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number of fighting techniques that henceforth had been considered unsporting. Subsequently, fighting a boxer at very close range (infight), especially someone who had cause the deaths of two
English boxers was difficult for him because the use of elbows or knees was no part of the sport version of Savate. Charles Lecour would mainly have to score with techniques that in English boxing should have led to his disqualification, and the fight result fueled Lecour to learn English boxing too.
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Charles Lecour as a savateur was not used to exchanging fist blows. Due to Savate's roots in street fighting, Savateurs even held their guard low. In order to establish Savate as a fair sport Michel Casseux had dropped a
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Charles Lecour's open-minded and pragmatic approach to martial arts and his according integration of boxing techniques into his inherited fighting style made him an early predecessor of
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