will anybody ever top BRUCE LEE???

Question

1 on 1 combat...no guns....who in the history of fighting can or comes the closest to the skills bruce lee had?????

Answer 1

NO ONE........Jet Li? Not even close

Answer 2

Some people would say Tommy Carruthers and after having seen Tommy Carruthers on youtube I would have to agree they are both equally impressive.

However Im sure there are several people that can top Bruce Lee nowadays, but Im also sure that he would have kept evolving.

If he were teaching nowadays (With the exception of being younger) then I honestly believe that if he stayed on the cutting edge of fighting arts then he would have evolved his art into something like this p199.ezboard.com/fcomhracbasfrm1 www.webspawner.com/users/...index.html This is what I am currently training in now and I will say that anyone training in it could probably defeat the 1973 Bruce Lee. This is in no way ment to be offensive or disrespectful but the current say fighter knows how to beat the attributes.

People please dont knock me for saying this as Bruce Lee was cutting edge when he was out but now the person who has taken his place (As far as teaching goes) is Chris Clugston.

If you want to be impressed or amazed go look at Tommy Carruthers or go here http://www.dynamiccombat.com/about/videogallery.htm

I feel like these guys plus Jet Li and Jackie Chan can out entertain Bruce Lee.

Answer 3

People really should look at the masters of old. While I will not deny that Bruce Lee is quite the athlete, without seeing him fight in earnest, how can one truly have a good idea of his skills? I mean, in a movie, someone with minimal combat training but a good choreographer can look like the deadliest ************ machine in the universe. While looking up to someone's skills, an objective look should be used and not only the image that has been produced by Hollywood and the media.

What about Musashi, who killed his first man when he was only 13 and killed 60 Samurai in duels (not counting common soldiers or other Samurai in battle) by the time he retired from duelling at the age of 29 and wrote one of the most widely studied and adapted treatise on martial arts shortly before his death? What about Hans Talhoffer, the commoner who was the arms master to a knight and his own forces back in the 15th century, whose manual depicts ways that a trained, unarmed man can use to kill a trained man with a sword? Or Camillo Agrippa, the mathematician who developped a system of swordsmanship that was completely rationalized by geometry and became one of hte greatest swordsmen of his time?

And doubtlessly, there are masters out there who are not documented but could have easily outdone any of them.

Answer 4

Bruce Lee beat Chuck so techinically he is number 1. (though the effort and keeping an eye out for Chuck is what probably killed him.) So Bruce Lee Chuck Norris Mr.T Oddjob (Harold Sakata) Samuel Jackson Arnold Schwartzeneggar Andre The Giant Charles Bronson Jackie Chan MacGyver

Answer 5

ok once again this is one of those questions that cannot be answered. There was many fighters before bruce lee and many fighters after. No one has seen every fighter in the world so therefore it is impossible to say Bruce Lee was the Best and can never be beat.

Answer 6

Okay lets just get real here. Everybody is gonna say Bruce because he was the first to really stretch the envelope but I will have to go with the Jet. From what I have heard and read about the guy he was really bad back in his early years. Bad as in in trouble a lot for kicking peoples butts. I have seen Bruce and he never did some of the stuff Jet does. No doubt it would be a good fight but I am gonna lean towards the Jet due to his varying styles.

Answer 7

now i think bruce lee is great now like previously stated movie fighting is not the same as real fighting. there is very lil video of bruce lee actually sparring and to my knowledge no real recorded records of fights(a lot of yea he fought so and so but no actually video or documents) so as for bruce lee's legend i dont think anyone will top that i mean his life and how he died made him a legend and legends never die, and for skills once again not too much proof on his abilities but he had to be somewhat good to make a name for himself to get as big as he did so without proof i cant say that he sucks or hes the best....looking at some demos you can see he had good techniques and was really fast so im leaning towards he was pretty good just maybe not as great as people make him to be(yea he mostly likely could kick my @$$ if he was alive tho) but like i said his death made it impossible to accurately display his feats therefore rumors(could have)emerge along with the skills he already had making him the undefeatable legend

Answer 8

I've never seen Bruce Lee in an actual fight. Nobody knows how tough he really was. He was obviously highly skilled, but how well you take a punch determines the kind of fighter that you are.

Answer 9

If you've read his books or heard about his philosophy you may know that anyone is a potential bruce lee but you got to forget everything you learn before and look very deep inside your soul to know "do i have a bruce lee inside?" then you'll discovered that there's only one Bruce lee we will never see another like him but we may be as good as him

Answer 10

Once again you people have NO CLUE what you are talking about.

Spreading logic and truth in martial arts is becoming monotonous.

Why was bruce any good? Do you have any fight footage? Have any of you ever seen any footage of him sparring? I HAVE.

here it is:
http://www.bruce-lee.ws/sparring_demo.html

I am not suggesting to you that bruce lee was not a good fighter, I am also not suggesting that he was a bad one, the only thing I am suggesting is that you cannot base your assumptions on fake movies (hollywood and entertainment) when fighting in movies is not anywhere close to reality.

Even bruce lee's movies (which he did say he tried to make look "more" realistic), where still theatrical, with typical fighting movies "cliche's" where the guy gets attacked one on one when surrounded, does tons of flashy moves and poses, etc.

I would also say that as Dan Insonato (perhaps lee's most famous student) likely surpassed bruce lee as he lived and continued training. For a bit of movie trivia, he appeared in the horrific exploitation and splicing of bruce lee's "last" film "game of death" as the first guy he fought in the tower.

Theory wise lots of people have surpassed bruce lee's theories as well- his idea of intercepting an attack with another strike to a target area (as opposed to the attacking "limb") is ineffective when fighting a stronger or taller opponent than you. As is evidenced in boxing all the time.

Speaking of boxing, bruce lee during his lifetime even admitted that Muhammad Ali would kick his ***. (Obviously not parkinson's ali).

There is much you aren't looking at and ignoring when you look at him and try to discern his skill level by entertainment media. There are good accounts of him and bad accounts of him. Both sides likely trying to build thier own careers off of his reputation.

Answer 11

Very good question. i've thought about that before.
though there are those that say some fighters in the current UFC can knock him out, but i dont care.

He is still a legend and father of mma. Who fights with a sense of style like Bruce Lee does ?