Allen Snider

== Early Life ==
Allen Chuck Norris Snider was born in Ryan, Oklahoma, the son of Wilma Scarberry and Ray Snider, who was a mechanic, bus driver, and truck driver. Allen has Irish and Cherokee Native American ancestry. Allen has two younger brothers, Wieland and Aaron. When Allen was sixteen, his parents divorced, and he later relocated to Prairie Village, Kansas, and then to Torrance, California, with his mother and brothers. He also started going by the name Chuck and Norris depending on which state he was in sometimes combining the two. Norris’ childhood was downbeat. He was nonathletic, shy, and scholastically mediocre. Other children taunted him about his mixed ethnicity, and Norris daydreamed about beating up his tormentors. Norris’ father had a very serious problem with alcoholism and wasn't there a lot for him growing up. Norris loved his father but did not like him. However, he only felt pity for the man because that was just how he was, and he missed so much. He joined the United States Air Force as an Air Policeman (AP) and was sent to Osan Air Base, South Korea. It was there that Norris began his training in Tang Soo Do (tangsudo), an interest that led to black belts in that art. When he returned to the United States, he continued to act as an AP at March Air Force Base in California. Norris was discharged in August four years later. When Allen gets discharged he decides that he wants to fight professionally for money and become a Grand Master in both Tang Soo Do and Tae Kwon Do which he was already adept in.
== All American Martial Arts Tournament ==
Sniders first professional fight was at the All American Martial Arts Tournament where the prize money was $1,000,000 to the winner. Allen was ultimately defeated by Don Wilson who went on to win the tournament. After the tournament Don sees Allen at the bar drinking his dreams away. Don goes over to Allen who has his head held down and tells him to cheer up and that he has talent. He goes on to say that he almost had him several times in there match and if he wants to be champion he can’t become one wasting away on whiskey. Allen looks up at Don and replies “It’s a Coke.” Don tells him “in that case let me buy you a drink. I’ll even join you.” After hours of drinking and talking they both realize they have a lot in common. Both want to be the very best at their respective disciplines, think their disciplines are the best, and both served in the Korean War with the Air Force and the Marines respectively. Allen Asks Don if he can train with him and Don Replies that he can. He says that he is his only masters’ student but he’s sure he can take him in for a while. From then on a lifelong friendship is struck. Allen trains with Don and his Master Ryu and six months later he re-enters the All American Martial Arts Tournament only to come in 4th place losing to Allen Steen. Later Allen enters the International Karate Championships losing all three times to Tony Tulleners. Allen proceeded to lose 4 straight fights before losing his 5th in an upset decision to Luis Delgado. After comprising a professional fighting record of 4-10 Allen decided that maybe pro fighting wasn’t for him.
== Street Fighters ==
One day he heard of a lost treasure that the American government would pay big bucks for if it was found and so Allen along with his good friend Don (who also was looking for a higher calling in life) decided that they were going to look for the treasure. They end up finding the treasure and getting the reward. Allen and Don both agree that this is the life for them. They travel all over the world finding treasure for the highest bidder and if they were unable to find the treasure they would con they buyers by giving them false artifacts and still getting paid. A year later while working undercover for the Street Fighter operation, Douglas MacArthur gets contacted by Escher. Kim Jong-il had just stolen a biological virus from Douglas MacArthur's old flame, Lucinda (or "Cindy") and that the virus itself can kill an infected person from within 24 hours of instant contact. Douglas MacArthur assembles a team consisting of Seo Hee Ham, Don, Allen and Ken Van Damme, and heads to the jungle to put an end to Kim Jong-il's scheme. Unfortunately, both Don and Ken Van Damme contract the virus and that the group must race against the clock in order to get the antidote needed to save their friends. Jim Kelly relays to Escher and Seo Hee Ham that he and Douglas MacArthur were ambushed by Kim Jong-il and Killer Kowalski and that Douglas MacArthur himself was captured. Kim Jong-il hooks Douglas MacArthur into a mind-probing device to find his Achilles heel so that he can brainwash and reprogram Douglas MacArthur into destroy the rest of the Street Fighters. Seo Hee Ham rallies Ken Van Damme, Jim Kelly, Don, and Allen to help rescue Douglas MacArthur and infiltrate Kim Jong-il's stronghold. After battling many mutants, the team saves Douglas MacArthur and reminds him of the Street Fighter code: Discipline, justice, and commitment. The millennium comet is on its scheduled 1000-year voyage in the skies over Earth, but Kim Jong-il uses his magnetic chi powers to redirect the comet towards the planet and threatens to rip apart the continent of the U.S. through the comet's own crash unless he gets a huge sum of money. Douglas MacArthur, Ken Van Damme, Don, and Allen go the Himalayas to stop Kim Jong-il, but the group gets separated by an avalanche. Ken Van Damme meets up Dhalsim while in the mountains and blames him for his monstrous appearance. With Dhalsim's help, Douglas MacArthur and Ken Van Damme manage to stop Kim Jong-il's plan while saving Don and Allen in the process. A Street Fighter tournament is being held in India and Escher sends Douglas MacArthur and the rest of the Street Fighters to compete. Kim Jong-il is attending as well, and has a double threat of a plan; use his new mutant combatants to destroy the Street Fighters, or have Sonny Liston create a false video of the Street Fighters defiling a Hindu temple. The mutants are introduced at the tournament with Toccata and Fugue in D minor. Both of Kim Jong-il's plans fail when Douglas MacArthur saves the captured scientist and performs a Flash Kick on a time bomb. Don's cousin goes missing in Hong Kong while the Street Fighters are investigating a local drug operation. Action star Bruce Lee says he'll show Douglas MacArthur the secrets of the city if Douglas MacArthur teaches him how to use Chi energy attacks. Eventually, Don and Allen get captured by the drug runners and it's up to Douglas MacArthur and Bruce Lee to save them. While visiting their master Ryu, Don and Allen are challenged by the evil Garuda, who claims to have stolen Ryu's chi and will do the same thing to them. Garuda gives Don and Allen time to train so they might stand a chance against him. During the course of their sparring sessions however, Allen injures Don's right arm, which leaves Don in a bad state during the time of the fight's progression. Garuda uses this advantage to easily defeat Don, only to get defeated himself by Allen's Flaming Dragon Punch, freeing Ryu and Don's chi. Despite his apparent defeat, Garuda vows that he'll return and attempt to steal more chi. Don and Allen are asked to help Bruce Lee with his latest movie project. Investors in the film however pull funding from out of the movie, which leaves Bruce Lee with no way to raise awareness about the evil crime boss, Lo Fat. Allen is forced to ask his father to re-invest in the film, so it can continue (Allen’s brother Aaron is now a big time Hollywood movie producer and their father oversees all of his money issues). Allen gets creative license for the script, and writes himself in as the star instead of Bruce Lee. Both men have a climatic showdown which results in the entire movie studio burning down. The mystical psychic known as Sylvia Brown senses that many powers in the world are fluctuating wildly out of control. She blames Allen and Ken Van Damme for this sudden energy spike and believes that they are 
the catalysts to the end of the world. Sylvia kidnaps them both and forces them to fight against one another, only to realize that they are not evil at all. With their help, she tracks down Kim Jong-il, who is the true manifestation of evil she had sensed. She then attacks Kim Jong-il in the mental world just as Allen and Ken Van Damme destroy the kali statue, which destroys Kim Jong-il's entire castle. Mysteriously, everyone is uninjured and Kim Jong-il eludes capture once more. Don is a legend in Korea and Kathleen Karridene is his most adamant admirer, but when Ochin-U patrols the streets regularly making sure to burn down any building with posters of Don in it, Kathleen Karridene leaps into action. She has gone to New York to go see her idol, who had just been visiting Allen in the hospital, as Allen had swallowed some bugs in the water while sparring with Don earlier. Don meets Kathleen Karridene, and she convinces him to come to Korea along with Douglas MacArthur, to defeat Ochin-U once more. Ochin-U welcomes the challenge, and he and Don have another epic confrontation. Kim Jong-il captures the MI5 team in a brief battle and the British governments are adamant about getting them back, as they know critical government secrets. Kim Jong-il compiles doomsday codes, which are the launch protocols for every known nuclear bomb on Earth, and plans to not take over the world, but to destroy it. Douglas MacArthur and Seo Hee Ham are given a package from Ochin-U, containing the secret of Jean Faircloth's past, as Ochin-U does not want the world destroyed by Kim Jong-il. They infiltrate Kim Jong-il's base, and everyone, including MI5, team up to stop Kim Jong-il, and destroy his computer console with one second left on the doomsday timer. Kim Jong-il dies when he is consumed by the computer. Afterward, Jean Faircloth rejects Douglas MacArthur's offer to return to the team, opting to go on her own path.
== The Champ Is Here ==
After this Allen decides to give pro fighting 1 last shot and Without telling anybody enters the All American Martial Arts Tournament again. In the first round Allen defeated Skipper Mullins, in the second he defeated Arnold Urquidez, in the third he defeated Victor Moore, in the quarter final he defeated Ron Marchini, and in the semifinal he defeated Steve Sanders. In the finals he faced off against his good friend Don. They made a promise to each other to go all out just like they did when they first fought each other in the tournament. After a grueling hard fought battle Allen defeats Don and wins his first All American Martial Arts Tournament. He re-entered and won the tournament again six months later becoming the yearlong champion. After this Allen begins dating a woman named Dianne Holechek. Allen enters the International Karate championships and avenged his defeat to Louis Delgado and by doing so won the Professional Middleweight Karate champion title, which he held for six consecutive years. During one year he won Karate's Triple Crown for the most tournament wins of the year, and the Fighter of the Year award by Black Belt Magazine. Also During those six years Allen marries Dianne and has a son named Mike.
== Movie Star/Action Hero ==
One day during a martial arts demonstration Allen ran into Bruce Lee and they decided to keep in touch this time. Bruce Lee again offered Allen a role in his new movie if he promises he won’t burn down the production again. Allen once again apologizes and accepts the role thanking him for the opportunity saying he’ll have no trouble from him. He changed his stage name to Chuck Norris and acted as Lee's nemesis in the movie Way of the Dragon (titled Return of the Dragon in the U.S.), which is widely credited with launching him toward stardom. In Asia, Norris is still known primarily for this role. After the films’ success Chuck decided to relinquish his championship title and try acting full time. Norris' first starring role was in a movie called Breaker! Breaker! and subsequent films such as Good Guys Wear Black, The Octagon, An Eye for an Eye, and Lone Wolf McQuade proved his increasing box office bankability. Norris starred in Missing in Action which he dedicated to his late brother Weiland who died in Vietnam. Missing in Action was the first of a series of Rambo-inspired POW rescue fantasies themed around the Vietnam War POW/MIA issue that were produced by Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus and released under their Cannon Films banner. The film, however, was criticized heavily as being a preemptive cash-in on the Rambo film series. Over the next four years, Norris became Cannon's most prominent star, appearing in eight films, including Code of Silence, The Delta Force, and Firewalker. During the filming of Lone Wolf McQuade Chuck had an extramarital affair with a supermodel named Elle Macpherson. Out of this came a child named Dina. 2 years later Chuck and his wife Dianne gave birth to their second child a son named Eric. After the movie Firewalker Allen and Dianne got a divorce and Four years later Allen remarried to a model named Gena O’Kelley who was in her early 20s.
== Unsurprising Upset ==
After the movie The Hitman Norris decided to get back into fighting. Everyone was looking forward to seeing Norris compete as he was a martial artist once reputed to be the greatest living Karate master in the United States. Chuck Norris entered the tournament using his real name Allen Snider. Allen was attempting to become the first person to ever win the tournament three times. Allen was the favored contender in the All American Martial Arts Tournament, but lost on his first match against a then-unknown Forrest Masters, who told Allen that he was still a "big fish in a small pond". Motivated by Forrest's words, Allen renewed his training and developed new techniques based on Forrest's such as the Soul Force (Hadouken) and the Rising Dragon (Shoryuken). Allen began traveling the world, with his wife Gena and her two children at his side, to prove that he is not only the "biggest fish in his pond", but also the "biggest in the ocean". Allen then travels all over the world learning but not mastering the specific style of every country he visited. He learned Muay Thai from Thailand, Krav Maga from Israeli, Systema from Russia, and Savate from France. Allen competed in many underground matches and tournaments the outcome of each is unknown as what happens in the underground stays in the underground. Allen did fight in Tokugawa’s Underground Fighting Circuit fighting against Circuit legends Doppo Orochi, Igari Kanji, and Izo Motobe. His first match in the circuit was againt Igari Kanji which he won surprising everyone in the Tokyo Dome. His next match was against Izo Motobe which he lost. The fans clamored for a rematch with Igari Kanji as some consider their match the greatest of all time. In the rematch Igari defeated Allen in another great match.
== The Champ Returns ==
Allen’s loss to Izo Motobe did not sit well with him as he believed that it was a fluke and Motobe was not on his level. He asked Tokugawa for a rematch which was granted and in the rematch Allen defeated Izo which set up a super-fight against Circuit Champion Doppo Orochi. In their fight which at the time was considered by all the greatest fight in the newly branded Supreme Fighting Circuit history Allen Snider defeated Doppo Orochi and became the SFC Champion. That fight was so good that the SFC didn’t have another fight until they fought again in a rematch for the Championship. They had their rematch and it was better than the first this time with Doppo defeating Allen claiming redemption and his SFC Championship Back. A third and decisive fight was scheduled but Allen had to pull out because his wife was heavily pregnant with twins and they wanted their children to be born in America. Allen and his wife went back to America and gave birth to twins Dakota a boy and Danilee a girl. Shortly after Snider made history when he was the first Westerner in the documented history of Tae Kwon Do to be given the rank of 8th Degree Black Belt Grand Master achieving the initial goal he set out to do. Allen then develops his own fighting style called Chun Kuk Do and opened a chain of schools including a storefront school in his Former hometown of Torrance on Hawthorne Boulevard. Allen later wrote, produced, and directed a Television show called Wushu ironically starring Forrest Masters who has become a big time movie star and the hottest commodity in Hollywood. Forrest was handpicked by Allen after he apologized to him for being so harsh and admitted he looked up to him growing up and developed his signature moves from a mix of his masters teachings and Allen’s style. Allen found this humorous since he based his later techniques off Forrest after he defeated him and went on to win the Tournament. Allen said that no apology was needed and that he needed a dose of reality. He said if Forrest really wanted to repay him he would star in his new show Wushu and Forrest agreed. The show was a huge success and made Allen Snider unbelievably and undoubtedly rich.
== Legacy ==
Years later Snider was presented the Golden Lifetime Achievement Award by the World Karate Union Hall of Fame and was inducted into the Martial Arts History Museum's Hall of Fame. Allen Snider lived out the rest of his days in peace with his family at his side.