How great was Bruce Lee?

[Stopspot]

Everyone has their opinions =)

Just looking at it as a science bro. Bruce was primarily a striker who dabbled in grappling. While grapplers rule MMA. A grappler controls the fight. How are you going to punch and kick someone that forces you to the ground and chokes you out/knocks you out?

 

[seabs]

Anyone at WW or heavier it wouldn't even be fair.

I've always heard Lee walked around at 132, meaning no way he could cut to 125 seeing as he had like no body fat. 135 would be his class, which is why I said Faber.

If you want to take Lock hards post literally, then yea, obviously any LHW or HW would fucking kill poor Bruce Lee. Imagine a power double leg from Chael followed by ground and pound lol. Lee didn't have any grappling experience to my knowledge, so he would be a fish out of water. Become the teacup.

I think he trained abit with Gene Lebell, apparently Gene choked him out once or twice. I can't find anything credible with that though to confirm or deny it.

 

[Red Rain]

You must have meant Jean Claude Van Damme or JCVD.

JVCD would roundhouse kick every UFC guy and win all titles in all weight classes.

[HASHTAG]#unstoppable[/HASHTAG]

Van Dam has a legit kickboxing record of 18-1. He would have likely found more success in MMA than Lee, though both would get mauled by a competent grappler

 

[Dolph'sZiggler]

Everyone has their opinions =)

You realize he is an actor with no pro fights right?

 

[Dolph'sZiggler]

I hope you meant Jean Claude Van Damme or JCVD. I used to be a mark.

Yea Van Damme, whatevs

 

[Just Kevin]

I think he trained abit with Gene Lebell, apparently Gene choked him out once or twice. I can't find anything credible with that though to confirm or deny it.

Here's Gene's interview on his interactions with Bruce...

http://genelebell.com/stories.html

You realize he is an actor with no pro fights right?

Yes, which is why I am not debating something that is so stupid to debate... I stated my opinion and I'll leave it at that. I don't debate speculation with no facts to back anything up.. neither person can ever be right in that type of debate.

 

[Senhor Perfect]

I hope you meant Jean Claude Van Damme or JCVD. I used to be a mark.

Wasn't it obvious who I meant when you saw the GIF? :idk:

 

[seabs]

Wasn't it obvious who I meant when you saw the GIF? :idk:

Think he was talking to D'Z.

 

[Dolph'sZiggler]

Here's Gene's interview on his interactions with Bruce...

http://genelebell.com/stories.html



Yes, which is why I am not debating something that is so stupid to debate... I stated my opinion and I'll leave it at that. I don't debate speculation with no facts to back anything up.. neither person can ever be right in that type of debate.

Look dude, Bruce Lee was a cool motherfucker and clearly a talented martial artist, but he wasn't a fighter. Now, do I think if Bruce Lee had been born in 1990 and started training to become a mixed martial artist with the goal of becoming a UFC champion could he have? Absolutely. But could we just take Bruce Lee circa 1970, raise him up from the grave and have him compete with today's mixed martial artists? No, he would get taken to task. It really isn't a debate. Just the realities of the evolution of MMA over the past 20-30 years.

 

[Red Rain]

I was talking to Senhor and D'Z.

Wasn't it obvious who I meant when you saw the GIF? :idk:

Think he was talking to D'Z.

 

[Dolph'sZiggler]

Did RVD really "rip his gimmick"?

I thought they just look similar and so he took his last name. I've never seen a JCVD movie, does he smoke a lot of weed?

 

[seabs]

They both kick a lot of people.

 

[Stopspot]

and do splits

 

[Red Rain]

Did RVD really "rip his gimmick"?

I thought they just look similar and so he took his last name. I've never seen a JCVD movie, does he smoke a lot of weed?

Yep and nope.

 

[The GOAT]

you are speaking purely from ignorance so I forgive you

weight classes are far from the only issue with your asinine pondering of if any man could take on Bruce Lee

lol Still going on about weight classes. All the tangible qualities that I mentioned before would absolutely benefit someone in a real fight, and I wasn't talking about Bruce Lee specifically, but about how size for someone in general isn't the end all-be all in determining who would win in a fight. Calling me ignorant isn't gonna change that. If two guys are equally trained in whatever fighting technique they possess but one guy is one-hundred pounds and skinny as a toothpick and the other guy is around three-hundred pounds, then yeah, that first guy is almost certainly fucked. That doesn't prove that superior size/weight equals superior fighting skills in every situation.