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Bruce lee vs Mohamed ali boxing mach
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acneman
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gjohnson5 said:
ahhhh
sup G
well here goes
do you need years of structured training to be a martial artist???
carlos newton was once introed in the ufc as a master of dragonball jiu jitsu!!is he a pussy? not! even now people are introed as free style fighters. who did they train with?? did they get a certification?
bruce, whatever you believe about his training or abilities, will be remembered for the creation of JKD.
he was mixed martial arts before MMA was cool.
he revolutionized martial arts by trancending style.
he trained with boxers, wrestlers, escrima guys, and more and incoporated thier skills into JKD.
could bruce lee beat ali in a boxing match???
i would say he has about as much chance in that fantasy world as he would of beating bobby fisher in chess.
to say none.
ok how about a street fight??
who cares.
they were both great in thier own way.
both will be remembered.
ok guys take your shots. im listening
redsamurai
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gjohnson5 said:
If I recall this shitty fight..........didn't Kimbo shoot in on Mercer and ground and pound him?
acneman said:
When Carlos Newton first started fighting, he got his ass whipped by a nobody named Jean Rivera or something like that. A lot of the freestyle fighters train with some of the top flight coaches and are already established in some combat sport.
The difference between someone like Bruce Lee and Carlos Newton is Carlos Newton trains like a combat athlete. The assumption is also that Bruce Lee truly cross trained, which from what I can gather he either sucked at grappling or eschewed it for flashier strikes. Carlos Newton gets repeatedly hit, twisted, and hurt in training. You can drill all the technique you want, fight in low impact competitions, but the whole world changes when someone hits you with bad intentions and can do it over and over again. Some men will freeze, some men will run, some men will automatically strike back, some men will modify strategy to compensate for your strikes to nullify them (ring generals). In most combat sports, when things aren't going according to plan you cannot yell, "CUT!".
I don't think in general I have anything I disagree with you about though.
Saintinistic
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cipherking said:
true. as soon as you limit a fighters style you place him/her at a disadvantage.
like fighting a Muay Thai fighter with Judo only rules against a Judo exponent. not fair.
but anything goes it would be fun to watch. a corpse and a shaky old guy. how "South Park" is that!
You cannot compare Lee to Ali, nor can you compare any of them to today's MMA fighters. Each fighting style is unique.
druncanwaria
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Im sure ali being a boxer would have had his fair share of fights outside the ring before possibly even during his career so even if it was a mma fight i dont think bruce would give it to him like some people are thinking.
plus ali is a heavy weight. What do u think the weight class difference is there? im guessin at least AT LEAST 15kgs (33lbs) think about how much harder bruce would have to fight if the weight was that different....
To answer the question id say ALI
plus ali is a heavy weight. What do u think the weight class difference is there? im guessin at least AT LEAST 15kgs (33lbs) think about how much harder bruce would have to fight if the weight was that different....
To answer the question id say ALI
druncanwaria said:
Bruce Lee was around 5'7" and 135# maximum.
