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Originally Posted by scott free
Its not to say you know nothing about how most fights may go down, but all of this talk about "blah movie hero, never had a real fight he won, buncha pretty boy movie techniques etc" is EVERY bit as assinine as saying "Tyson was Clubber Lang incarnate, impervious to pain, fast as lightning, dude was a huge scary black dude from the streets!"
Tyson had no point of reference to deal with all of the myriad techniques Lee would throw at him in a no holds barred, do or die fight... too many people are too wrapped up in his SIZE, his awesome MUSCLES and QUICKS to stop and think about what true martial arts are, IMO.
Didnt mean to slam you personally Rico, but the overconfidence in some circles is crazy, IMO... Lee was faaar stronger and potentially meaner than the average 150 pounder
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The idea of Lee being the greatest martial artist of his generation is wrong. He was the most POPULAR martial artists of his generation and he proliferated eastern arts all across the country. It was a good thing. What he was NOT was a professional fighter.
Plus, I want to continue to bang the drum of BOXING IS A SUPERIOR MARTIAL ART TO WING CHUN, WHICH IS WHY LEE STOLE SO MANY ASPECTS AND INSERTED THEM INTO HIS OWN MARTIAL ART!
I had to use caps, because people seriously seem to think Lee learned the secret Kung fu that only the super masters, whom can defeat any living man, know. This art, FWIW, doesn't even exist. Kung Fu means 'art'. It's not a fighting style. Dragon was a movie, not a documentary. People here probably think he really hurt his back in a street fight and not doing stunts for a movie.
I'm not saying I could beat him up... I"m saying the frame of reference people are using to base his superiority on appears to be film and not reality.