Bruce lee in his prime would he last in the UFC / MMA with todays fighters?

Answer 1

For anyone that might say that he was just an actor....THAT'S A LOAD OF HORSE SH**! Bruce was just as much of a innovative martial art legend as the Gracie family. Given the speed, strength, skill, etc of Bruce, he would have been a very tough Lightweight fighter. The man was a phenomenon when it came to martial arts. With his determination and respect for other fighters, if he had a fight in the UFC, he would have prepared himself to perfection and would take anyone out and be a long running champ.

Answer 2

Bruce Lee never competed and has never had one documented real fight. The only one that apparently took place was behind closed doors with only a few students as witnesses and no cameras. Bruce said he beat the guy up. Mean while neither fighter had a mark on them and the other guy then said ok lets fight in public and Bruce declined.
He was also too small to fight at lightweight he was only 5'7" and 140 lbs. He had no grapling training and no real striking training other than a year on the boxing team in highschool. It was proven time and time again fighters with only one dicipline do not go far in the MMA world. Gracie proved that for 4 years running. Bruce was very fit, strong for a man his size and fast. But he never had to fight anyone to prove his skills. So will I say he would get his *** handed to him. No... but I know that if he walked into a fight today against a guy like BJ Penn, Jens Pulver or even Sean Sherk. He would not like the outcome.
So rather than focusing on his movies and fan sites go and actually research the mans life and history. You might find out a thing or two and come to the conclusion he was not the best. He was not a fighter. And he is dead so will never be able to hold up to all these expectations you put on him.
He was merely the first man to bring Kung Fu movies, that image and lifestyle to the public eye. He started making movies as a baby. And by the time he died he had acted in or directed in over 30 movies and TV shows. Doesn't sound like a side project to me.
Oh and an interesting side note. His style Jeet Kun Do. Was copywriten and only certain people are legaly alowed to teach it. So all these schools that claim to teach it are basically stealing his ideas and potentially have no training in it themselfs. Or are teaching something else and calling it JKD. Again don't take my word for it do your own research as I have.
Legend yes, worthy of praise and recognition yes. But not as a fighter or as the greates martial artist who ever lived. But as the man to revolutionized the way Americans looked at Martial arts and film. Well part of the reason anyways

Answer 3

As someone who started doing martial arts prior to the Bruce Lee and Kung Fu era I think I can give you a good answer. Bruce Lee was an innovator as well as a super athlete. He believed in taking from whatever system to use for his own use what he found to be effective. Back then there was only traditional martial arts and this kind of philosophy was not widely embraced or accepted. Secondly he made use of a wide variety of training tools and methods to enhance his athletic and martial arts skills. Once he showed that it worked the the traditional stylists liked him even less because he literally blew some very old ways of thinking out the door. I have to believe that anyone that was that much of an innovator and had the ability to take and learn and adapt those things for his own use like he did could not do that in martial arts today. He would have figured out what the strikers and the grapplers/jiu-jutsu guys have figured out and that is that they have to improve their wrestling and submission skills or their striking and kicking skills if they want to be competitive in mixed martial arts.

Answer 4

Bruce Lee was always on the look out for new competition. Hell yes he wouldve joined MMA. And he wouldve dominated too. Because you can see Matt Hughes shoot in and you can see Chuck Liddel going for a kick...but Bruce Lee would be ten feet away from you and he would all of a sudden be up in your face and knock you back about fifteen feet and nobody even saw him move. Nobody would come close to a stand up. What about ground game? Do you think anybody could keep him down? That man benched 600 pounds every day. Im not saying its impossible, but very improbable

Answer 5

The way mma is set up is that any one can take you out on any given night with the right game plan ie. Serra and Gonzaga. So I think realistically Bruce would be a competitive fighter in his weight class, but no man is unbeatable, but he would have never fought in the UFC because most likely you would not fight if you got paid millions to make movies and pretend to fight and the UFC has too many rules for him.

Answer 6

No one in the documented history of man could even begin to content with the sheer handspeed of Bruce Lee. A prime Bruce Lee would rightfully consider MMA?UFC below him. Don't get me wrong, I love MMA.

Answer 7

In his prime he would have no problem defeating any UFC or MMA. I am sure he would have been all over the UFC and MMA to show off his Jeet Kune Do. And yes, he did study grappling as part of his training, and could defend himself quite nicely against wrestlers.

Answer 8

yes i haven't seen a mma fighter on his level.
if he was in ufc 1 Gracie would of been out and if he was fighting today he would be the champ hands down his speed is on another level his kick are so much better then any mma fighter so the bottom line is for the people who think he was fake don't know much about martial arts

Answer 9

If you look at the first fight scene of Enter The Dragon when he was fighting Sammo he finished the fight with a jugi gatame (arm lock). He was doing MMA before most of these clowns in the UFC were even born. In answer to your question. He would clean house.

Answer 10

JUDOKA answered through his "anus" (I can't write the other word here).
There is, and was proof. Just on the set of "Enter the Dragon" there were challenges from guys wanting to fight him, and called him out. Proof, the director and producer of the movie Robert Clouse.
Just ask Jackie Chan, he was there, and in the movie. Chan got his neck broken by Lee in the under ground cave(yes I know it was a movie). His daughter and former wife have a web site. Go ask there if you don't believe me.
bruceleefoundation.com