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The Francombat Interview with Franco Richard
A brief look at our founder’s life and the passion for combat that fueled it. It all started with a dream, of course. It was 1996, a teenage Franco Richard had just suffered his first lost on the Lei Tai. Dejected, the young Richard hid in his parents’ Quebec home and vowed to remake himself.