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Le Banner is actually quite known outside of combat sport circles. He's been in movies and is quite often on famous panel tv shows and even game shows like Fort Bayard. He's a bit of a combat sport icon and a meme of a big muscly brute in France (even though he's actually a nice guy and quite intelligent).I dont necessarily disagree but today KB isn't mainsteam in France and the Gen Z don't know who Geronimo is. KB aren't mainstream anymore here. They're well known in combat sport circles tho
*Edit* this guy just typed the same thing first with even more details:
Le Banner totally went the equivalent of "mainstream" when he was in his prime, and kept getting invited everywhere even after his prime was over
He had a pretty big talking role in that movie that invited a bunch of influences, "Asterix 3" with Alain Delon & Gerard Depardieu (what a piece of shit movie that was, total flop despite the enormous promo, but the second one of the trilogy was an gigantic cultural hit so they thought this one was going to shit gold too... )
Le Banner was invited to every shitty show with Cauet or Ruquier or any of these bootlickers
Teenagers ate that shit up instead of tiktok
There were a bunch of years in which you could stop any dude in the street to name a French kickboxer, and even total noobs at least knew Le Banner
He's the Teddy Riner/David Douillet of kickboxing
Sure he never went Conor famous, nobody becomes Conor famous
Francis Ngannou also started his career and had half of his UFC fights while he was training in France (no need to look it up)
We half-reclame him