Black Belt Elvis
Ahhh…who could forget Karate Elvis? You have to appreciate his guts when he appeared in that robe for the Houston Astrodome Press Conference in 1970. But Elvis didn’t show off his outfit without the skills to back it up.
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He discovered karate when he was in the army and, after a strenuous six weeklong training period, earned his first-degree black belt. He kept practicing all through the ‘60s and earned his seventh-degree black belt by 1972. Elvis had so many facets to him, and Karate Elvis has got to be one of his best.