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Originally Posted by omgitsrick
Wow you are so stupid honestly. His one post had more sense and truth in it than all of yours combined. You're just nutriding Bruce and you have weak arguments to back it up. Bruce Lee was never a fighter, he was an actor who just happened to be good at Martial Arts, furthermore I could argue his art wasn't even effective and up to par with today's standards. Sure he may have been ahead of the curb in his time, but any real fighter today would have beat Bruce in his prime. Alot of people are in denial over Bruce because he was their childhood hero and such, you people need to grow up and accept the truth. This is an MMA forum so don't bring that garbage in here.
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Bruce Lee was a Martial Artist who happened to become an actor who succeeded at representing Martial Arts in cinema. He made a tremendous impact on Martial Arts in popular culture and combat philosophy (he was also a philosophy major) through his Jeet Kune Do teachings.
I think there are two extremes in this discussions.
1. People who think Bruce Lee was the God of War and could beat any Professional Fighter.
2. People who think that because he didn't compete in a commercialized sport and didn't live to benefit from the MMA revolution that any Pro fighter can beat him.
Bruce Lee was a well conditioned Martial Artist who incorporated any useful technique, from any art and style, into his repertoire and tested his skills in sparring and challenge matches against world reknowned Martial Artists. He knew how to strike and grapple. He knew the strengths and weaknesses of individual arts. He cross-trained. He was incredibly strong for his size.
I think that if you transported a prime Bruce Lee into 2008, introduced him to MMA, picked any opponent for him to fight and allowed him to study video of his opponent and train in an MMA gym for the normal period of time it takes to prepare for a single fight he would give any MMA fighter a good fight regardless of status or weight class. He would have trouble with the size of larger opponents, the better grapplers and strikers but he had an understanding of combat well beyond his years that is far more advanced than the average MMA fighter who walks into a mediocre MMA gym and trains from scratch.
He wasn't invincible and we'll never know how well he could have done in a real fight but the idea that Bruce Lee would get beat by any chubby or scrawny Can who shaves his head, gets some tattoos, trains in Muay Thai and Jiu-Jitsu for a couple months and gets their ass kicked in a few matches could beat a serious Martial Artist with a universal skillset is a joke. That isn't nuthugging that's being realistic vs. being blinded by elitism.
