Jim Kelly
James Milton Kelly
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Emerging from a Kentucky high-school athlete who turned to Shorin-ryu karate under Sin Kwang Thé and later trained in Okinawan styles with Parker Shelton, Nate Patton and Gordon Doversola, Kelly quickly became one of the most decorated karate champions of the early 1970s, capturing the world middleweight title at the 1971 Long Beach International Karate Championships and opening a studio that attr…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
