Which martial artist do you think can measure up to the legendary bruce lee?

Answer 1

Hong Xi Quan - the most famous martial artist in China's history, a hung gar expert, arguably the best

Pai Mei- anybody who can kill the heads of the Shaolin temple is one nasty $%*^%

Pang Qing Fu- Iron Palm expert, busted up 2 dozen Chinese gangs after the police department tried and failed, a living legend living in Canada

There are many more obscure experts that were undefeated in their careers which were often fights to the death, not tournament/sport fighting. Bruce Lee is just the most popular martial artist.

Answer 2

No one can equal his impact on the world.
Not only was he an innovator(his contributions created MMA)
he was also a Philosopher, Teacher, and friend to many of our current marital arts experts.
Someone suggested that Bruce Lee would be disassembled by today's fighters. If they knew anything about the truth-this statement would be illogical and invalid.
Primarily because, prior to Bruce Lee--American Martial Arts was limited to traditional forms and methodologies. During the `60's point Karate Tournaments were common place. And, many of the top winners trained privately with Lee (e.g. Joe Lewis, Chuck Norris, Ed Parker, to mention a few). American Martial Arts was in its infantile stages--only one mind looked at the Martial Arts as a historical body of combative techniques--the mind of Bruce Lee( he incorporated combat methods of fencing, western boxing, wrestling, Arnis, Muay Thai, Chinese Boxing, and Savate).
Bruce Lee believed that, the verification of training was through combat or full contact.
Master Lee compelled all stylist to do their homework and prove their theories and techniques as effective.

Answer 3

Bruce Lee was what all martial artists strive to be. You cannot measure up to the standard, you can only try to improve yourself. No current martial artists can ever gain the world wide respect that Bruce held.

Jackie Chan is Jackie Chan because of Bruce, mixed martial arts exist because of Bruce, and the blogbaba is writing this because of Bruce.

Answer 4

any that actually sparred or weighed more by a significant amount. I'm only going by bruce's time. so as to cut down on the explanation and list of people who could match or surpass the hollywood movie star.

People like to buy into the bull that thier instructor tells them that "size doesn't matter", any instructor that says that as it always applies is a doofus. If this were true, mankind would not have invented weapons.

The simple truth is that the more size difference, the more skill required to deal with them, and by alot. Bruce was only around 135. There were many many people above that at bruce's time.

I would imagine sugar ray leanard taking him apart quickly.

Ali would have no problem with him (bruce even admitted this).

any artist that trained in weapons.

It is not his martial arts ability that he should be respected for most, but his training ideas that he contributed, such as advocating full contact sparring with the head as a target. This was not done much before bruce in martial arts (except boxing of course).

Answer 5

I respect Bruce Lee's intellectual contributions to the martial arts. His charisma and excitement definitely put a "face" on something that we all love and enjoy.

However, I wish people would drop this kinds of stupid line of questioning. It's ridiculous. Besides the fact it really doesn't matter. People always forget that Bruce Lee DIED in his 30's. I mean no disrespect but a large part of martial arts is to LIVE. We train to survive conflicts. SURVIVE. That is the goal of every martial art. Part of being great is knowing your limitations what you can and can't do and working with it. We learn our bodies what we are and are not capable of, sure we push ourselves but not to a point of stupidity. I don't know what Bruce Lee died from and really I don't care all that much. I have read about it enough and I know this. Whether from drug overdose, overwork, allergic reaction, whatever.. Bruce lee could not survive the conflict with himself. He killed himself quite early in his life by not knowing himself. That is not an instructor I want to follow blindly or put on a pedestal. Chuck Norris trained with Bruce Lee. Chuck has done more for the martial arts than Bruce Lee did and he's still alive doing it. He'll be doing more for the martial arts (and bowflex) in the future I'm sure. Whether Norris could have whipped Bruce lee or not doesn't really matter. Norris outlasted him, and that's the whole point of what we do. To be the last one standing.

Answer 6

Why is martial arts about the only sport where the frontman is a guy that's been dead 30+ years? Not in basketball, not in baseball, not in football. That's sad. Yes, he WAS great, but let's move on already!

To the best of my knowledge (I could be wrong), Bruce Lee never competed in the ring. He made some good movies with the usual camera and editing tricks we have come to expect in chinese martial arts films, but he would not actually fight against the best of his day and prove how great he really was.

Answer 7

The right answer would be NOBODY. But there are so many "comparables" within the martial arts world you would be surprised. Separating the "wannabes" from the true martial artists is another task, so in short the one martial artist that would be classified as "The Best" right now would be Tony Jaa. Check him out in The Protector, Directed by Quentin Tarantino. Jet-Li is another great martial artist that easily could be called "The Best" but my opinion is that Tony Jaa still has a bright future ahead of him because he has only a handfull of movies to watch whereas Jet-Li has hundreds.

Answer 8

NO ONE.Bruce Lee can kick your ***.Sayng this to anyone who disagrees that Bruce Lee is not the best

Answer 9

Grand Master William C.C. Chen

Answer 10

Bruce Lee would literally be disassembled by any of the ufc or pride fighters today due to the fact that the sport has evolved so incredibly.