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No, you don't understand me. I don't know much about Bruce either, although it's probably far more than you.

YOU don't know who "Bruce Lee" is because 99.9999% of people on this planet don't know who he is. The only people who do are his close friends and family, to whatever extent that was possible. You know Bruce Lee the performer. When you are someone like Bruce Lee who is selling a way of life, if there is a camera around you you are performing. Your speculation about who he really was is nearly baseless.

What I can tell you, as someone who practiced MMA when I was younger, is that shit like "Full Contact Karate Tournaments" is the little leagues compared to MMA. At best it's a foundation to build upon for several years before you're a competent MMA practitioner. Everybody thought that Bruce Lee could beat Norris in a fight? Who gives a shit. Any decent wrestler from the 90s would dump either of them on their face and rip their guts out through their asshole--And there's hundreds of them. Bruce Lee was not a fighter. Chuck Norris was not a fighter. They were fitness celebrities who "played" at fighting. If you love competitive karate that's really cool, full respect, but you're not training for a real fight. You're training for competitive karate.

Hard, competitive training for actual no-holds-barred fighting is so vastly different than anything Bruce did by his own accounts, so much so that the only people who push these silly narratives are people who have no idea what it's like to actual get in a ring and spar for 5 rounds with everything allowed.