Was Bruce Lee as good in real life situaion as he was in his movies? Was there any record of his street fight?

Answer 1

I heard in a documentary he got in quite a lot of street fights, especially while working in Hong Kong. What would happen is a whole bunch of guys figured he was the top gun to beat and they were all vying for the honor of defeating him. As the story goes, he never lost.
Once, eye-witnesses report he was just relaxing in his yard when a guy climbed the fence to challenge him. So Bruce got so mad he just lunged right at him without giving him time to prepare and did the one-inch, punch, which sent him reeling something like 20 feet away, and that was that.
Of course, all great names of the history of the martial arts have all sorts of stories about them, so who knows? Some of it is probably exaggerated, but they're still pretty entertaining.

Answer 2

No martial arts hero can be as good as he or she is depicted in the movies. The films where Bruce was able to do his own choreography are more realistic than most, but they're still hyperbole and art.

But Bruce truly was a master martial artist and he did have experience in street fighting (which were evidently somewhat more formal in Hong Kong than those we know here, the sites conflict in details). In developing Jeet Kune Do (and later moving beyond it) he borrowed heavily from all the fighting arts, Western and Eastern. Nor did he entirely ignore the importance of grappling. It is fairly well recorded that he was in world class shape and amazingly quick. Chuck Norris studied under him, as well as many other top notch martial artists. He was also revolutionary in introducing full contact sparring to training and for teaching non-Asians.

Was he one of the best? We can never know for sure, but all the evidence says it is likely.

Answer 3

Bruce was a crazy man. He doesn't have a fight rec because his fights were not sanctioned mostly. Just duels more like.

He did whoop a certain british boxer back when he was a chunner. Not a terribly well known one but with boxing rules.

Chinese had a funny way of doing duels back in the day. If you got your **** whooped, you'd not have an actual fight record but you'd just lose credibility as a fighter and a martial arts master always had to fight challengers to be able to keep a school in business.

There was one dude that split off from shito ryu named teruo hayashi that went around beating up people from different schools. The practice is called Dojo Yaburi.

See? traditionalish dudes say, "screw fight recs and tournaments. too many rules and refs and docs and cops. We'll have duels where only the participants decide where when and how. THEN we'll know who's best."

Answer 4

heres how it is, imma tell you both sides.

pro bruce lee
people believe he was the best fighter of all time. there is no offical record of any sanctioned matches because he did not partake in any, but he did have a reputation for winning in street fights. bruce lee was so fast that he had to slow down to be captured on film, he's credited as starting mixed martial arts and using only what works for you in a fight(jeet kune do), he had incredible power(talks of being able to destroy i think 100lb punching bag with a side kick, his one inch punch knocking people back), his premature death contributed to his legend because there is no way of dissproving his skill and makes for hyping him up

anti bruce lee
since he did not participate in any sanctioned fights all his wins are just hearsay and people could have made up rumors to boost bruce lees image and find a way to profit from this. bruce lee might have been great for his time because not many people crosstrained like him but now its common in mma so he wouldnt be anything special to todays fighters

for me im somewhere inbetween

i am a little skeptical because i havent seen him actually fight and i've only seen one short sparring clip against someone. but i dont think that many people would conspire in bruce's favor saying that he beat their @$$es. if you look at his movies/demos you can tell he obviously knows what hes doing hes no clown he has great form, technique, speed, ect and he did take his training seriously. but like i said to accurately gauge his fighting abilities i would need to see him FIGHT, spar, something....

long story short i think bruce would have been a pretty good fighter however just not the unstoppable god some people make him out to be

Answer 5

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Answer 6

To the guy above- all your articles come from biased sources- the bruce lee homepage might be a good place to find the sparring videoclip, but not unbiased info.

basically c-note nailed much of the points.

except that BRUCE LEE HIMSELF ADMITS THAT MUHAMMAD ALI WOULD HAVE KICKED HIS ***!

Bruce lee studied muhammad alis fight moves and that is where he got many ideas from. from boxing and modified sport fencing.

It certainly wasn't wing chun, he had only 18months of training there.

As for his sparring video, well here it is, not too impressive.
What I like about bruce lee is that he advocated full-contact sparring in an age when it was uncommon to do so outside of many sportative martial arts (boxing, mt, etc.).


http://www.bruce-lee.ws/sparring_demo.html

Answer 7

Yes and no.

Bruce Lee was a phenomenal martial artist. His skills were legendary, not just for show.

His movie career, however, did have a little "help". Some of the scenes in his movies were not shown in "real time" but were sped up to improve his image a little. IMHO - it was not needed, he was great regardless.

Another way to look at it, how many current "Hollywood Martial Artists" don't use some kind of special effect or trick camera angle, or wire attached to the guy getting beaten up?

Answer 8

This is for "squeaky".Don't you ever dare say anything like that again about Bruce Lee.He was one of the greatest Martial artists that ever lived.And no he just wasn't for "show"! If he could hear you now I bet he would come over there and kick your a**.But to answer your "Q",yes he was very for real and effective on the street.And he did get into alot of fights.

Answer 9

He was a multiple championship Kung Fu fighter before getting into the movies and at one tournament beat Chuck Norris to become champion.

In a real fight he'd usually win.

Answer 10

Bruce Lee was a coward that would never compete in full contact martial arts. He was all show.