Bill "SUPERFOOT" Wallace
Bio

Bill Wallace retires as the undefeated Professional Karate Association middleweight champion after defeating Bob Biggs in a 12-round bout in June, 1980. The victory, Wallace's 23rd straight, signaled the end to an illustrious 15-year career in tournament and full-contact fighting.

Known to most fans simply as "Superfoot," symbolic of his dynamic left leg, which has been clocked at an excess of 60 mph, Wallace left a string of battered and bruised bodies along the karate trail by showing a kick could be the most powerful weapon in karate. He prided himself on using his foot as others would their hands, faking opponents with two or three kicks in rapid succession only to set up the real technique. His power was amazing, his precision astounding.

Even before entering the full-contact ring in 1974, Wallace was rated among the best point fighters in America for three straight years. He has won virtually every major point-fighting title's at least once and boasts of multiple championships in the U.S. Championships (3 times), USKA Grand Nationals (3 times) and Top Ten Nationals (2 times).

In 1973, Wallace sustained a leg injury many thought this would be the end of his career. However, one of Wallace's most famous friend, the late Elvis Presley, flew in a Los Angeles acupuncturist to treat the karate champion at Grac- eland Manor. Wallace, fully recovered from the injury, and became the PKA middleweight champion a year later with a second-round knockout of Bernd Grothe.

A former karate, judo, wrestling and weightlifting instructor at Memphis State University, Wallace continues to be one of the most popular figures in the martial arts seminar circuit.

He also has made a big impact in the film industry. He starred with Chuck Norris in a A Force of One and later had a small role in Neighbors, with John Belushi, whom Wallace acted as bodyguard and personal trainees until the actor's death many years ago.

In a magazine interview after his retirement, Wallace said he would not return to competition karate unless the sport needed one of his patented kicks in the backside. "The only reason I would come back is if the sport starts getting sloppy. If that happens, I'll come back and try to clean it up."

And you know he would.