Check out James DeMile. He has the background. He knew Lee. He studied with him. He was a streetfighter and undefeated USAF heavyweight boxer, etc etc. He says that to this day, Lee was the best in real life. The best in the world. Check out how he learned. He didn't have a SPAM BLOCK to support him He was more obsessed than Bruce Wayne; when Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, in his prime, ran with Lee, the big guy couldn't keep up with him. Check out remarks of top boxers, like Sugar Ray Leonard, who says he derived his jab from watching Lee on film. Check out Manny Pacquiao's comments, that Lee is his hero.
Lee didn't back down from the chinese gangsters, who wanted to muscle in his career. Do you know what they've done to actors and actresses who didn't play? One famous actor they made him eat his own s***. Lee was so bad he tore up their checks in front of their faces. When filming Enter the Dragon, just for fun Lee would put his hand on the chopping block for the cooks to slam down. They always missed. He had a razor sharp training device, electrified. Anyone who says "I could take Bruce Lee' just has to reconstruct this device and he'll be in the running. I don't know any fighter who would do this. In other words he was either supremely confidant, or crazy, or both. Do you think a sporting fighter such as MMA / boxing, wrestling will have a chance against such a guy? Boxers take time off from training, because their heart isn't in it. Lee trained all year long, like an Olympic swimmer. So anyone who is badder than Bruce Lee has to 1/ be prepared to laugh in gangster's faces 2/ do the crazy stunts he did, with hatchets, razor devices and such.
DeMile can back this story up: in the early days, when Lee wasn't even at his peak, there were about half a dozen guys, all big and hard guys. They said as a group, "Bruce could beat us all at the same time." I don't know of any fighter in the world who
engenders that awe.
When Lee was in Vegas, he met the singer tony Bennett in Bennett's suite, with his two beefy bodyguards, The subject of course turned to fighting, and Bennett said "A good Italian streetfighter could beat a kung fu guy." Lee said, put mouth where your etc .... He said one bodyguard would guard the door, the other would smoke a cigarette, representing a loaded but holstered gun. Bennett had a stopwatch. Lee went out the door and closed it. A few seconds later, the door smashed in, from a kick, the door smashing into the first guy. Lee then kicked the cigarette out of the guy's mouth. Bennett said something like
Holy sheet!
These aren't myths, they have credible witnesses. Another story, told by Lee (I don't know the witnesses) but in Vegas, probably at the same time as the Bennett meet. A security guy was hassiling him, 6'6" or so. Lee dropped him with one side kick to the jaw. Then he walked off. There are plenty of stories like this, all with good witnesses ... such as when a Hongkong
fighter, boxer/wrestler wanted to make a name for himself. Lee put him off, but the guy wouldn't stop. They met at an estate... Lee caved in the side of his face with one punch. No jabs, nothing else. The guy vanished from the scene. It was said he was flown to Japan for surgery, and that Lee paid for it. Witnesses also verify that he was a pretty nice guy, helping out strangers and friends. Like when in Hong Kong a guy carrying plates in the rain dropped them. Lee ran out, the guy was crying because he would lose his job over the plates. Lee helped him pick up the ones not broken, and gave him some money.
So while with a lot of flaws, such as a temper, he was a classy guy too.
So respectfully I suggest people check out real history and not people who weren't there.Statistics: Posted by TheBrownKnight — 28 Jul 2012, 10:37
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