I et interview med den hårdtsparkende filmstjerne og wushu-es Jet Li, oversat af MMO Culture, forsvarer han esport og sammenligner det med fysisk idræt. Desuden ser han sig selv som gamer.
Jet Li siger blandt andet: "If poker card games and chess both have the players sitting down and are considered sports, why not virtual gaming as well?"
"There are two kinds of sports - one physical and one mental. There is no good reason to debunk virtual gaming as a sport, and I believe the participants of such virtual PvP events have the same mentality as physical athletes", siger han.
Angående sin egen spilinteresse siger Li: "When I was 20 years old, while filming my second movie, there was a cameraman with his own computer and I got in touch with this game, where I hit things in the sky. That was back then when I was young, I played whenever I wasn't filming."
Og Jet Li tror benhårdt på den kinesiske spilbranche, og afslører at han også selv har tanker om at lave spil: "I wanted to understand more, and even thought of making a game to spread Chinese culture globally."
"In five to ten years time, I hope to see China games being the market leader in the industry", afslutter Li.