Fred Cheng Learned Martial Arts to Protect Against Bullies
Aside from singing and acting, Fred Cheng (鄭俊弘) is also highly skilled in martial arts. After Fred trained and learned a variety of martial arts styles in the last 20 years, one of his dreams is to become a boxing king.
Born in Canada, Fred initially took up boxing as self-defense so he could protect himself, but ended up loving it as time passed. “Martial arts was for self-defense because foreigners always bullied the Chinese. I was beat up by my classmates every day at school. My uncle gave me two options – one was to bring a hockey stick to school all the time, and the other was to learn kung fu to protect myself. In the end, I chose the latter option.”
Although Fred injured himself frequently in the beginning, and obtained a lot of broken bones along the way, he continued to try out various martial arts forms. He even ended up learning Thai-boxing. Although Fred has a busy work schedule, he still goes to the boxing studio once a week.
Dreams Come True
While Fred has yet to attain his goal of becoming a boxing king, his career landed in the fast track after winning last year’s singing competition, The Voice: Stars’ Legend <星夢傳奇>. Since he debuted in TVB, he has appeared in 70 dramas, in which his early roles were mainly extras. His name was virtually unknown to the public but after a decade of dedication, Fred finally gained recognition through his voice.
Still amazed at his accomplishments in the last year, Fred humbly expressed, “Releasing an album, holding a concert – I think I’ve gotten too much already. I don’t want to wish for anything else and I hope to give it my best with what I have in front of me. That way, I can uphold my promise to my family, friends, the company, and my fans. In terms of the future, just wait until I can finally become a boxing king!”
Source: Ming Pao
This article is written by Su for JayneStars.com.
Yes, Fred is a multi-talented artiste; so glad he is slowly achieving his dreams 🙂
Agree, go Freddie!
yeah! agree!
So happy for Fred 🙂
Yes 🙂
He can dance too, watch his TVB J2 music video.
Yes, he’s good!!
Yes, love it 🙂
Looking at his pose, he should just stick to singing, pretty please.
what is wrong with the pose? it’s a martial arts pose.
I can pose like that too, but I don’t know kungfu. Get what I mean?
No it’s not..
That is a waiter’s pose
he wasn’t expecting to pose, he was there to perform thus wearing the wrong pants, the reporters just wanted a couple pictures.
If he closes his legs that’s one pose we do everyday. 😀 🙁 LOL!
yeah, agree with you, not nice to look at.
i think it’s his pants. they are too small for kungfu
He looks good in whatever pose 🙂
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That is same pose that Fred has, great kunfu skill!
Those who do not know martial arts will say his pose it weird or funny.
Actually, that is a very confident and correct kung fu stance. Don’t simply comment if you don’t know about the subject matter.
Agree!
Yes 🙂
There was a Kung-fu demo that he did one year for the anniversary ceremony…he definitely knows Kung fu.
LOL!
lol x 2
Yeah, keep fighting Fred. We will keep on supporting you.
Cheng sifu.
Wow….his life suddenly changed and become popular now!
Still remember his “small potatoe” acting role in the dramas.
Yes, his new album is selling well.
“…foreigners always bullied the Chinese…”
I thought Canadians were nice.
Some foreigners are not nice due to the fact low level of tolerance against minorities living in their country. Racism is still alive.
Where I live in Canada the foreigners are much nicer than Asian people, especially the ones from my high school. Asian people from my school were all about dramas and backstabbing. The foreigners were obnoxious and immature, but they were A LOT nicer for some reason.
“Asian people from my school were all about dramas and backstabbing.”
Just distance yourself from those types, who may just be jealous
害人最終會害到自己
Evil do-ers will eventually harm unto themselves
Hear no evil, speak no evil
Yes Canadians are generally nice but it’s only in the last decade or two that political correctness, maybe in North America as a whole, that racism is shamed upon. Back when Fred would have been in elementary school there were very few asians. If you weren’t in Vancouver proper there’d be even less. I’m a few years younger than him and the situation was very similar.
tvb should give him a lead role in a marial art drama then,maybe he will become a new donnie yen.i already see him practicing martial arts moves with his guitar.
wow! interesting! i never knew that he knows “kung fu”!!!!!!~~~~ keep working hard!!~~~ i would always support you!!~~ 🙂 (all the way from Australia)!!!~~
Based on the pose above, the bullies should have nothing to be afraid of. LOL!!
I have seen Fred doing Kung Fung on TV and during other occasions, he definitely has very strong Kung Fu skills. Keep fighting!
that’s the opposite of NYC where we were forced to deprive ourselves of that part of Chinese culture because triad was connected to the Chinatown martial arts schools and to the lion dances during Chinese New Year.
During new order’s regime, indonesian chinese weren’t allowed to speak mandarin/chinese dialect, use chinese name, celebrate lunar new year and everything that has to do with Chinese culture or country.
so is triad linked to anti Chinese policies worldwide because triad choose Japanese coprosperity over their own ancestry?
NYTimes just reported that Japanese strengthened triad in Hong Kong so what did they do in ASEAN? Infernal Affairs show close relationship between triad and Thai criminals and Swordsman 2 shows Yunnan collaboration with Japanese.
http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health/article/1628294/martial-arts-fitness-craze-gives-muay-thai-leg-hong-kong
I am most troubled by this line ““Martial arts was for self-defense because foreigners always bullied the Chinese.” … Heck, being different is a cause for bullied. You get bullied in HK, or China if you look different from all Chinese classmates, even if you yourself is Chinese. The same goes everywhere, a white kid in all Chinese school will bet bullied, and the same for Chinese kids in an all White school. Generation and putting everyone in the same pot is so irresponsible for a public figure. He could have said ‘“Martial arts was for self-defense because i was bullied as a child”. Somehow, i hate it people group things in to make it seems to terrible, such terrible choice of words.
Excellent post… couldn’t have said it better myself.
It’s worse when fellow Chinese bully you because their own social weakness makes them compassion free and ruthless. It’s like Jews put in charge of other Jews in concentration camps who were sadistic to show the world that they are not at ally sympathetic to their own kind to make themselves feel stronger.
But also because Chinese culture has none of the bully diminishment of Western Judeo Christrian culture.
I agree with you! I was bullied by Blacks, Latinos, Asians and even Eastern Europeans who could barely speak English themselves. Anybody can be bullies, not just “foreigners”.
Inspirational story about Fred 🙂
Indeed!
Yes, Fred keep fighting!
Go Freddie go!
This id an old picture of Fred taken mid of 2013 when he came into the limelight after his debut on VOS.
Looks may change, but Fred is still the humble guy who loves sharing his love for music with fans.
郑师傅，add oil !!
Hahaha, well said 🙂