How would Bruce Lee, at his peak, fare in the UFC?

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Bruce Lee was the best martial artist of his time (maybe of all-time). In 2004 Dana White credited him as the "father of mixed martial arts". His Jeet Kune Do style was fast, powerful, based on interception.

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The notion of cross-training in Jeet Kune Do is similar to the practice of mixed martial arts (MMA). Many consider Jeet Kune Do to be the precursor of MMA because of its syncretic nature. This is particularly the case with respect to the JKD "Combat Ranges". A JKD student is expected to learn various combat systems within each combat range (kicking, punching, trapping and grappling), and thus to be effective in all of them.
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So, as the title says, how would he fare today against current UFC fighters? MMA champions like St-Pierre, Silva...
 
My Bruce Lee knowledge only goes as far as Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, but according to that he would get his back broken.
 
jl4855 said:
bruce would destroy ufc
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He would get outclassed on the ground. How much did he weigh? Google says he walked around at 160. So he would have to cut to 155 or 145. No way he would make it in either of those classes.
 
i'm sorry, but i refuse to even entertain the possibility that bruce fucking lee would ever lose a fight, under any circumstances.
 
Bruce Lee had a mind, body, and reflexes that martial artists to this day envy. He would destroy his weight class.

The tragedy would be that an artist like Bruce Lee would subject himself to something like the UFC and attach himself to it in any way.
 
Isn't UFC that show where two guys start hugging, fall to the ground and start punching each other in the kidneys? I think he'd do ok against them.
 
Bruce Lee was 160?!? I heard he was more like 130. Don't know where I heard that 130 number though. Guy didn't have an ounce of fat on him.

In his own weight class I think he'd fair pretty damn well.

I would have loved to see him now in his old age. Man was such a badass.
 
It would look like he took a beating on the ground, but then his opponent would get up, laugh at Bruce Lee and walk away. Then, one week later, as he orders a latte, BAM! DIM MAK MOTHERFUCKER!
 
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He would get outclassed on the ground. How much did he weigh? Google says he walked around at 160. So he would have to cut to 155 or 145. No way he would make it in either of those classes.
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Oh I thought he was lighter than that...Yeah he'd have problems
 
John Dunbar said:
i'm sorry, but i refuse to even entertain the possibility that bruce fucking lee would ever lose a fight, under any circumstances.
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He'd be trained differently as an all around fighter and would probably do quite well.
Knowing what we know now about fitness he'd also be more capable.
 
The UFC is very jiu-jitsu based now, I have no idea how good Bruce Lee is on the ground. His weight wouldn't matter though. Royce Gracie dominated for 2 years against much larger opponents because his technique was far superior.
 
If you took a man of Bruce Lee's ability and gave him access to today's techniques, he'd dominate in whatever weight class he wanted. People forget that he was unnaturally fast and he hit very, very hard. Techniques are more advanced today, but he'd learn them, perfect them, and probably improve upon them just as he did back then.
 
most of these ppl need to take off their rose colored sun glasses and get real, bruce would get taken down and beaten on for 3 rounds if not subbed, hell i'm not so sure he'd even be able to win a fight standing when you factor in dirty boxing, MT clinch, cage n pray tactics, and the like.

and karate fighters faired horribly in the original or early UFC tournaments.

this thread is completely retarded.
 
He has sick striking, speed and endurance, but eventually, he would be taken down and submitted. This would force him to learn BJJ, and when he does....look out. The man 's self motivation was amazing and I'm sure he will learn from any and all of his mistakes.
 
yacobod said:
most of these ppl need to take off their rose colored sun glasses and get real, bruce would get taken down and beaten on for 3 rounds if not subbed, hell i'm not so sure he'd even be able to win a fight standing when you factor in dirty boxing, MT clinch, cage n pray tactics, and the like.

and karate fighters faired horribly in the original or early UFC tournaments.

this thread is completely retarded.
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He wasn't a karate fighter. He was a student of the best techniques. Don't think that he wouldn't have pieced together the best tactics and perfected them. Also, if he gets a couple of clean shots off on you, you're done. According to people who fought him, his strikes were unmatched.
 
Not only would Bruce Lee KO anybody he fought, he would simultaneously KO all of the people in this thread who doubted him.
 
According to the philosophy of JKD, Bruce would incorporate whatever dominate fighting/grappling style that's out today, perfect it, and still kick ass.
 
I mean, Bruce can do that 1 inch punch shit. And all that UFC does is hug around in the ground and smack each other. Soooooo
 
Jeff-DSA said:
He wasn't a karate fighter. He was a student of the best techniques. Don't think that he wouldn't have pieced together the best tactics and perfected them. Also, if he gets a couple of clean shots off on you, you're done. According to people who fought him, his strikes were unmatched.
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this is about as dumb as batman and prep time
 
yacobod said:
this is about as dumb as batman and prep time
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So you think he'd not try to improve his style? Come on, these guys get tons of time between matches to prepare and train. Bruce Lee wouldn't have just sat there getting his crane kick down.
 
Jeff-DSA said:
If you took a man of Bruce Lee's ability and gave him access to today's techniques, he'd dominate in whatever weight class he wanted. People forget that he was unnaturally fast and he hit very, very hard. Techniques are more advanced today, but he'd learn them, perfect them, and probably improve upon them just as he did back then.
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I totally agree, and I think that people are discounting this probability.
 
I dont really like how much of the UFC matches come down to grappling. Dont get me wrong Bruce Lee would have probably perfected that side of fighting but im sort of glad we remember him for his striking ability and we dont think of him as a grappler.
 
Jeff-DSA said:
So you think he'd not try to improve his style? Come on, these guys get tons of time between matches to prepare and train. Bruce Lee wouldn't have just sat there getting his crane kick down.
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I can't tell if you're overestimating Bruce Lee's fighting ability or if you're not giving modern day fighters enough credit. It's one or the other though.

This whole thread feels like it's a step away from talking about chi and pressure point death strikes.
 
Jeff-DSA said:
So you think he'd not try to improve his style? Come on, these guys get tons of time between matches to prepare and train. Bruce Lee wouldn't have just sat there getting his crane kick down.
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you can't develop world class wrestling or submissions/sub-defense between matches, obviously his striking would be good, but he would have huge holes in his game, usually 1 dimensional fighters don't fare very well in mma.
 
dream said:
I can't tell if you're overestimating Bruce Lee's fighting ability or if you're not giving modern day fighters enough credit. It's one or the other though.

This whole thread feels like it's a step away from talking about chi and pressure point death strikes.
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Yeah, modern fighters would dominate people from Bruce Lee's era, but if you brought Bruce Lee to our time he'd have access to the same techniques, training equipment, and supplements as our present day fighters. He was a freak that was built to destroy people in hand to hand combat. He'd only be that much more impressive today.
 
I saw a similar question posted to Chuck Norris a number of years back on a late night talk show. Who would win in a fight between him and Bruce Lee back in the day. Chuck said that he trained with Bruce, they were friendly, and enjoyed exchanging ideas, but at the time, Chuck was the world full contact Karate champion. He said that as much as he respected Bruce as an artist and his philosophy on MA, he was never in the ring for real fighting and his training was very different. He didn't quite come out and say it, but the indication was that Chuck would have handled him fairly easily in the ring.

Chcuk would also get owned by todays UFC fighters.
 
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