What are the overviews of the real IP Man in history?

Ip Man's Wing Chun Kung Fu is mainly reflected in the expression of Wing Chun theory and personal moral cultivation. Ip Man devoted his life to China Wushu. He is a great practitioner and a respected elder. But any great man has his insurmountable time and space limitations, and Ip Man is no exception. Bruce Lee, who once learned Wing Chun from Ip Man, is different. Bruce Lee has studied many kinds of martial arts (boxing, Bashu, Jiu Jitsu, Karate and Taekwondo), which is more important than actual combat. He successfully introduced China Kung Fu to the world through the screen, made every effort to maintain the positive image of China people, and promoted the connotation of Kung Fu to the height of impacting the mainstream western culture. Bruce Lee single-handedly forced the world to re-examine people who have always been regarded as the sick man of East Asia, so Bruce Lee's greatness is unparalleled so far. Shine on you is better than Blue, and Ip Man is great because he taught Bruce Lee, a world-famous disciple. Since then, Kung Fu, a term that only China can own, has suddenly appeared in western dictionaries. Ip Man is Bruce Lee's master. He implanted China elements into the deepest part of Bruce Lee's heart!

Ip Man has no video recording, and there is no public record of actual combat. He can only infer a thing or two from some scattered memories of others.

1. Ip Man once defeated Huang Chunliang and later became a disciple of IP Man. Huang Chunliang likes to learn from actual combat, that is, "talking about hands". It is said that he was very famous before he met IP Man, and after worshipping IP Man, he became the title of "King of Talking Hands". At that time, Huang Chunliang was rarely defeated by various factions, and he was also the actual master of Bruce Lee (according to Zhang Zhuoqing, a disciple of Ip Man).

2. IP Man served as the captain of criminal investigation in the police station and had a record of subduing gangsters with his bare hands.

3. During his stay in Foshan, IP Man once had an open contest with Shaanxi martial artist Jin Shanmao and won, which is also the prototype of Fan Shaohuang's role of Jin Shanmao in IP Man 1. It is said that he won easily.

To sum up, if the above records are true, IP Man's fighting capacity is relatively good among traditional martial artists, and it should be easy to beat ordinary people who have not practiced in reality.

However, compared with modern fighters, IP Man, as a traditional martial artist, has its limitations, and his strength is far behind that of professional modern fighters. Beating the world champion and karate champion like in the movie is just a story that the movie will realize.