First of all, Bruce Lee never fought one karate blackbelt in competition or on the street.
A guy like Joe Lewis (not the boxer, the karate expert) would have destroyed him.
Bruce Lee by all accounts had trouble beating some Gong Fu guy in a streetfight,
and some say Lee didn't even win.
And then what? The Bruce Lee myth would have been destroyed.
I don't believe in myths or hype; I believe in what has been proven to work.
The only record of Bruce Lee's fights are some wins people claimed he scored over guys that hopped his backyard fence.
Guys like Chuck Norris and Joe Lewis, would easily beat Bruce Lee.
They actually fought people and experienced fractured jaws and broken bones.
Lee was an actor first, a fighter second.
His applied fighting ability is entirely suspect.
EVERY MMA fighter cross-trains to some degree, but the core of Randy's style is Greco-Roman wrestling.
The core of Georges Saint Pierres style is Karate.
The core of Liddel's training is Kempo Karate
The core of Fedor's training is Sambo.
Everything else is supplemental.
They learn some Brasilian Jiu-Jitsu to complement their style,
but no to the degree of proficiency as their core style.
For example, Randy would do very well in a Greco-Roman tournament;
in a Jiu-Jitsu tournament he would be put in some hold using the Gi that he's never heard of.
His Jiu-Jitsu skills are limited. They compliment his Greco-Roman and that's it.
*The more you know the better off you are.
*The stronger you are the better off you are.
And now you know!
If you think Bruce Lee was fast, watch 2:50 of this Joe Lewis point match and don't blink. Joe was a lot heavier than Lee too:
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