Karateka Richard is respected as one of the best forms competitors on the open circuit in North America. His captured a softstyle weapons world title and took second place at the prestigous WAKO world championships in softstyle kata in 1991 in London, UK, by a narrow margin only to Benjamin Jugwels. Richard Branden died in 2013 after battling pancreatic cancer.

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