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Bruce was 130 lbs, give or take. What fighter at 150lbs and under would mess with him back in the day?
Sugar Ray Robinson For one....
Bruce was 130 lbs, give or take. What fighter at 150lbs and under would mess with him back in the day?
Mashiko Kimura were NOT MUCH heavier then Bruce Lee.
Is there a video of him saying that? Although I agree it's hard to believe he'd say that considering how wrestling wasnt a big deal back then. It seems like he predicted the future.Good martial arts film actor. Tremendous physique.
With regards to fighting skill... ehhhhh. Overrated.
Though he has been quoted to say that he thought the combination of boxing and wrestling was formidable, so it's not like he shunned the ground.
Thats the Gracie version of it. It's unclear exactly how much Helio weighed at the time. We know he was bigger then his brother Carlos and he was taller then Kimura. The reason he said that was not because of weight.... it was to generate hype for the fight. Kimura was a pro-wrestler. He made his living from drawing crowds.
George Medhi, a Judo master who trained under both Kimura and the Gracies has stated that Kimura agreed to stall for the first 13 minutes of the fight before putting Helio away.
Actually medhi said worst.
The stalling story is from kimura autobiography.
You may be right. But I distinctly remember reading an interview with Medhi where he said that as well.
I did not know that Bruce Lee had any formal training in any form of grappling!
Some wrestling, a wee bit of silat, and some time with Gene Lebell. He definitely didn't explore Judo as much as he easily could have, especially considering that Judo Gene was one of the people who really handled him
So? Sir Isaac Newton invented calculus before Leibniz. Is Leibniz a retard because he came up calculus after Newton? No. He was a genius.
Genius will come up with the same truths, the same conclusions. A real fighter will come up with similar truths, tactics and conclusions.
I'm not saying that Bruce Lee was some fighting god, but he wasn't JUST a movie star either. He was a real fighter who would have held his own, not just because of his skills, but his mindset to constantly evolve and learn.
And perhaps Bruce Lee's biggest contribution was that he evangelized his message of cross training. He didn't just cross train for his own benefit and keep it to himself. He preached it, taught it, put it in his movies. He gave interviews and did demonstrations of the benefits of cross training. And he practiced what he preached.
The fight game is full of coaches who were never top fighters, but have turned out tremendous champions. Bruce read about fighting voraciously and his notebooks (eventually published as the Dao of JKD) were notes he had made from other books.
It is possible for Lee to have been as influential as he was without actually being a fighter himself.
Personally, I don't know what to think. But you're drawing faulty conclusions.
Some people claim that Lee plagiarized his Philosophies, I have no idea whether or not this was true. I think his philosophies were good, and his view on the martial arts evolving was good as well.
Like a million no name thai fightersBruce was 130 lbs, give or take. What fighter at 150lbs and under would mess with him back in the day?
Like a million no name thai fighters
Tony Danza would have fucked him up. I promiseI agree, I think many collegiate and Olympic Wrestlers would have beaten him. I think good Boxers, Thai Boxers, and Kyokushin Kai guys would have beaten him.
Tony Danza would have fucked him up. I promise