Current Events > Do you guys think bruce lee would have fought in the ufc

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I would have liked to see him fight those guys who pretend to knock people out across the room using "energy" or some such nonsense.

Xu Xiaodong (Chinese: ; born 15 November 1979), nicknamed "Mad Dog", is a Chinese mixed martial artist (MMA) who is known for challenging and fighting fraudulent martial artists. He gained prominence online after he was filmed defeating self-proclaimed Tai chi master Wei Lei in 2017

Xu was sued in 2019 for calling tai chi Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang a fraud, and the Chinese court ordered him to pay Chen approximately US$60,000 in damages and to apologize for seven consecutive days on social media. Additionally, his social credit rating was lowered to the point where he could not rent, own property, stay in certain hotels, travel on high speed rail or buy plane tickets.[16][17] The restrictions were lifted after he paid US$40,000 in both legal fees and the cost of placing the apology.[18]

Chuck Norris, who was a multiple time champion in full contact karate tournaments, said matter-of-factly that Bruce Lee would have won had they ever fought. So did pretty much anyone else who knew him. The people saying that his offense was weak or that he wasn't legit are the people who didn't know him in real life.

Would Bruce have been an unstoppable opponent in the octagon? In his weight class, sure. Do they even have a weight class for people who are 135 lb.? The thing of it is, I don't think Bruce Lee wanted to hurt people. Being the fastest gun in the west isn't the same as wanting to gun down everyone to prove it.

He had a lucrative film career. There wouldn't have been much of a point to step down to become a competitive athlete, risk injury, and make money off of hurting other people when he could put on exhibitions of his ability and still make bank without getting hurt or hurting others.

There's footage of a person challenging Bruce Lee to a fight. (Unless you want to say it's staged.) Bruce fakes a punch, then opponent takes the bait and tries to block it - leaving himself wide open to a tremendous kick to the midsection. Bruce never throws the kick. It's enough to know that he had that guy beat. That's the kind of guy I think Bruce was. He wasn't going to kick you in the stomach or punch you in the face just to prove that he could.

Yikes. That's fucked up.

No. Even if the UFC starts 40 years earlier also No. He was not a competitive fighter at any point in his life.

Chuck Norris, who was a multiple time champion in full contact karate tournaments, said matter-of-factly that Bruce Lee would have won had they ever fought. So did pretty much anyone else who knew him. The people saying that his offense was weak or that he wasn't legit are the people who didn't know him in real life.

Would Bruce have been an unstoppable opponent in the octagon? In his weight class, sure. Do they even have a weight class for people who are 135 lb.? The thing of it is, I don't think Bruce Lee wanted to hurt people. Being the fastest gun in the west isn't the same as wanting to gun down everyone to prove it.

He had a lucrative film career. There wouldn't have been much of a point to step down to become a competitive athlete, risk injury, and make money off of hurting other people when he could put on exhibitions of his ability and still make bank without getting hurt or hurting others.

There's footage of a person challenging Bruce Lee to a fight. (Unless you want to say it's staged.) Bruce fakes a punch, then opponent takes the bait and tries to block it - leaving himself wide open to a tremendous kick to the midsection. Bruce never throws the kick. It's enough to know that he had that guy beat. That's the kind of guy I think Bruce was. He wasn't going to kick you in the stomach or punch you in the face just to prove that he could.

Xu was sued in 2019 for calling tai chi Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang a fraud, and the Chinese court ordered him to pay Chen approximately US$60,000 in damages and to apologize for seven consecutive days on social media. Additionally, his social credit rating was lowered to the point where he could not rent, own property, stay in certain hotels, travel on high speed rail or buy plane tickets.

No. Even if the UFC starts 40 years earlier also No. He was not a competitive fighter at any point in his life.

Not competitively but he did do some fighting in Hong Kong's rooftop fighting scene. It was one of the things that led him away from traditional martial arts and into creating his own hybrid thing.

Lmao you know nothing about Bruce Lee or martial arts.

Funny story about this. The Chinese government allowed the challenge to happen provided that he wore clown makeup so people couldn't recognize him and had to fight under a fake name. The "chi master" accepted the challenge because he figured that without being able to rent, stay in hotels, fly, take trains, and constant threats to his safety he'd never actually get there to fight.

Well he did after traveling by himself for 36 hours and then proceeded to beat the shit out of that guy.

He's still doing stuff like this afaik but he's been heavily censored so basically nobody in China is hearing about it.

From his perspective however even if the only people who hear about this are the students being defrauded that's worth it to him. He's a truly good guy and super dedicated to a good cause despite the adversity.

Guys remember there was no weight classes back then. And there were no rules. No gloves. Other than royce gracie and dan severn and remko pardo most guys were strikers. Bruce lee was familiar with grappling if you watch his movies he knew what an arm bar was. He knew what a kneebar was. He knew what a rear naked choke was. He knew what a guillotine was. Long before the masses did. He may have done better than you think. But still i think he sticks to movies. Doesnt take away from him being a martial artist. Tons of guys are legit and dont compete.

Chuck Norris was not a fighter.

Yeah, I stopped reading there. You might as well say that Muhammad Ali was not a fighter. He's just a guy who uses gloves for a shield.

Lee had strong interest in fighting efficiently and effectively, not sticking to any particular moveset for the sake of doctrine, so I believe he would've been interested in the UFC. And then he would've gotten really invested in the Gracies.

No, he wouldn't have. Bruce Lee knew almost nothing about grappling despite having every opportunity to learn from skilled Judoka and Catch Wrestlers in his time. If you go watch "grappling" compilations from his movies, as a matter of fact, there are some legitimately asinine stuff he does despite supposedly championing "efficiency" and "simplicity" and "combat realism". Bruce didn't give a shit about mastering grappling, he only invested enough time into it to learn how to do a few techniques poorly so he looked, to casual viewers, like he had a great knowledge about fighting in general.

No one gave a shit about BJJ until Gracies started dominating, is the thing.

Christ if someone attempted to do that to me in real life I'd say fuck it and pick them up for a power bomb.

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I'm close to 300 lbs my guy, and I have a wrestling background. No one is getting me down for a double leg takedown. Plus if his body is in that prone position, he has no way to block it from happening.

I can tell from the words used that this is a lie. And it wouldn't matter if you were 500 lbs, physics still wins

physics only works if your able to pull that much weight. A guy who is 500 lbs has at least 400 of those lbs pushing downward giving some stability, that said, they tire out more, and if you can get them down they are down for the count.

This is how I know you never, ever, ever wrestled.

...bc thats not how physics, specifically leverage, works... Emmanuel Yarborough, for instance, was a 700 lb sumo wrestler. He can be, and was, taken down.

You arent staying standing when you have 200+ lbs of mass spearing your knees at whatever speed they shoot at while lacking the ability to backpedal, doesnt matter how much you weigh.