Bruce Lee sucks!!

[gymnutt]

This is an interesting question, I think Bruce Lee was a martial artist far before he was a movie actor. With that said what makes a superior fighter? I believe well rounded training, conditioning, a fighters indomnitable spirit, and athleticism. The first two traits can be cultivated, however the second two are either present or lacking. Bruce definately had the training-he wrote a highly technical book; Tao of Jeet Kune do which was far ahead of it's time, which demonstrates physical and anatomical positioning and movements and there efficiency. He is well known for his conditioning practices which is inherent to chinese boxing. As far as a fighters spirit-it's hard to say.. but, if as Super Sayen said he would defend his presence with scrappers on the movie sets, then it definately lends credance to his spirit. As far as athleticism, watch bruce in his movies and documentary footage; the speed and accuracy in which he strikes and traps in insane. On set he would often have to slow down the speed of his strikes so that the camera could capture his movements so that viewers could see his techniques-sounds like bs but a lot of guys are truly that quick.
With this said, I think he is a top calibre martial artist and a fighter and became such at a young age, which is uncommon to develop skills so fast. One reason many highly skilled artist do not enter nhb and kickboxing competitions is that the conditioning and competition is absolutely brutal to the body. Top martial artist will develop their skills after twenty or thirty years of practice. The timeline for martial artist and prize fighters is very different. Most top fighters are in their twenties or early thirties. Most pro thai boxers don't last more than five years on the circuit; if they did they'd be cripples. I think Bruce Lee could compete in todays nhb competition in his weight class were he still young. Would he be good? yes. The best? No one is the best, everyone has a bad day when the competition is thick and the purse is full. The UFC and Pride is full phenomanal talent which on any given day. Any top fighter can lose any day of the week.

[crag]

Bruce lee in his weight division in MMA would do okay I think. He knew what was what about fighting, and also new what he was putting on the big screen was just about show biz.

Of course he could not tangle with heavyweights in the UFC.He is not superman at 135.

However something most people may be missing with MMA though, is that it's entire game would change with a few less rules.

Such as including Eye strikes, groin strikes and biting.

For example with groin grabs and biting the MMA and BJJ guard would become a lot rarer, since you would not want to lay about with your legs around some guy who can just reach down and get a handful of nuts everytime.

Also a quick eyestriker or ball kicking dude like Bruce may win a lot more before it even went to the ground.

[Heywood Jablome]

Bruce lee in his weight division in MMA would do okay I think. He knew what was what about fighting, and also new what he was putting on the big screen was just about show biz.

Of course he could not tangle with heavyweights in the UFC.He is not superman at 135.

However something most people may be missing with MMA though, is that it's entire game would change with a few less rules.

Such as including Eye strikes, groin strikes and biting.

For example with groin grabs and biting the MMA and BJJ guard would become a lot rarer, since you would not want to lay about with your legs around some guy who can just reach down and get a handful of nuts everytime.

Also a quick eyestriker or ball kicking dude like Bruce may win a lot more before it even went to the ground.

In the first 4 UFC's groin strikes were legal. Didn't matter, grappling arts still dominated.

The guard is becoming less prevalent today in MMA simply because more people study BJJ and submissions, making it more difficult to submit people.

My question again is how many people practice eye strikes on a live resisting human? I doubt any do because they wouldn't have any training partners. Listen a boxer throws hundreds sometimes thousands of punches on a given day - both on a heavy bag and on live training partners. A Boxer with years and years of practice still doesn't have the pinpoint accuracy to hit a trained resisting fighter when and where he wants to at will. Most times they have to throw many punches and combinations to inflict the damage they want. So how can one reasonably expect that a guy that doesn't get to practive eye strikes will be that much more accurate than a boxer who practices throwing punches with accuracy for hours per day?

The answer is you can't. Also if these people could strike an area as samll as the eye with pimpoint accuracy why couldn't they hit any fighter at any time flush on the chin which is a greater surface area? That's because the whole arguement is BS!

If you expand the rules and let a MMA'er eye gouge then the MMA'er will be able to eye gouge more consistenly because they'll be applying the technique from a superior position. If you're under my side control and you try to poke my eye out I'm going to take your arm and break it. But if you're under my mount and I decide to poke your eyes out I'm going to.

Before anyone goes any further with this eye gouging/groin strike arguement see if you can comprehend the points I've made. I think if you look at it honestly you'll see what I'm trying to say.