Bruce Lee is the greatest of all time. When it comes to martial arts nobody can beat him. Someone like Bruce Lee is born once in a great moon like Miyamoto Musashi! A true warrior is born a warrior and Bruce Lee was a born warrior!
@scottishbanjo
4 ай бұрын
I agree bro
@chrisbach1533
5 ай бұрын
Hi there :). Something to add: I give you Little's account from a new podcast about the subject Lee vs Muhammad Ali. He wrote that chapter for his Wrath of the Dragon book, but in the end took it out since it was not about a sparring or fight, only about rumors. Here: „The first time the notion of what would have happened had Bruce Lee duked it out with Muhammad Ali appeared in Linda [Lee-Cadwell]s first book, entitled „The Life and tragic Death of Bruce Lee“, published in England in 1975. In that book Linda presented the following statement: „One critic wrote those who watched him would bet on Lee to render Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) sensless if they were put in a room and told that anything goes.“ It’s true that Linda is quoting a reporter’s opinion in this passage, but 76 pages later in that same book, Linda writes, not quoting anybody, „it has often being argued that if Bruce were locked in a room with Muhammad, and both were allowed to fight in their usual styles, then Bruce was bound to have been the winner.“ Both of these two statements make the same point. That Bruce Lee would have defeated Muhammad Ali had they fought for real. Linda didnt need to include these two sentiments in her book, but the fact remains that she did. The question is if Lee didnt believe this to be the case, then why did she seek out the first quote above and then add a second one of her own? After all, Linda s book has no shortage of praise for martial artists of every stripe and discipline, each thestifying to her late husband’s martial prowess, and she could have left it at that. Clearly the reporter s quote appeard in Linda s book for a reason, and the reason was as her seconding of the reporer sentiment indicates that she, as the representative of Bruce Lee, concurred with the opinion he expressed. But what did Bruce Lee himself said about the matter? Did anyone get a quote directly from him? One man attemted, the Hong Kong journalist John Hardy, who in November 1971 interviewed Lee in an article for the Hong Kong Star Newspaper. Hardy: „How did he fancy himself in the ring against Cassius Clay? Said Mr Lee: Lee: „If you put on a glove, you are dealing with rules. You must now the rules to survive. But in the street you have more tools in your favor, the kick, the throw, the punch.“ Lee clearly had no interest in fighting Ali in a boxing ring, as that would have required him to leave the majority of his weapons behind. His answer suggests that in the street, the advantave and thus the chances of winning, would fall to the man who brought the most weapons to the fight. As Lee with an arsenal of kicks, throws and punches, would have had more weapons than Ali, who only had his two fists. The reader is free to connect the dots here. As this quote of Lee was published two years prior to his death, and there is no eveidence, such as a letter to the editor to suggest that he believed he was misquoted in the matter, then this quote can stand as indicating Lee s opinion on how he believed he would have fared against Ali. It is also, and this is imprtant to note, the only quote attributed to Lee on the matter [him fighting Ali] that was published during his lifetime. (all others, like „my small chinese hands, Ali would kill me“ by Robert Clouse, or Bolo Yeung, or John Saxon, were published after his death). And then there was an other fellow named Bob Bremer, who was one of Lee’s students, who said: Bremer: „Yes I heard it from Bruce’s own mouth“. Lee: „If we were in the street, i would beat the cr..ap out of him [Ali]. But in the ring, not so good.“ Bremer: „He [Bruce] believed it, and i believed it.“ Little: „I do know that he had gone out for dinner with Senator John Tunney, who was the son Gene Tunney, who defeated Jack Dempsey, the famous long count fight, heavyweight championship fight. And John Tunney asked Bruce: „You know what do you think of my dad? You know anything about my dad Gene Tunney? And Bruce said: „Yeah. I dont just know him, i have two books about him.“ John Tunney: „Cool. How do you think you would have done against my dad?“ Lee: „Well, if i stood there and he hit me, forget it. But the question is could he ever get close to me?“ John Tunney: „So you think you could beat him?“ Lee: „To tell you the truth, i could beat anyone in the world [in a street fight].“ Little: „Ali was big and and strong, and Bruce was smart enough to recognize that if you went into Ali s backyard, a boxing ring, and there were rules, he would be a smudge. But on the street it’s something else. Here is an other interesting thing that speaks to that for anyone who says: „Well, Ali in the street would have done something to Lee.“: Ali studied a little bit Taekwondo for a short time under Jhoongoo „Jhoon“ Rhee, and Jhoon was a friend of Bruce. And Jhoon often said: Rhee: „Sparring Bruce was a waste of time, because I couldnt get out of the first gear, and Bruce taught me this punch, which was so fast and so direct, that I couldnt, there is nothing i couldnt get out of the way of it, I couldnt bock it, and I asked him to show it to me and he did. And i shared it with Ali, and it was called „the accu punch“ Ali called it.“ Little: „And Jhoon Rhee said the same, Ali couldnt block it, and Rhee was able to hit Ali with it, and Ali was so impressed with it, that he used it in one of his fights (against Richard Dunn), and i think he knocked the guy out with it. But here is the thing: Jhoon Rhee was not as fast as Bruce Lee, he did not hit as hard as Bruce Lee, and he was able to hit Muhammad Ali. So could Bruce have hit Ali? Yes. Could he have hit harder as Jhoon Rhee? Yes. Was Bruce s technique in a real fight to bob and weave and throw jabs? No. It was to go for the eyes or the throat, or the lead shin. And if you take someone s eyes away, I mean Bruce‘ s closing speed was insane. He practised finger jabs like eye jabs repeatedly, like thousnds of repetitions, to geht the neural muscular pathways down, so he could do it effortlessly. So yeah, in a boxing ring, Ali all day. In the street, i think Lee is the favorite. PS: And this is from me (Chris): Of course the final line is J. Little s opinion. Nobody has to agree. But as you can read in the complete text, during Lee's lifetime, he only spoke one time about this subject in front of a journalist, and this was in November 1971. All these claims later by Robert Clouse, Bolo Yeung, John Saxon etc., among the quotes is the famous "look my small hands, Ali would kill me", were published after Lee was gone. Same of course with the quote of his student Bob Bremer, that Lee told him he would beat the cr..ap out of Ali in a street fight. You can find the whole podcast (John Little Randy Roach)
@scottishbanjo
5 ай бұрын
Hi Chris … thanks for that I really appreciate it bro . I’d never heard that about Jhoon Rhee and of course he was in a position to make a comparison that has some validity. The comment about “ these little Chinese hands” always sounded to me to be like a lighthearted comment and almost in jest . The two men had completely different skill sets that would excell in different environments . Thanks for the extensive comment , I’ll be rereading that
@chrisbach1533
5 ай бұрын
@@scottishbanjo Sure. No problem :).
@unknownband1308
5 ай бұрын
Big ones with chuck Norris
@unknownband1308
5 ай бұрын
Did he have little fights
@scottishbanjo
5 ай бұрын
Sparring matches
@unknownband1308
5 ай бұрын
@@scottishbanjosome think they had a proper fight The filming took ages as everyone wanted to fight him , they said let us finish the film then you can fight him all you want! The actors on the film set never wanted to do another king fu movie again
@scottishbanjo
5 ай бұрын
@@unknownband1308 I’ve heard people saying that they sparred but I don’t know about a real fight … they were friends after all.
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