they are now a sport school meaning the boys will get qualified education with better facilities and environment
People with their own agenda actually don't give a shit. They only care about defaming CCP in the hope to benefit from China's political instability.
Edgy it isn't shut.
NS Redpill It already reopened
Enbo is a good man a good person .he keeping these kids out of trouble ,God bless this man and these young kids
i am chinese careful on what u see because that is not always the case yall westerners are stupid and safe thus u dont not recognize when people deceive u and act
kizaru melon yall western are stupid?
Lmao I’m not even a westerner but I feel offended somehow
Btw it’s don’t not dont not
kizaru melon btw he’s just complimenting the guy
Why are you being so salty?
I think what the other person is saying yes he’s getting them out... but in reality he’s trying to train some kids to fight n hoping they will make him money, it’s not that he opened a missionary or a ministry safe haven like we have in the states and is helping and raising money for children, he’s teaching them to fight lol because of the standards in the us you will really never have a situation like this, while it’s cool in me vies, if someone was raising kids to fight and giving them all they needed to survive Americans would probably protest it. It’s kind of like when we hear if child labor in China, them were like oh no that’s not good! Lol but I’m from Europe I worked hard as a kid so for me it’s w.e I was able to stay home alone at an early age like 5 lol 😂 I was able to buy cigs and alcohol for my parents too at that age but in America that’s crazy. So I understand what the Chinese commenter meant
@@kizarumelon2477 Americans want to criticize us but they're all a bunch of white people (non native americans) who live in that country
I don’t know who is watching this in 2021 but one of the boys from Enbo , Su Mudaerji just got his third straight win in the UFC. One day he could be UFC champion.
14:08 - 14:13 I really like the transition
Was just about to post the same thing
what did he say?
iativ the steadicam shooting technique transitioning from follow walk to pan boxing ring exposition.
Same! Great job!
that's some *Sherlock Holmes'* level transition. 😁
I'm so proud to be a Tibetan!
As a Tibetan Chinese, I am even more proud!
He's a malicious Chinese pretending to be a Tibetan
This is like the first video in months that piqued my interest and I clicked on, more content like this.
Where can I get his jacket tho?
The camo one
That’s what I’m wondering too
Bape, Alpha industries,...
His dorm
It’s a Traditional clothes from Tibet.
He‘s handsome
lol weeb
chunkydonkey I’m a girl but that’s okay keep your head up
your mom sorry to disappoint you I’m not a weeb besides he isn’t even from japan or something but keep working hard
there are always losers like them
Yummy Tummy
90%percent of tibetan are good looking.
How can i help this organization?
u da bro, bro
it's 2017!
D bro if you truly want to help the best place to start it to google the name of the organisation and research
also, the kids who were there were sent back home, where they can get no education, job, money or a skill for a living, for example boxing. It was a pretty big deal in china at the time it happened which was around September or so 2017
zanfightmanagement@gmail.com email me I'll put you in touch with their manager
They actually train in great conditions,wich makes me smile. Best of skill to all of them
NS Redpill what? Why?
AwesomeAlex apparently it was the training of children and the fact they made profit off of those kids through commercial fighting
Emma Walter wow!
Good news, kids can go back and train now. The government suspended the gym previously due to suspecting kids might be here against their wills and suspecting the gym is making profit off of them and all. Now it appears that the gym can be classified as charity organization, kids from poor background can make a living out of it.
For people who are concerned - 1. the club has reopened since the social media drama and with the government support it is now a fully qualified Sport School with better facilities. 2. I understand that some people's opinion on that everyone should go through the full education system, but for these kids it's not about being put into a box and get a degree to be a socially accepted white collar, MMA is a sport and for someone who truly wants to pursue a career in this, it is best for them to be trained professionally and forcus on their goals. Some people never even find their true goal in life or what they actually want to achieve so don't just look at them with pity. sorry for the rant.
He's fighting for One Championship now :) He's very talented!
He got dat immigrant mentality. He gonna make money
SpaceManDawn true
Joey diaz
"joey, he was born over here"
You can’t be an immigrant in your own country.
@@nutlover3609 he didn't say he was an immigrant tho
I just love Vice so much, the short documentaries are just so cinematic! And so interesting to watch! Thank you for creating these short movies for us all the time.
Btw it’s Pema Dorje, that’s the proper way you spell his name. They should have let him speak Tibetan when interviewing...anyway it’s pretty inspiring and Tibetanspirit never die
he was with his friends wasn't he...
Vice probably did not have a translator that speaks Tibetan with them...
pls, who knows what tibetan language/dialects he speaks....
Is Romanization a proper way to write the name???
why being an overreacting nationalist after all???
@@nehcooahnait7827 LMAO BRUH U WROTE A LOT MORE CHILL OUT
He did speak in Tibetan at 11:03 when he is talking on the phone but in his own regional dialect ( amdo ) . I guess we didn't notice at first because it's different from how we speak usually outside Tibet .
Nehco Oahnait who asked fr
That's his Tibetan name but his Chinese name is banma duoji
What an awesome thing to dedicate your life to. Props to Mr. Enbo and all the boys at the club. I hope they get the success they deserve.
this video is so professional, this is a great video!
This is by far one of the best VICE productions I've ever watched. Keep up the good work.
I have deep respect for the boys and people involved with them. I wish you all the very best in life, keep at it. Much love from New Zealand.
this lowkey feels like a movie goodjob VICE
This is one of my favorite Vice videos. It's a good way to keep them out of trouble.
This camera work and overall editing are insanely good, just like wow, it's really fantastic job
Love the editing & cinematography Vice, great work!
Word this was beautifully shot.
I wish we could hear more about them, I would be so happy. The latest news don’t say much but the fact they reopened in a mall. These guys’ stories were very touching, it would be so sad if they lost what they have been working hard on for years when the gym got closed. I truly hope they’re doing well.
Banma Duoji is signed to One FC. Biggest promotion after the UFC. He just had a fight with a 4 time Lumpinee champion not too long ago. He lost but the experience he’ll get I’m sure he’ll be in championship contention here soon.
fantastic documentary, love how vice still manages to produce some good stuff
Really really great work! Almost film quality. And bravo for honest and mutual documenting.
5:07 ^^
This video is really epic, thank you for it
I'm actually a Tibetan myself living in America and it's just so good to see our people being recognized for feats, surprisingly I'm surprised a Chinese country would let a Tibetan person fight considering how they have unfairly prejudiced us but in the end I'm proud
You are just prejudiced
You have no idea what you are talking about, there are plenty of Tibetans in Chinese MMA and I was trained by one when I was in Lanzhou, the notion that they can't fight there shows the extent of the BS of western media.
@@markemailonly3114 yo chill I said “surprised” I didn’t say it would never happen 💀
This was shot beautifully. So many longheld cinematic shots. Very well done!
This was such an interesting episode, I like how you guys included parts that showed a child like side to banma. Please do an update episode on these boys later on.
I heard of him from my parent and now this video .Proud to be tibetan .
Seriously, this production is awesome.
This video is amazing. I wish them the best from the bottom of my heart
Vice, thanks for sharing this film.
Makes me think about it how I am being provided for and looked over by my family. Life gave me everything and I got the feeling that I can't be grateful enough when I see people like this growing up without families or real parental love. I'm getting everything I want upfront while all of those people have to fight for and over it.
A great example at how Martial Arts can help kids succeed and in this example even more. It may sound corny, but it gives alot of them hope for a better future. I respect ppl like Mr. Enbo for everything he does for these kids. I wish i could make a difference like he has.
Beautiful editing. Love it😍
The filming is on point!
Actually his name spells Pema Dorjee in Tibetan (Banma Duoji). Great story, hope he keeps pushing and moving forward. Tashi Delek (form of greeting)
He is a cold dude and I think one day he will be a star
Wow what a beautiful documentary. It's a pity it does not last longer !
The Enbp MMA Clubs was closed due to some "Charity" reporting the kids were being abused, now they all go back to home and live in below standard life, which is sad.
god fuking damn. My feel good for humanity lasted only few scrolls lol
It’s not closed. The underage kids were sent back to their families with the government promising to get them school education. Everyone else stayed, including Banma. His last fight was on October 29th against Kobayashi Tomoya, Banma won. The club’s weibo page is still open and active as well.
Jun
"the government promising to get them school education" . Never trust CCP.
Wilfred Bao they reopened again dude
Hearing they reopened it? Would be sick to go train there they got a badass facility
He's cute😍
whenyougotmorethen11likesoninstagram Ikr
IKR
Someone give me any social media account of his!
ISNT ITTTTTT
I live under your bed you saying that automatically makes you lesser
This is one damn high quality video, with amazing people and an amazing topic. I know these guys are in the fight club because they are not well off, but I would love to do something like this.
This was awesome. 谢谢你. 🙏🏼
I'm choosing to not be cynical about this because this looks really nice. I love stories about folk with limited resources using what they have to help elevate others. This guy doesn't have to help these kids and these kids don't have to stay at the gym but they both choose to teach and train. We need more people like these folks in the world. They're the ones making the difference, not the billionaires and corporations. Wee definitely need to start looking towards taking care and helping each other anyway since we have no idea what's going to be happening over the next 4 years.
This reminds me of Fray Tormenta in mexico, he was a priest that didn´t have the means to feed his orphans so he went a became a pro-wrestler and became succesfull, after he became old he began training the orphans to be pro-wrestlers.
Yes this is the plot of nacho libre but it really happened in real life
👏👏👏 👊👊
Wish these guys success. I know it has to be a hard life.
This editing and camera skills are pleasing me, Awesome story
the editing on this vid is awesome. give the editor an award!
Hope to see him in UFC some day. 加油！
funkyplaya ufc fighters are far better trained and fighting because of compassion but this guy is fighting out of desperation, which = stress and pressure.
Thomas Mei
you haven't seen his fight he is very good at escaping arm locks head locks.
Thomas Mei fighting out of desperation is what it takes to win a match dumbass. And it doesn’t stress or pressure u, if you have a good mind and a powerful will, you can use that desperation as the source of power to win. That’s why street fights exists.
If Dana White want to sell tickets he is surely going but if Dana White didn't feel the "thing" from him. He won't be there
Desperation = panic = fear of failure which in the end creates a weaker mentality. For example Cus D amato created a monster of a champion Mike Tyson, he did this through a very complicated and strong mentality which broke his opponents before they even fought. Fighting is 90% mentality 10% physical- GSP. At the top level it is all about the mental capacity and strength, any drop of fear will create hesitation which means weakness. Also the UFC have far better training facilities. Street fights? The best martial artists/ fighters knows how to avoid fights out of the arena/sport.
Good anime 10/10
Pago Eagle Thank god it didn’t use CGI like Berserk 2016-2017z
Anime is Japanese.
I liked the manga better
Pago Eagle _ hola
SAMOAN WARRIOR there are Japanese anime and manga
damn, hope we will see him in UFC few years later. Great content and loved the color grading. Editing and music is top notch as always.
Need to make a series for this guy and all his counterparts
这集拍的真好
同意
主人公也很加分
藏族人鼻梁真高
他好帅啊
His Chinese accent sounds crazy good, it feels very comfortable listening to him
great production vice good work
Is there a link to see what tracks are used in the background? I really like the vibes that they give off.
This sounds like an anime.
And a very tragically realistic one at that.
Well, it's not that bad. At least these poor boys on the edge of being criminals or dying are taught the skill to feed themselves and their family in a much more proper way.
qwer zno That's a fair point.
Alan Munguia wrong.he's not a spoiled loud outcast 13 year old orphan who suck at everything but somehow managed to control his ultimate hidden power that could overpowered anyone and only he who could control it
chaos lord I was thinking more of Baki The Grappler level, but you can think Naruto if you want.
I just hope these guys can be happy down the line.
solid gold! ty vice for showing something cool for a change
wow that was great real eye opener. love and respect from Nz
Is he Tibetan? Banma Duoji sounds like Pema Dorjee. And his fellow Zhaxi sounds more like Tashi. These are Tibetan Names!
They are transcribed differently. Just like names are transcribed to latin alphabet is different.
@@DanielYi-cl8sc this is literally the third person I have seen within 1 mini who wanted to correct a 'wrong' romanization of names...
@@nehcooahnait7827 ROMANIZATION? GET THAT FAKE WORD OUTTA HERE BOI. THIS IS JUST AN ACCENT. FOH
If you think about it, Pad ma rdo rje doesn't exactly sound like the way it's pronounced either if you pronounce it literally letter by letter, is it butchering? Besides, there's so many different dialects of Tibetan.
So?
This is better than that lady pissing into a container...more videos like this please.
I cried and cheered.....this is such a beautiful documentary. a real creed no fake Hollywood BS
Great episode, great story and I really like the soundtrack. Which soundtrack is it?
Every city in the world needs this. ✊️
Ayeur Hueya Yeah the YMCA will teach you boxing, Muay Thai, jujitsu, wrestling, karate and judo right? No, it’s so you can swim around a pool with you and your little momo friends trying to get a workout in.
*Every village
#makeshinobigreatagain
Proud to be a tibetan
Great ...Thank you for your KIND AND GENERIOUS SUPPORT ...
beautifully filmed
They should make a movie out of this.
Watching this I really realized how lucky I am to be able to live the life I live. Its is amazing that at 18, coming from nothing he can make a name for himself. Amazing story.
I am happy some people are trying to help Tibetan kids. May he becomes big in the mma.
Great doco !
Seriously, people still want to politicize this video, don't they?
why does he have to speak chinese in tibet. Even if it isn't a country it's an autonomous region
Eos Prodromos The Club is in China not tibrt. The teenager in this video simply grew up in Tibet
Eos Prodromos, he's not in Tibet, he lives in Henan which is eastern China. Also, Tibet is in China and why shouldn't people in China speak Chinese?
Edit: One more point, Banma stated that he didn't know how to speak or read Chinese even when he was primary school age. This means that he learned Tibetan as a child and there was no problem just communicating and living in Tibet using Tibetan language. Isn't this evidence to show that Chinese government doesn't force people to stop speaking Tibetan/force people to speak Chinese? Tibetans are not as oppressed by the government as many sensational media makes them out to be. Ultimately, even if Chinese government requires Tibetans to learn Chinese I don't see how that is in any way a detriment to them, it will only benefit them in the long run.
Eos Prodromos
why do you speak English in the US Canada Australia and New Zealand?
elinal855 Thanks for your clearly thinking, as a Chinese. Most of the people only know China through the WESTERN media, and most of those reports are negative. And actually there're so many different dialects in our country, we couldn't even understand dialects from other region. So all educated people can speak Mandarin(Beijing dialect). But if they only live in their own region, they don't have to. That's also why we have huge cultural differences in one country, so foreigners think we are not one country.
As a Tibetan, he is the one of the best mma fighter as a very young age. However it is sad that the club is close now.
news from I year ago had confirmed its re-opening and government support...
and you are a comment from 6 months ago at the moment when I type this down...
He will be a champion and hopefully he will get the chance to represent Tibet because he’s a Tibetan, his family a Tibetan, his language Tibetan and he looks like a Tibetan.
Best thing to come out of Vice
Su Mudaerji, one of the kids from Enbo Club, just KOed Malcolm Gordan at UFC Las Vegas.
Yep and he just took a good win yesterday
4:39 "Who that nigguh" lmao
Great going Dorjee 👏🏼love from India.
Truly inspiring.
Anyone knows the drama or movie he'll be on?
BRO THIS KID JUST WAS ON ONE CHAMPIONSHIP. HE MADE IT
Beautiful video
when was the last time vice uploaded something this good.? bring back the old vice
I need his jacket. Anyone know where I can get something similar?
Honestly, they have the looks and story for this to be a movie.
This was shot really well. Evoked a lot of emotion and critical thinking
This is better than a movie!