I could probably beat up Bruce Lee, never mind a pro fighter. Can't believe there are still kung fu woo woo nerds who believe this Bruce Lee garbage. The guy was an actor ffs with not ONE SINGLE shred of video footage or verifiable official documentation of him EVER having a real fight.
I'm curious how his speed would compare to the top fighters his size. He was never filmed going at full speed because at the time cameras didn't have the frame rate to capture it.
Bruce was very fast and athletic for his time but his speed was not out of this world compared to high level mma fighters at his weight(125-135). Compare his speed to a John Dodson or a Demetrious Johnson. I don't think he is faster than those guys.
It's true! Everybody else goes full speed in Bruce Lee scenes, but he himself was doing everything in slo-mo. That's how fast he was! He couldn't fight in 'real' fights because the techniques he used were too deadly!!! His Shivering Palm could kill with one touch !!!!
nine of ten golden glove boxers would knock him the f out. anything more advanced and he is obliterated.
Lee might be at the level of an amateur kickboxer in his own weight class. I think he had a couple amateur boxing matches before he came to the States, and lots of actual fighters (including Lewis, Norris, and I think Marchini) trained with him. Several of them said he could fight reasonably well. He supposedly had a couple challenge matches against Chinese martial artists. Hard to establish whether they were any good, though. He trained full-time like a professional fighter, so on experience alone he has an advantage over a 9-5 worker who fights in his spare time. Then again, his recorded lifts from his journals weren't spectacular (except for an anomalous biceps curl), and his running times are nothing special either. He looks OK in demonstration sparring. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4a934j8fTc So Lee was more of a theorist / coach with an amateur background, like a martial arts version of Manny Steward. He popularized martial arts, and a lot of his insights proved more or less correct, but we shouldn't expect him to beat a top level professional fighter.
I have seen Bruce Lee in person, as well as many other Martial Artist and he was extremely fast. most styles of martial arts have some type of ground game embedded in them. he would have had to work on some things but i would say that he would have done very well. You might add how Bill Wallace would have done?
Probably not well, since he'd permanently injured one of his legs in judo, which is why he relied on his left so heavily. Doesn't bode well in grappling.
