Re: Interesting Bruce Lee short clip.

Originally Posted by
Howlin Mad Missy

Originally Posted by
Doot
Bruce Lee is awesome.
Thoughts on how he would compete with todays fighters(UFC)?
There is a clip with maybe Bas Rutten where he says if Lee came back to life right now - of course he would lose - give him a year to learn/adjust then sure.
He was athletic and smart. Question is why would he want to? JKD is (very) basically about kicking you in the nuts and running off kinda of martial art not a 'sport' martial art like MMA
Back when UFC starting airing on PPV, there was another PPV called "Shootwrestling"... what it was was UWFi (IIRC, winner was decided beforehand, but almost anything goes in the fight, until the fighters ended the fight with the predetermined winner winning). One of the fighters was a wrestler, Gary Albright, and he would get in front of the camera and say words to the effect of "Bring Bruce Lee back from the dead and I'll beat him".
He was:
Billed height6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)Billed weight353 lb (160 kg)
and his signature move was a full-nelson suplex.
Albright vs Gene Lydick
As much of a Bruce Lee fan I am, if he competed in MMA today with no weight divisions, it would be tough... even if he had time to train and had the grappling skills needed to make it in today's MMA. If we are talking MMA back when UFC first started, I think he would have a good chance.
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