cis birth_place import position birth_date article_title name
toronto trinidad no linebacker 24 august 1958 joel john
 joel john
joel john

joel john -lrb- born august -rrb- is a martial artist and a former canadian league football player .
john played linebacker for the oakville longhorns and jr. .
toronto argonauts and had tryouts with toronto argonauts .
john is also a fifth-degree black belt in karate/kung-fu/kenpo and was a member of the canadian karate kung-fu association -lrb- ckka -rrb- -lsb- http://www.ckka.net/] headed by master dave chong .
in july 1989 the canadian national team , consisting of andra sack , john palitti , alvin brown , heather alonzo , tony consiglio , kees kukins , don james -lrb- four times world tae kwon do champion -rrb- and several others , entered the world games held in karlsruhe , germany .
john won the european heavyweight championships and helped the canadian team to win the overall championships in the netherlands the next weekend .
john was also a two-time canadian heavyweight karate champion -lrb- 1987 and 1988 -rrb- also reaching a rank of number two overall rated fighter in canada for the year 1985 as ranked by `` karate illustrated '' magazine .
john can be seen with his old karate nemesis billy blanks in the movies `` talon of the eagle '' and `` tc 2000 '' .
