Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee or Jet Li?

I prefer Jackie Chan, then Jet Li, then Bruce Lee. Lee, for all his technical abilities, has no charisma at all. Li isn't much better, but manages to bring something to his films.

Chan is amazing, simply amazing to watch. Ok he moved to hollywood but you can't fault the guy for that. A simply phenomenal film output, often funny, sometimes hilarious, and such a clever imagination for stunts.
 
thevet said:
if all were aged say 25 and all in there prime ...it would have to be bruce lee...i have no doubt about this whatsoever..having studied the martial arts myself for over 10 years...i say again bruce lee for his ability "out of the movies"
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lol, didnt realise 10 years worth of martial arts made you the leading authority on "who would win in a fight".
 
Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think Jackie Chan (As much as I am a great fan) has any formal martial arts training. I know he studied some martial arts at his theatre school but its never mentioned in depth and no particular art is ever mentioned when it comes to him or any standard/grade achieved. Don't get me wrong, he's an immensely talented bloke with the best fight choreography and stunts i've ever seen.
 
Gaijin said:
Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think Jackie Chan (As much as I am a great fan) has any formal martial arts training. I know he studied some martial arts at his theatre school but its never mentioned in depth and no particular art is ever mentioned when it comes to him or any standard/grade achieved. Don't get me wrong, he's an immensely talented bloke with the best fight choreography and stunts i've ever seen.
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Ok, youre wrong :p Students are taught martial arts at the Peking opera school, amongst other things such as acting, gymnastics and acrobatics.
 
Orange Peel said:
Did you read my post? I said 'most' not all. It wasn't directly aimed at you either, hence the new paragraph :)

You were a late starter at 12 :p
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I realize it wasn't solely and directly aimed at myself though when you quote others' words you should be more specific :)

I may have been a late starter by your standards but I am probably older than you....but you never know. :D
 
Phatjayunoi said:
That is so wrong. MMA competitions and fighters have existed since pretty much the dawn of human civilisation. The difference is that Bruce Lee kind of helped bought it into the mainstream in the 60s/70s, especially when you consider styles and being unorthadox in the generally traditional martial arts world.
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Which martial arts were being mixed since the dawn of time......most arts are only a couple of hundred years old. I'm sorry but Lee was one of the first pioneers of cross training established fighting systems.
 
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Seen this debate so many times.


Jackie Chan was taught Kung Fu at Drama school. Enough said. Not that He isn't tough of course. Anybody who has broken so many bones has got to be a bit nails ;)
Bruce Lee was no doubt a very tough individual.
Jet Li, as far as I can see, never actually fought in competition, I would be interested to see anyone show otherwise. As far as I know he performed exhibition wushu. He was trained as part of some sort of accelerated scholarship to represent china at the Olympics iirc.
 
From Wiki

When Li was eight his talent for wushu was noticed at a summer course at school, and he began his practice there. Li participated in the sport of wushu in the non-sparring event. He began his wushu on the Beijing Wushu Team, an athletic group organized to perform martial arts forms during the All China Games. As a member of the team, he received wushu training and went on to win fifteen gold medals and one silver medal in Chinese wushu championships. According to Li, once, as a child, when the Chinese National Wushu Team went to perform for President Richard Nixon in the United States, he was asked by Nixon to be his personal bodyguard. Li replied, "I don't want to protect any individual. When I grow up, I want to defend my one billion Chinese countrymen!" which earned him much respect in his homeland.[1]

After almost nine years of training, Li has studied some styles of wushu, especially Changquan (Southern Longfist Style). He has also studied other arts including Baguazhang (Eight trigram palm), Taijiquan (Tai chi), Xingyiquan (Shape intent fist), Zuiquan (Drunken fist), and Tang lang quan (Praying mantis fist). He didn't learn Nanquan (Southern fist), because they're focusing only in the Northern Shaolin Styles. He has also studied some of wushu's main weapons, such as San jie gun (Three sectional staff), Gun (Staff), Dao (Broadsword), Jian (Straight sword) and many more.
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15 Gold medals in a country of a billion people isn't exactly a easy feat !
 
panthro said:
lol, didnt realise 10 years worth of martial arts made you the leading authority on "who would win in a fight".
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I suggest you research all 3 of these people to make your own mind up,bruce lee was simply way ahead of his time in his skill,training,concepts and philospophy...but remember "before you drink my tea you must first empty your own cup";)
 
Ali195 said:
In Lethal Weapon 4, Jet was told to slow down when fighting but yeah i dont think he has the power of Bruce.

I have to agree with a lot of comments about Bruce being overrated. If you look in actual kickboxing/martial arts forums you'l find most dont agree with the hype. In an actual competition with real rules........do i think he'd win against todays fighters ....no i dont.

Without rules (i,e street fighting), anything is possible but then were not talking about that... are we?
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bruce lee was faster than most of the best martial artists of today due to his extreme intensive training and RAW talent...i think standing up he was untouchable but i think if he want to the ground with some of the great fighters of today like Rickson Gracie then i think he would have problems...but who knows

JKD (Jeet Kune do) means way of the intercepting fist...which is a counter defensive move for any type of attack,this is bruce's concept in fighting which people use today 35 years down the line"absorb what is usefull,reject what is useless"

what works for one may not work for another...bruce lee all the way to win;)

i mean look at some of his first generation students,Dan inosanto(probably as legendary as bruce),james lee(rip),howard williams,taky kimura,james demille...all very good fighters of today who are alive and well and teaching JKD,these people were all taught by bruce lee when he was alive but the only ones that were graded to teach JKD by bruce before he passed away was Inosanto,Lee and williams....then you have the 2nd,3rd,4th generation etc

as for the other 2 jet li and jackie chan,i reckon "Rickson gracie" would destroy both of them having over 400 undefeated no holds barred fights open to any weight of any style...he is the man of today.
 
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