Bruce Lee vs Modern Martial Arts

Guys, Bruce Lee was not a fighter. Did he ever have fights in his life? Maybe, maybe not. Some guy saying he beat up rival gangs is not proof. He didn't train to fight although I'm sure he did spar.

Also to people saying "MMA guys wouldn't stand a chance in a street fight". What? Why? Because "street fighters" train for street fights and MMA fighters train for sport?

How does one train for street fighting? How do you practice eye gouging, fish hooking and nut kicking in sparring? You don't. Why can a trained MMA fighter not utilise these techniques in a street fight?

A trained MMA fighter will 9.8/10 beat a street fighter, they don't have to stick to MMA rules in a street fight. The movement and composure of a trained fighter will always win. (This is of course assuming it would be 1 on 1 with no weapons).
 
So he would only stand a chance if we were to tailor the competition exactly to his strengths and to remove everyone elses? Sounds hmmm fair.



Look what happened to Kimbo - although he did better than I thought he would in fairness.

Exactly. I respected him though because he was really eager to actually learn MMA and didn't come in with the "street fighter" attitude.
 
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Bruce Lee also used Wing Chun, a form of Kung Fu I'm currently learning.

And a lot of it requires you to be in close, I don't know how well some of these martial artists would hold up against ground and pound.

Yeah I know i'm jumping to the end and posting, but i'm off to work in 5 mins. No time to read the whole thread.
 
I'm just saying, ban the floor hugging and they could never beat Bruce.

Ban Bruce Lee kicking, punching and grappling and my mum would have had him. Whatever next shall I claim my 5 year lad is cleverer than someone with a PhD by restricting every question exclusively to knowledge about Lego Star Wars figures.
 
Bruce Lee also used Wing Chun, a form of Kung Fu I'm currently learning.

And a lot of it requires you to be in close, I don't know how well some of these martial artists would hold up against ground and pound.

Yeah I know i'm jumping to the end and posting, but i'm off to work in 5 mins. No time to read the whole thread.

Ground fighting comes down to strength ultimately, if you can't manipulate your opponent's body in a way that puts them at a disadvantage due to a lack of strength compared to theirs, you won't win.

I fully expect very few martial artists would hold up well at all to ground and pound against someone with a weight advantage (for those claiming Bruce Lee would cain people in weight classes above his).
 
Ground fighting comes down to strength ultimately, if you can't manipulate your opponent's body in a way that puts them at a disadvantage due to a lack of strength compared to theirs, you won't win.

I fully expect very few martial artists would hold up well at all to ground and pound against someone with a weight advantage (for those claiming Bruce Lee would cain people in weight classes above his).

BJJ isn't really down to strength. Strength helps with any aspect of MA but BJJ was specifically designed for the small guy to be able to beat the big guy. Of course if the big guy is as skilled as the small guy the small guy is going to have a bad time but technique almost always beats strength.
 
BJJ isn't really down to strength. Strength helps with any aspect of MA but BJJ was specifically designed for the small guy to be able to beat the big guy. Of course if the big guy is as skilled as the small guy the small guy is going to have a bad time but technique almost always beats strength.

I've had first hand experience of this, I've sparred with some people with BJJ experience, and in my case, strength and weight made a massive difference when I had literally no BJJ experience.

If someone can't move your arms or haven't got the strength to choke you out, their level of experience and technique are useless.

You know, their grip is easily broken so they can't hold a choke, they can't perform an arm bar because they couldn't break my grip, that sort of stuff.

I didn't win, but I didn't lose, because I didn't know how to do anything it was just me resisting until they got bored and gave up.
 
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