Anyone have Bruce Lee's Boxing Rec.?

[cezar78]

i'd like to see this fight

[bojangles1987]

This - the most hilarious thread in all of boxingscene is the Ali v bruce Lee one. According to the poll the geniuses who frequent this site reckon Lee would smash Ali up.

I remember seeing that thread when I first found this site but hadn't joined up yet. Laughed my ass off.

Look, as Sugarj said Bruce Lee might have had the physical capabilities to be a good combat fighter, but he was an actor. There's no proof he was any ridiculously special martial artist.

[IronDanHamza]

I don't even like Bruce Lee's films. My sister used to love them when they came out. They're terrible, IMO.

And in terms of Bruce Lee being a fighter, Yeah, and Jackie Chan would beat Mike Tyson

[A7glow]

In the ring, Bruce Lee as well as most other martial artists, would get beaten by a good boxer. Bruce Lee admitted this. However, he did fight. He fought in the street quite a bit, actually. He was a legitimate martial artist. And Chuck Norris? Lmao! I can't believe someone mentioned him as a legitimate fighter. Nope. He was a sport fighter, a point fighter. He was skilled but far from the animal people make him out to be, believe me. If anyone here practices martial arts and has fought in or even attended tournaments before you'll know what I'm talking about. Chuck Norris...haha.

[RA-Box]

I don't doubt that his fanaticism with fitness, his grace, reactions and natural handspeed would have given him an excellent chance as a professional boxer. There are enough reports from those who saw him (and film too) that confirm that his speed of hand was quite something. He was a seriously competitive and driven guy.

Excellent, excellent post. If he was brought in and built up with steady competition (not Duran on the first fight). He definitely had the base skills and the mindset for championship.

And to the OP, I've always always thought Zab Judah was boxing's Bruce Lee as far as form and physicality was concerned.

[Sugarj]

Excellent, excellent post. If he was brought in and built up with steady competition (not Duran on the first fight). He definitely had the base skills and the mindset for championship.

And to the OP, I've always always thought Zab Judah was boxing's Bruce Lee as far as form and physicality was concerned.

Cheers bud.

Bruce Lee is one of my idols, possibly as much as Ali or Ray Robinson.......but obviously for different reasons. But I consider myself a Bruce Lee realist, not a deluded fan.

I've read just about everything about him including his own writings and have just about every film and/or documentary on video or DVD. He was quite a guy.

I don't doubt that he was potentially a world class martial artist, with excellent form, grace, speed, power and knowledge. The area he almost certainly would have lacked in, would have been in world class full contact sparring. A fighter needs this......

In a way, he had to die when he did to cement his legend. Otherwise fans might well have became restless and demanded a proper demonstration of the skills which he was only too happy to let fans believe in (deluded or not!).

As for the style he'd no doubt bring to a boxing ring I think it might look like something of a mish mash of Manny Pacquiou and Pernell Whitaker. He'd probably be aiming for the power, speed and workrate of Pac coupled with the defensive smarts, elusiveness and footwork of Whitaker. It would be crackers for me to suggest that he could have ever been anything like as good as these two pound for pound boxing ATGs. So lets not get carried away......

[Anthony342]

In the ring, Bruce Lee as well as most other martial artists, would get beaten by a good boxer. Bruce Lee admitted this. However, he did fight. He fought in the street quite a bit, actually. He was a legitimate martial artist. And Chuck Norris? Lmao! I can't believe someone mentioned him as a legitimate fighter. Nope. He was a sport fighter, a point fighter. He was skilled but far from the animal people make him out to be, believe me. If anyone here practices martial arts and has fought in or even attended tournaments before you'll know what I'm talking about. Chuck Norris...haha.

He only competed in karate? Wow and the belief for years, probably because of his movies, was that Norris was this champion kickboxer. So he was basically just like Jean Claude Van Damme or Dolph Lundgren, except those 2 guys at least competed in some full contact karate. Yeah, there's no telling how good Lee was or could've been, but he was one of the first proponents of mixed martial arts, that is, combining different styles to see what works best in a real fight when fighters are not confined to just one style of fighting.

I know there are very few, if any, MMA fans here, but at least the Gracies proved themselves in real no holds barred fights as fighters and proved the effectiveness of their Brazilian Jiu Jitsu art. Maybe if he hadn't gotten into acting, Lee might have tried some NHB fights to prove the real effectiveness of his Jeet Kune Do art.