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Bruce lee vs Mohamed ali boxing mach
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redsamurai
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gjohnson5 said:
I agree that Lee "may" have been alot of hype.........but I'd still take someone who was proficient with kicks over a straight boxer........even if he was bigger. Lee could just unload on Ali with his kicks if Ali isn't allowed to take him down. And my source about Chan was from an interview with the man himself...........maybe I'm mistaken.........but I thought he said he learned his craft from theatre work.
Powerbuilder333
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Agreed.gjohnson5 said:
cipherking
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you guys went away from the question. lol its a boxing match not street fighting. I read that bruce learned his punching from ali. so with that being said theres no way he out boxes ali.
Ali all the way. The only way Bruce Lee makes it out of the first round is strapped to a stretcher. You could take off Lee's gloves, let him kick, and arm him with brass knuckles and the result is still the same.
Ali took hits from Sonny Liston, George Foreman, and Ernie Shavers. There's no way Bruce Lee is hitting harder than either of those guys even weilding a baseball bat let alone with an 'inch punch' or side kick.
Ali's reach was probably longer than Lee's leg. Lee was an actor. He may have been ripped, he may have been fast, he may have been the god of wing chun, but he was an actor and not a combat athlete. He was tiny and a cokehead. He couldn't shoot, his subs were primitive at best even in his book. Just because he could draw pictures of subs doesn't mean he could effectively apply them in combat against a moving, fighting target. Antonio Inoki who was a bonafide shootwrestler at 6'3" and 225 pounds, couldn't take Ali down when Ali was way, way past his prime.
Next you'll be telling me Jean Claude Van Damme can KO Fedor because he beat Chong Li in Bloodsport.
Ali took hits from Sonny Liston, George Foreman, and Ernie Shavers. There's no way Bruce Lee is hitting harder than either of those guys even weilding a baseball bat let alone with an 'inch punch' or side kick.
Ali's reach was probably longer than Lee's leg. Lee was an actor. He may have been ripped, he may have been fast, he may have been the god of wing chun, but he was an actor and not a combat athlete. He was tiny and a cokehead. He couldn't shoot, his subs were primitive at best even in his book. Just because he could draw pictures of subs doesn't mean he could effectively apply them in combat against a moving, fighting target. Antonio Inoki who was a bonafide shootwrestler at 6'3" and 225 pounds, couldn't take Ali down when Ali was way, way past his prime.
Next you'll be telling me Jean Claude Van Damme can KO Fedor because he beat Chong Li in Bloodsport.
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gjohnson5 said:
But Bruce Lee beat up Bolo Yeung in "Enter The Dragon" and that was when Yeung was in his prime. The real superfight is between Bruce Lee and Jean Claude Van Damme. Didn't Muhammed Ali beat up Superman in 1978 according to DC Comics? This is getting tougher and tougher to call.
redsamurai
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well, I'm not convinced ali could step into an MMA ring nowadays and do damage to anyone. He was a great fighter.........he knew the rules of boxing and worked inside them better than anyone. But could he knock out rampage shooting in on him? What would happen if he fought Fedor? I understand all these guys are bigger than Lee ever was.........but there is something to be said that boxing inside a ring is different than boxing in a street fight.
