People say Bruce Lee is just an actor, but let's be real

[Deuterion]

I think he could compete on a pro level. Just saying there guarantee he'd be anything but a journeyman level pro fighter. He'd at least be better than Kimbo Slice is all i would bet with confidence. But both him and Kimbo would give a regular person that work with relative ease.
Elite takes on a different meaning at the highest level. Bryan Scalabrine is an elite bball player and destroy regular people with ease. for example. top 10% in the world. Still far from Lebron

Any low level ufc fighter would knock bruce lee out, golden glove boxer would have him sleep

Of course he couldn’t compete today because the competition had 60+ years to improve upon the style Bruce Lee “kicked off” in 1965. That’s like saying Nas is better than Rakim when Rakim’s flow made an entire lane for an MC like Nas.

 

[EndGame]

He's lucky as hell he lived in a different time. Chines martials arts is bullshyt.







Notice how the Chinese martial arts masters drop their discipline and start brawling when they are in actual fights? Frauds.

 

[EndGame]

Bruce Lee couldn't fight.

 

[Deuterion]

He's lucky as hell he lived in a different time. Chines martials arts are bullshyt.







Notice how the Chinese martial arts masters drop their discipline and start brawling when they are in actual fights? Frauds.

Bruce Lee called this out in the 60’s which is why the Chinese wanted him dead. He disgraced essentially the entirety of Chinese Martial Arts when he prioritized practicality over styles. You need to read up on Bruce Lee...homeboy was killed because the Chinese don’t fukk around with people disgracing their culture. The dude in the first video was on the run for his life after he beat up those old Chinese guys...the Chinese gov’t wanted his ass out the paint.

After defeating 17 such people, Xu has been ostracized, broken down, and bullied by the Chinese government and the martial arts community. Instead of admitting that they are using flawed combat systems, they are doubling down. He is banned from using public transportation, flying, trains, his gym, and all social media. He’s been doxxed and his family faces death threats.

Xu Xiaodong Exposes Fake Martial Arts and Loses Everything - Bad Ideas - Human Echoes

 

[Dro_Pesci]

I don’t know if you’ve heard but Bruce Lee died at 32 and thus wasn’t able to formalize Jeet Kune Do as a system. He spoke about it very philosophically and didn’t document it so when he died his students had to rely on interpretation when it came to instruction. This created splinters in Jeet Kune Do teaching...there was the Inonsanto method and many others. I’m sure if Bruce Lee was alive long enough he would have been able to make it into an actual formal and documented fighting style with consistent techniques and practices.



There is no direct link between Bruce Lee and the UFC but Bruce Lee had a huge impact on shifting the culture of Martial Arts and making way for what we now call Mixed Martial Arts. The Gracie’s have a direct link to UFC but even that didn’t start off as MMA. It started off as Style vs. Style and then morphed into what Bruce Lee’s philosophy was which was blending everything together...using what works and discarding the rest.

Dana White

“The Gracies were the founding fathers of the actual UFC, but I think the sport of Mixed Martial Arts was started by Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee’s movies, Bruce Lee’s philosophies, just Bruce Lee’s image alone is very powerful.”


Randy Couture

1. "Bruce made martial arts cool to a generation. He introduced us not only to his philosophy and training, the precursor to MMA, but also stars like Chuck Norris in the famous coliseum fight scene in Way of the Dragon. His legend is alive and well today."

King Mo Lawal

1. "Bruce Lee was ahead of his time…a trendsetter! He was the first true mixed martial artist. He didn’t believe in just one style. He saw the strengths and weaknesses in everything."

Mauro Ranallo

1. "Bruce Lee is an inimitable soul who has inspired generations of martial artists. The spiritual godfather of MMA."

Roy Nelson

1. "Bruce Lee was the first true martial arts icon for me. Every kid wanted to be Bruce Lee. Bruce was a true visionary recognizing the need for integration of various martial arts into one in order to form a true and realistic martial art. Bruce Lee saw the need for MMA way before its time."

Saying Bruce Lee didn’t start it is like saying that MLK had nothing to do with the Civil Rights Act because Johnson signed it and a bunch of other people wrote it. Meanwhile MLK was proselytizing it all over the world and influencing people to see things his way. Bruce Lee put the philosophies that MMA encompasses on the map...he called it out and made it what it is...give that man his flowers.

Listen if you are a true follower of the sport you would know the only reason some guys in MMA say those things about Bruce Lee because 1 they are fans of his and 2 they want to bring mainstream appeal to the sport. Dana even made it a point to put Bruce Lee in multiple UFC games. No disrespect to Bruce Lee his philosophies are definitely what encompasses a modern day mixed martial artist but lets not lose the facts of the sports evolution.


In all reality Rickson gracie and the gracie family put the martial arts world on notice because BJJ was/is that dominant. Wrestlers had to learn jiu jitsu, strikers had to learn to grapple and they all developed what we see now but thats over 30+ year process.

If Bruce Lee philosophy was so impactful we would see evidence of that in early Vale Tudo and Pancrase but we dont

These are the progenitors of what current MMA is. Has nothing to do with Bruce Lee respectfully

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

Your average golden glove is washing bruce lee

sorry