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AL: Hate to break it to you, but your blog on Bruce Lee is a mess. I could write a book on the half-truths, suppositions, and utter b.s. contained in your blog. For the sake of space, I?ll focus on your claims that Lee was unproven. First of all, to state that Lee was unproven because he didn?t compete in point tournaments demonstrates that you have no idea what REAL fighting is nor do you have a clue as to why point fighters in the 1960′s waited until Bruce had passed before talking shit.

Yip Man called Bruce, ?fighting crazy,? and his brother Robert stated that Bruce was such a feared street fighter that his fellow high school classmates called him ?King Gorilla.? With no boxing experience, Bruce then entered the Hong Kong high school boxing championships and he defeated 3 time champion Gary Elms for the lightweight title. A fight with the son of a triad member placed Bruce in the crosshairs of both law enforcement and the triads, so his father shipped him off to America in 1959.

Bruce?s penchant for getting into REAL fights continued during his years in America from 1959-1970. In that same time period, he trained the best point fighters of that era which included Joe Lewis, Mike Stone, Chuck Norris, and Louis Delgado. In a 1970 interview with Black Belt Magazine, Delgado admitted that Lee not only changed his training regiment, but that sparring sessions with the Little Dragon were the most humbling experiences of his martial arts career. In 1974, Delgado told Fighting Stars magazine that Lee was the toughest man he ever faced.

Lee also sparred with Chuck Norris, but despite some of those sessions being witnessed by Dan Inosanto, Norris told his fellow point fighters and several interviewers that he and Lee never sparred. A few years ago, Norris finally fessed up to sparring against Lee, stating ?it was fun.? Could the reason why Norris bullshitted the world about this issue for 35 years was due to Bruce getting the best of him in these sessions?

It?s important to remember that in the 1960′s, NOBODY, and I mean, nobody, was sparring the way that Bruce and his students were sparring at his kwoon in L.A./Chinatown. Lee and his students sparred all out in full gear during a time when sparring in martial arts schools were glorified games of tag. One must then ask, who exactly was proving themselves and who wasn?t?

Let?s talk turkey, Bruce Lee was a genius and that is why the top martial artists of his day sought him out. To argue whether he was the greatest fighter of all-time is irrelevant. What is relevant is that he was a highly skilled martial artist who created his own martial art at the tender age of 26.

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