Originally Posted by Profits of Doom (Post 19649947)

I'm curious, exactly what "technique" do you think you are going to use in a "real fight" that is going to be superior to MMA? That myth was blown out of the water in the first few UFC's, where there were no rules and BJJ was proven to be the superior fighting style. Biting, eye gouging, and all of that other silly stuff was proven time and time again to not work, and there is no secret technique you are going to pull off in a no rules street fight that is going to help you against a trained MMA fighter, short of pulling out a weapon. You think you're going to kick an MMA fighter in the balls and that is your secret technique?

Things like soccer kicks, knees to a downed opponent's head, and most of all the headbutt are the most devastating fighting techniques that are generally banned from MMA (with the exception of some promotions in Brazil and Japan), and in a street fight an MMA fighter is going to use all 3 of those against you...

Originally Posted by Marcus Aurelius (Post 19649603)

He has never seriously competed in martial arts.

Just because Sylvester Stallone beat Apollo Creed and Ivan Drago in the movies, does not make him a great boxer.

But to Bruce Lee fans, to even point out the lack of any prominent accomplishments in actual fighting competitions is tantamount to heresy.

Bruce Lee definitely had screen presence and charisma. But he was a skilled entertainer.

MMA has been around for 20 years now. Has there been a prominent MMA competitor whose primary discipline was Chinese kung fu? We've seen wrestlers, karate masters, muay thai and judo practitioners do well. But kung fu is nowhere to be seen.

You'd think that the Shaolin temple master would enter the UFC and use his "touch of death" to wipe everybody out. Nope.

Originally Posted by madm1k3 (Post 19650642)

Now I'm going to throw on my Affliction shirt and go train at my MMA gym above the taco bell (we used to call the gym a dojo but none of us knew what it meant). I am six months in and I already have two black belts so I'm pretty much a ninja. Hopefully I can get a fight at the local strip club in the next couple months, because everyone knows MMA records are the only thing that defines a fighter

Originally Posted by DWB (Post 19650680)

I am 97% sure that most of the guys on GFY could take Bruce Lee in a street fight.

Originally Posted by Robbie (Post 19650652)

Never really thought about it before...but from what I have read about Bruce Lee, if he had lived long enough he probably would have studied Brazilan Jiu Jitsu as well and added it to his regimen.

And he probably would have been really good at it.

One thing is for sure, he became a famous "actor" because of his physical skills which were pretty remarkable. He was definitely a world class athlete and with his speed could have been one hell of a shoot wrestle guy too.

Originally Posted by DWB (Post 19650680)

I am 97% sure that most of the guys on GFY could take Bruce Lee in a street fight.

Originally Posted by livexxx (Post 19650893)

It is pretty much widely known that any UFC / MMA fighter would get beaten by Zui Quan style, they even had to ban that style through their regs and rules, as they now ban fighters from being intoxicated before a fight.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zui_Quan

Originally Posted by livexxx (Post 19650893)

It is pretty much widely known that any UFC / MMA fighter would get beaten by Zui Quan style, they even had to ban that style through their regs and rules, as they now ban fighters from being intoxicated before a fight.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zui_Quan

Originally Posted by Marcus Aurelius (Post 19649603)

He has never seriously competed in martial arts.

Just because Sylvester Stallone beat Apollo Creed and Ivan Drago in the movies, does not make him a great boxer.

But to Bruce Lee fans, to even point out the lack of any prominent accomplishments in actual fighting competitions is tantamount to heresy.

Bruce Lee definitely had screen presence and charisma. But he was a skilled entertainer.

Originally Posted by DWB (Post 19650680)

I am 97% sure that most of the guys on GFY could take Bruce Lee in a street fight.

Originally Posted by dyna mo (Post 19649702)

maybe on account his arms and legsmoved so fast they made whooshing noises?

Originally Posted by BettingHandle (Post 19651400)

Originally Posted by blackmonsters (Post 19651087)

Da fUcK?

He just straight out cheated in the end by spitting alcohol in the dudes face.

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Originally Posted by Robbie (Post 19651899)

I'm pretty sure that with the fighting style Bruce Lee was using in movies (striking) he would be destroyed by a modern day MMA fighter in the ring. (strikers rarely win)

But, as I said before...Bruce Lee died very young. If he had lived a few more years and incorporated a grappling style and Brazil Jiu Jitsu into his repertoire he could have kicked some serious ass in today's MMA.

As someone else already said...trying to say that Bruce Lee isn't a great fighter because of the style he used is like saying that Einstein was stupid because he didn't know HTML.

People work within their timeframe of history.

Put them all on the same timeframe and yes...I'd bet that with Bruce Lee's speed, physical ability and obvious drive to be the best that he would have mastered Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and made his mark in the UFC if he were 25 years old in 2013.