The Only Footage of Bruce Lee Fighting for Real (1967)

Two years after the release of Quentin Taran­ti­no’s Once Upon a Time in Hol­ly­wood, peo­ple are still argu­ing about its brief por­tray­al of Bruce Lee. Whether it accu­rate­ly rep­re­sent­ed his per­son­al­i­ty is one debate, but much more impor­tant for mar­tial-arts enthu­si­asts is whether it accu­rate­ly rep­re­sent­ed his fight­ing skills. This could eas­i­ly be deter­mined by hold­ing the scene in ques­tion up against footage of the real Bruce Lee in action, but almost no such footage exists. While Lee’s per­for­mances in films like Enter the Drag­on and Game of Death con­tin­ue to win him fans 48 years after his death, their fights — how­ev­er phys­i­cal­ly demand­ing — are, of course, thor­ough­ly chore­o­graphed and rehearsed per­for­mances.

Hence the way, in Once Upon a Time in Hol­ly­wood, Brad Pit­t’s rough-hewn stunt­man Cliff Booth dis­miss­es screen mar­tial artists like Lee as “dancers.” Those are fight­ing words, and indeed a fight ensues, though one meant to get laughs (and to illu­mi­nate the char­ac­ters’ oppos­ing phys­i­cal and emo­tion­al natures) rather than seri­ous­ly to recre­ate a con­test between trained mar­tial artist and sim­ple bruis­er.

As for how Lee han­dled him­self in actu­al fights, we have no sur­viv­ing visu­al evi­dence but the clips above, shot dur­ing a cou­ple of match­es in 1967. The event was the Long Beach Inter­na­tion­al Karate Cham­pi­onships, where three years ear­li­er Lee’s demon­stra­tion of such improb­a­ble phys­i­cal feats as two-fin­ger push-ups and one-inch punch­es got him the atten­tion in the U.S. that led to the role of Kato on The Green Hor­net.

In these 1967 bouts, the now-famous Lee uses the tech­niques of Jeet Kune Do, his own hybrid mar­tial-arts phi­los­o­phy empha­siz­ing use­ful­ness in real-life com­bat. “First he fights Ted Wong, one of his top Jeet Kune Do stu­dents,” says Twist­ed Sifter. “They are alleged­ly wear­ing pro­tec­tive gear because they weren’t allowed to fight with­out them as per Cal­i­for­nia state reg­u­la­tions.” Lee is the one wear­ing the gear with white straps — as if he weren’t iden­ti­fi­able by sheer speed and con­trol alone. Seen today, his fight­ing style in this footage reminds many of mod­ern-day mixed mar­tial arts, a sport that might not come into exis­tence had Lee nev­er pop­u­lar­ized the prac­ti­cal com­bi­na­tion of ele­ments drawn from all fight­ing styles. Whether the man him­self was as arro­gant as Taran­ti­no made him out to be, he must have sus­pect­ed that mar­tial-arts would only be catch­ing up with him half a cen­tu­ry lat­er.

Relat­ed Con­tent:

Bruce Lee’s Only Sur­viv­ing TV Inter­view, 1971: Lost and Now Found

Bruce Lee Audi­tions for The Green Hor­net (1964)

The Phi­los­o­phy of Bruce Lee Gets Explored in a New Pod­cast

The Poet­ry of Bruce Lee: Dis­cov­er the Artis­tic Life of the Mar­tial Arts Icon

Watch 10-Year-Old Bruce Lee in His First Star­ring Role (1950)

Based in Seoul, Col­in Mar­shall writes and broad­casts on cities, lan­guage, and cul­ture. His projects include the Sub­stack newslet­ter Books on Cities, the book The State­less City: a Walk through 21st-Cen­tu­ry Los Ange­les and the video series The City in Cin­e­ma. Fol­low him on Twit­ter at @colinmarshall or on Face­book.


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  • Artimus says:

    fact cor­rec­tion: the spar­ring part­ner in this footage is not Ted Wong.

  • Mark McFarling says:

    Hmm I’ve seen this footage before. When I watch it in not very impressed. That could be me in there. Then I have to remem­ber that he died before he was 30. Also back then as it is often today. You could watch some­one spar and know what art they did, as well as who the instruc­tors was. Also this is a light con­tact spar­ring match, not a fight. It amus­es me how often peo­ple get the 2 con­fused. Match­es are not fights they are con­tests with rules. This being said, I have stud­ied JKD and learned the JKD front punch from Joe Lewis in a 2 hour sem­i­nar. I have used this tech­nique many times in spar­ring match­es as well as in real alter­ca­tions and it has done me well in both.

  • Tony Leite says:

    Bruce Lee was the best. See how he hard­ly exerts him­self to put oppo­nent down.And those head shots with­out pro­tec­tive head gear would have cer­tain­ly done some seri­ous dam­age.

  • Biff Tannon says:

    You’re full of it. I seri­ous­ly doubt you used these skills in a real com­bat sit­u­a­tion. Full of it. You are a mas­ter of bs.

  • Enos says:

    Just imag­ine a thug.bought tick­et’s to a con­cert and that thug talk­ing tough I wish a moth­er f her be sit­ting my seats I paid for hon­ey I wish I catch some­one in our seats so she says that’s right my man don’t no crap from no one so final­ly find their seats guess who’s sit­ting their seats BRUCE LEE SO WHAT DOES THE WIFE SAY HONEY YOU GOT YOUR WISH SOMEONE IS SITTING IN OUR SEATS HE TELLS HIS WIFE SHUT UP LETS GET THOSE OTHER SEATS FARTHER DOWN

  • robert Klopp says:

    Obvi­ous that Lee was a visu­al per­former. I’ve been in awe of his com­plete visu­al and sen­sate focus offered on his movie forum. I don’t know whether or for the good of it he was an hon­est world beat­er of mar­tial arts. He was very intense in scene and likened to a unbeat­able dragon.so, no oth­er mar­tial artist has enam­ored me to such an extant as he did in his movies and books devot­ed to his art. Thanks, Bruce Lee, for being a great actor and stun­ning mar­tial artist.

  • DC says:

    Quentin Taran­ti­no is class­less ass­hole. He did not have to por­tray a leg­end like Bruce Lee in a such a mock­ery type fash­ion. He also said Bruce Lee was cocky and arro­gant in real life and I dis­agree. Bruce Lee as an Asian man look­ing for an act­ing role in Hol­ly­wood in the 1960’s and 70’s had to work 10x as hard and be con­fi­dent as hell to land a role. He could­n’t be meek, pas­sive and lack­ing in any con­fi­dence. Muham­mad Ali was also an extreme­ly con­fi­dent per­son but Quentin would nev­er mock Ali or ever call Ali arro­gant! So why Bruce Lee, a world wide leg­end. You be the judge.

  • James Ching says:

    First of all, as a fel­low mar­tial artist with over 30 years of train­ing under the belt and mas­tery of 5 styles in Kung­fu, I can tell this.
    1. This was an exhi­bi­tion spar­ring match. Not a real fight.
    2. Bruce is indeed tak­ing it easy, com­pare it to footage of actu­al­ly spar­ring with his stu­dents, he is more engag­ing on the offense than in this exhi­bi­tion.
    3. Nonetheless…these head blows seem to real­ly affect his “oppo­nent” no doubt the hit is hard­er than we can imag­ine.
    4. Last of all…everybody who calls Bruce a show­man, you’re only par­tial­ly right. Yes he was a show­man but mar­tial arts wise…he was a real street­fight­er, that’s how he end­ed up in the States in the 1st place. He had to flee Hong Kong after he put the gov­er­nor’s nephew in the hos­pi­tal in a street­fight.
    5. The basis for his Jeet Kune Do is Wing Chun, which is a real­ly prag­mat­ic and effec­tive mar­tial arts form, very direct and straight­for­ward, as a wing Chun prac­ti­tion­er I can attest to that but feel free to look it up.

  • eddietnycperrisca says:

    I love how peo­ple like pull each oth­er down and degrade each oth­er. Well I have a Bruce Lee fan and he was good at what he did. Now that being said, Mar­tial Arts is use­less these days. For one rea­son and only one, if you approach me with box­ing, street fight­er, or mar­tial arts. I’ll take out my Glock 17 and you bet­ter hope that I don’t have 20 round clip because I can pump 7 rounds in you in under 5 sec­onds. You bet­ter hope that I dont emp­ty the clip in you then take out the 17 round clip. So, again why are we argu­ing about a per­son that died when I was 1? Includ­ing the use­less mar­tial arts.

  • Bay young, sue, says:

    A true master,would not total­ly con­front a per­son with a gun at a dis­tance. But ‚in close con­fronta­tion he would confront,him,he would use a quick dis­trac­tion, and fin­ish him with in a sec­ond, and dis­able him or ter­mi­nate him.I would.If know one ever faut a mas­ter in any con­flict, you don’t no shit.

  • Michael Mathews sr says:

    I love all of Bruce Lee movie’s know mat­ter which one’s

  • Justin Atilano says:

    So Then Is It Safe To Say..That..Said Mr.Ted Wong,Is In Fact Mr. Ted WRONG!!!!!

  • Seth says:

    Spo­ken like a true idiot. It is peo­ple like you that can find a prob­lem in art. I have prac­ticed mar­tial arts and I am an Army com­bat vet­er­an so I feel more than qual­i­fied to answer this. Mar­tial arts are not about who the tough­est moron in the block is. A true mar­tial artist will not fight unless giv­en no choice. Instead they will find a way not to fight. Bruce Lee was an artist and was at the top of his art and sport. So what would hap­pen if your trusty Glock jammed or your aim is not as good as your ego? Any­one who goes into a fight with only one weapon is a fool. Mar­tial arts are also about dis­ci­pline, about respect, and hon­or some­thing whol­ly lack­ing in today’s world.

  • Victor says:

    Seth,

    Very good analy­sis I agree with you total­ly about Bruce Lee he was def­i­nite­ly a inno­va­tor and ahead of his time.

  • Angelo says:

    What the direc­tor did on the movie with Brad Pitt as an actor it was offen­sive and dis­re­spect­ful Bruce Lee was not onot only an actor but he was a real stain of course they don’t have very much evi­dence but a man who trained like that the way he trained he trained he makes you think and make you make you say wow this guy can do this how pow­er­ful he can be in real life that is only an evi­dence But peo­ple envi­ous peo­ple always say things that are con­ve­nient to them because they’re envy Bruce Lee was a good guy

  • Enos says:

    In the enter the drag­on they way he smacked BOB WALL AROUND YOU CAN TELL IT WAS REAL LOOK AT ALL THE GUYS IN THE YELLOW GHEES when Jim Kel­ly & JOHN SAXON DID THEIR PART IN THE TOURNAMENT THET DIDNT GET NO STANDING OVATION LOOK AT HOW IN AHH THEY ARE EVERY TIME HE STRIKES A BLOW AT BOB WALL AND DONT YOU EVEN GET ME STARTED WITH THOSE ALMOST CAN’T SEE THOSE ROUND HOUSE KICKS LEAVING BOB WALLS HEAD I DIDN’T SAY COMING I SAID LEAVING WHEN THE DIRECTOR HAS TO EDIT.YOUR strikes kicks blocks slow it down so we the audi­ence at movies can see what we can’t see in TIME NOW THAT’S FAST TO THIS DAY RIGHT NOW AT HIS AGE OF 79 IF HE WAS A LIVE A M M A COULDN’T GIVE BRUCE LEE A GOID FIGHT HOW ABOUT THIS MY MONEY’S ON THE OLD ELDERLY SENIOR CITIZEN CHINESE MAN ARE WE DONE NOW

  • James Brockton says:

    What are you a teenag­er? What non­sense is this? Now every­one walks around with a Glock and is will­ing to use it like you are. Mar­tial Arts gives you con­fi­dence and the abil­i­ty to defend your­self and keeps you in good shape. Yeah mar­tial arts is so use­less that there’s a whole sport like the UFC for it. Idiot.

  • Quiet Storm says:

    I fought ama­teur wel­ter weight black belt divi­sion in 1976 Long Beach Inter­na­tion­als at the Long Beach are­na. The biggest tour­ney in the US and the same tour­ney where Bruce Lee made famous, along with that spar­ring match. I defeat­ed the num­ber one wel­ter in that divi­sion who won that tour­ney in 1974/75. Bruce along with his fame and movies made mar­tial arts huge at that time even Post death. I thank Bruce for get­ting me involved in this sport, in which i tri­umphed in. So do not talk shit about this man that did so much.

    Jim

  • Quiet Storm says:

    Also, win­ning the divi­sion and tak­ing 1st place at the age of 18, I again cred­it Bruce, for giv­ing me inspi­ra­tion to achieve such a lofty goal.

    Jim

  • Meboi says:

    This is igno­rant.

  • Karel Fodor says:

    Hledáte odpoved.?Je vel­mi zvláštní,že Bruce lee je v každém z nás cítíte tu energii tý ruce nohy technika.Dekujeme Bruce lee,že film on existoval.Musim souh­l­a­sit s Taran­ti­no to nez­na­mená zklamání on musel film co se teh­da sta­lo

  • Daniel Thaler says:

    Bruce Lee was a phe­nom. GREAT MARTIAL ARTIST. GREAT, BUT LET’S NOT FORGET THIS LITTLE THING THEY DO IN MOVIES CALLED EDITING.

  • Jin says:

    @eddietnycperrisca

    Is that before or after you get dis­armed, then what? You would only set your­self up to be killed (By law) because you want­ed to be a chick­en weak­ling and pull out a gun on an unarmed per­son, that says a lot about you!

    Mar­tial Arts teach­es you how to defend your­self, not to go around look­ing for fights, engag­ing in fights is the last thing on the mind of some­one who has learned mar­tial arts in some way!

    It also teach­es you how to neu­tral­ize your oppo­nent, how to attack their spir­it just enough so they know that pick­ing a fight with you was the wrong thing to do!

  • Foxtrot says:

    NOT A REAL FIGHT!!! This was a demo!! The guy who put up this up flat out lied on the title of the footage to get hits. How this is still mak­ing rounds ad a real fight beats me. He did have box­ing fights in HK and a fight with Wong Jack Man. Not caught on video. Don’t believe every­thing you see out there folks.

  • Catrice Moore says:

    Mark Mcfar­lling it’s haters like you that no one real pays any atten­tion to in 2021. Bruce Lee is still the great­est in the spot. All sports are con­trolled by a high­er cor­po­ra­tion. The Mob owned box­ing back when Muham­mad Ali was sup­posed to be so great. Iron Mike Tyson is like Michel Jack­son to the music indus­try. So what’s your point ? I love Bruce Lee I was very pleased and even if it was an quote unquote real fight that man is match for Bruce Lee, he is like bum­ble bee sec­ond to none. And for the record indi­vid­ual with neg­a­tive mind­set are very next to impos­si­ble to impress. Unless the light is always on them and t they aren’t doing any­thing at all except look­ing for the worst in oth­ers find­ing all the neg­a­tiv­i­ty even in a pos­i­tive sit­u­a­tion. And yet thinks they’re the best thing since the World Wide Web . No dis­re­spect intend­ed this is my opin­ion and I own it. 100% Bruce Lee was a rare gift the world was blessed with we will nev­er get anoth­er one.

  • Cristian Truncali says:

    @eddienycperrisca I’m both a box­er an mar­tial artist your com­ment is com­plete bull­shit I’ve saved my own ass using my knowl­edge against my attack­ers I recent­ly was stabbed in the throat nicked my artery and was .7in away from sev­er­ing my artery I lost about a pint of blood and wait­ed 15mins for an ambu­lance with my fin­gers in my throat not only was I able to defend myself but I was able to pre­vent oth­ers from get­ting hurt if you bring a gun or any weapon to a fist fight your a cow­ard the weapons you have are your heart and your mind they maketh one with your body you your­self are the best weapon

  • Tommy Steele says:

    Why all the hate? Bruce Lee was a per­fect gen­tle­man… I am not a mas­ter of mar­tial arts… But I have absolute­ly no respect for any­one that has to use a AR-15 to prove they are scared to death! And I doubt that Bruce would do any­thing except defeat him grace­ful­ly and show him Mer­cy! He was tru­ly a man’s man.. it does­n’t take much self-respect or dis­ci­pline to pull the trig­ger on an auto­mat­ic weapon when the oppo­nent has ded­i­cat­ed years to become an hon­or­able artist! There is no art in own­ing a Glock with two clips in case he Dodges the entire first clip by bare­ly mov­ing his body.. and if he actu­al­ly did get lucky and hit him with a bul­let… It would only prove his pro­fi­cien­cy in cow­ardice!. A very good friend of mine was a high­ly trained Navy SEAL! Some­one you would not want to make angry! He was­n’t just tal­ent­ed at Mar­shall arts… He was trained to elim­i­nate the threat in what­ev­er fash­ion was the quick­est… So if the oppo­nent was unfor­tu­nate enough to be stand­ing a lit­tle too close.. auto­mat­ic weapon or not… In a mat­ter of sec­onds his ribs would be bro­ken from the inside out and his eyes would be miss­ing from their sock­ets.. because this was war! One day they had him do an exhi­bi­tion match with a very very old man! And they told him that he could­n’t touch him.. My friend thought they were telling him not to hurt the old man! So he threw a cou­ple blows and pulled them… And the next thing he knew, the old man had moved so quick­ly, it would­n’t have mat­tered if my friend gave it every­thing he had… even­tu­al­ly he became so frus­trat­ed by this 92-year-old man remain­ing untouched no mat­ter what my friend did! And the best he could do, was hurt him­self more by try­ing hard­er! The old man would use my bud­dies own iner­tia to allow him to become more aggres­sive until he kicked his own ass! Par­don my lan­guage… But Alvin said that he was so embar­rassed that he was total­ly unable to touch this old man.. who nev­er even broke a sweat, nor was he breath­ing hard.. as his elder made these slight­est moves to allow my friend to wreak hav­oc on him­self..!! that is the absence of fear due to extreme prac­tice and con­cen­tra­tion.. and taught my friend that he was bare­ly a begin­ner! And only caused him to real­ize how lit­tle he actu­al­ly knew even with a life­time of train­ing… And the friend I once new, now had learned a tremen­dous respect for his elders.. to nev­er under­es­ti­mate his oppo­nent.. as the old man sim­ply bowed to him to show respect!.. and said noth­ing…

  • WU YANG CLAN says:

    U R ALL FOOLS THIS WAS AS FAKE AS EVERYONE WHO RESPONDED 2 THIS NONSENSE..I AM THE ONE AND ONLY.THE ALMIGHTY KING OF THE NITETIME WORLDWIDE YOU WILL ALL KNEEL BEFORE ME..

  • Glenn says:

    Wow in the video you see Bruce and all of his Wang Chung mas­ters. You are see­ing Bruce and every one he has learned from.

  • Bob says:

    1st @ eddi­eny­cper­risca, it’s a mag­a­zine not clip..
    2nd @ Tom­my Steele you don’t get to decide how peo­ple defend them­selves. And AR-15s aren’t auto­mat­ic weapons. They are semi auto­mat­ic weapons. Edu­cate your­self. Arm­ing your­self is far from cow­ard­ly. And every­one has that navy seal friend…you’re so full of it. Dodg­ing bullets…wth.

    3rd Bruce Lee was ahead of his time, a leg­end, yes..but in today’s world even in his prime against today’s MMA ath­letes he would get absolute­ly destroyed. He could beat a total standup guy most like­ly, say a McGre­gor, but as soon as a world class bjj or wrestler gets his hands on him, he would get smashed.

  • Suman Chakraborty says:

    Bruce Lee did not know much mar­tial arts. The nun­chaku scene is Enter the drag­on was CGI.
    And Taran­ti­no is the best direc­tor ever.

  • Michael says:

    I don’t care what any of you say Bruce Lee had response time. That’s all it takes. Some peo­ple have fast response time and some peo­ple do not. When I was younger nobody could hit me. I could­n’t do that now because my response time has slowed dra­mat­i­cal­ly at 50. But when I was 20 I was untouch­able.

    And when you look at Bruce’s accu­ra­cy to punch where he wants to punch in ref­er­ence to where you can actu­al­ly punch, and from what we know it does not take a hard shot to knock some­one out, those punch­es that Bruce through that were at that man’s chin absolute­ly could have wob­bled him if he hit him dead on the chin good even light­ly.

  • John Stratford says:

    With all due respect.
    Bruce Lee would­n’t last one round vs Con­nor McGre­gor, let alone ANY top 10 UFC MMA fight­er in his weight class.
    Nev­er since UFC 1 has a pure karate fight­er come close. Karate is too one dimen­sion­al and too weak on the ground.
    Nuff said.

  • Ro says:

    What­ev­er Bruce lee was real or not he was an inspi­ra­tion to many mar­tial artists includ­ing ufc fight­ers so my respect for Bruce Lee.

  • Nicholas f says:

    Ur a mas­ter of your art and the 48 laws of pow­er. NEVER OUTSHINE THE MASTER ALWAYS NEVER TEACH YOUR STUDENT EVERYTHING U KNOW BECUZ MR. GLOCK 9 JAMS U DIED SIR
    YOU SPEAK LOOK A PERSON WHO MASTER HIMSELF THANK.YOU FOR.YOUR TEACHING

  • Tim S says:

    Hey Suman, they didn’t have CGI when they made Enter the Drag­on. It wasn’t even con­ceived yet.

  • Michael says:

    Real­ly??? CGI??? You moron!!! What are you 5 years old? CGI did­nt exsist back then!!! Do you know what a type­writer is? Dis you think Iphones invent­ed the cam­era? Idiot!!!

  • Michael says:

    John Strat­ford! You sir are igno­rant aa hell!! Have some damn respect and real­ized that mil­lions have peo­ple have lived before your stu­pid ass! UFC fight­ers are just what you see now. Does­n’t mean they are bet­tee than any­one before you remem­ber.. You think your­self too impor­tant in the scope of his­to­ry

  • Rob Slawinski says:

    I used to work next to a gym where pure box­ers and mma fight­ers worked out. There were a few fights out­side the years that I worked there between the two. I would’ve thought the mma fight­ers would usu­al­ly win but the pure box­ers always got the bet­ter of it.

  • Roberto D. Ferrelli says:

    You best do your home­work. He was 34 year’s old when he passed. And if you think you could get in the ring with a high­ly skilled Chi­nese Mar­tial Artist you are real­ly high or real­ly stu­pid. Bruce could break the sound bear­er with his fist. So if that brute speed and strength from a fist would make con­tact with a human head it would be decap­i­tat­ed! You Ama­teur’s need to shut up and become arm­chair quar­ter­backs because you don’t have a clue about the life of the Great­est Mar­tial Artist of All Time!

  • Wing sung muk says:

    Nonsense.It was’nt a fight.It was an exhibition,one of many Bruce Lee gave over the years.Bruce Lee did not com­pete-ever.

  • Shawn says:

    Rober­to there is no way he could break the sound bar­ri­er with his fist. The fastest record­ed punch is about 45mph, even if we were to afford him dou­ble that speed at 90mph it does­n’t come close to the 770ish mph required to exceed the speed of sound. It’s fine to appre­ci­ate his skill and char­ac­ter, but, mak­ing out­ra­geous claims like these makes it dif­fi­cult to lis­ten to you. The guy was an inspi­ra­tion to many, and real­ly does­n’t need fairy tales to be that per­son.

  • Steve Urso says:

    Bruce Lee is a skin­ny ver­sion of Steven Segal. Both are just good mar­tial arts actors, who added a lot of myth­i­cal bull­shit to their fame.

  • Patricia Ann Petisce says:

    How do we know that that’s real­ly Bruce Lee? We nev­er saw his face before or after the fight it could be any­body under that.

  • Tony says:

    Your are a real jack­ass that was Bruce Lee how dumb if he was here today day he would make the UFC an box­ing look like bitchs becomes no one can bet him now or ever you jack­ass grow up Bruce Lee was that damn good

  • Tony says:

    Hey to the guy that said Bruce Lee died At 34 wrong Bruce Lee was 32 when he died you need to learn his­to­ry of Bruce Lee I was born two year after he died go look it up

  • Rob Slawinski says:

    You just proved who the real jack­ass is by stat­ed no one could ever beat him. Even Bruce Lee knew there was a good pos­si­bil­i­ty he could have been beat­en. Next time you should think about what you say before you make your­self look like an idiot. The cor­rect way is, “My opin­ion is it would be extreme­ly hard to beat Bruce Lee back then and now.”

  • Alexander j Johnson says:

    The idiot who said bruce lee bare­ly knew mar­tial arts. You sir are a dum­b­ass and would­n’t no the dif­fer­ence from your big toe from thumb. He taught Kareem Abdul jab­bar and Steve McQueen and oth­er celebri­ties. Your no only jeal­ous your prob­a­bly a racist I have no doubt. He change the game for­ev­er 3 or 4 films impact­ing count­less lives and still .he died in the 70,s and its 2022.you can only dream to inspire gen­er­a­tions and all races until the end of time he still lives inside all of us he died when I was 3 and I still cried when I was old enough to under­stand that I wont be able to see him grace the screen any­more. Even games from street fight­er to mor­tal kom­bat it’s always a char­ac­ter that resem­bles the great­est. I wish I could see you face to face cause I would give you a good ass bruce lee style ass kick­ing. You are tru­ly dumb

  • G.fonts says:

    Thank you broth­er I could­n’t have said it any bet­ter. Gives you a choice know­ing that that when all else fails you are pre­pared.

  • Ben says:

    There’s enough state­ments from peo­ple like Ed Park­er & Joe Lewis to con­firm it’s Bruce

    How­ev­er, if some­one hadn’t told me that it was Bruce spar­ring with one of his stu­dents, I cer­tain­ly wouldn’t have said that the mar­tial arts dis­played here were any­thing extra­or­di­nary. Ted Wong isn’t in the same class & it shows when he does the two kick com­bo

    Don’t get me wrong, Bruce was cer­tain­ly very for­ward think­ing with his train­ing meth­ods, but he nev­er pro­duced a good fight­er by him­self- Joe Lewis and Chuck were already cham­pi­ons look­ing for an edge.

  • Ben says:

    It’s sad that in the years since his untime­ly death, Bruce Lee has become the very thing he hat­ed — an infal­li­ble near-super­hu­man who’s skills are nev­er ques­tioned as the art he devel­oped becomes more and more dilut­ed.

    If some­one hadn’t told me that it was Bruce spar­ring with one of his stu­dents, I cer­tain­ly wouldn’t have said that the pret­ty decent mar­tial arts dis­played here were any­thing extra­or­di­nary. Ted Wong isn’t in the same class & it shows when he does the two kick com­bo

    Don’t get me wrong, Bruce was cer­tain­ly very for­ward think­ing with his train­ing meth­ods, but he nev­er pro­duced a good fight­er by him­self- Joe Lewis and Chuck were already cham­pi­ons look­ing for an edge.

  • Tony says:

    Obvi­ous­ly you’re clear­ly blind and clue­less then because Bruce Lee looked phe­nom­e­nal in the footage.

  • Vincent Lo says:

    To all who is read­ing this. This is old sto­ry, Move for­ward.
    Bruce was not the best fight­er or Mar­tial artist in the world, think before you act, peo­ple.
    Before Bruce was ever born, and ever after he we born, there were a few sifu, or as you may called them mas­ters, that were quite amaz­ing mar­tial artist. First­ly, Bruce only trained in Box­ing, and 2 years of wing chun, and Ip man did not train him, it was he’s oth­er sifu.

    Bruce spend most of he’s time read­ing books, and did not start­ed weight train­ing until he was the age of 21, facts. The per­son who intro­duce to Lee weight train­ing was james Lee. First­ly, Bruce grew up in Hong Kong, he had a few street fights, who hasen’t these days and before. Some time you win some times you lose, that’s the way it is.
    Bruce in real terms of real fight in he’s 32 years had a few real fights, I mean real fights.
    First­ly, you need to remem­ber that Bruce had a tem­per. He also cheat­ed on he’s wife twice, that’s he’s per­son­al life. He also use drugs. You all need to take a step back in time.

    Bruce had nev­er ever said he was the best, so I don”t why we all say that. Media is also to blame for that. Bruce was amaz­ing per­son, but he was not the best. He trained in what he believed in, in him­self, he did not ask to be labled or mark as a prod­uct, he just want­ed to he’s best, and he done that.
    So that what Bruce was, a human, not a machine or a prod­uct, that peo­ple and the media thinks.
    He was just a sim­ple per­son like every­one else. He dose cry, he dose get hurt, he dose feel pain, and so on. Brucer trained for what he want­ed to do in he’s life, if Bruce did not do films etc. Non of us would have known him or knew him. So before Bruce there were a few great sifu. And rememe­ber this, behind clos­es doors, one one will ever know any­thing. T

    There are a few back in the 1800 cen­turies and also today, that are fast, great bal­ance and so on.
    But just because you have great speed, dose not mean you are the best or that you know every­thing.
    Mar­i­tal arts is a way of life for some peo­ple, that are respect­ed, they have hon­our. They don’t go out look­ing for trou­ble and so on. Remem­ber, I don’t care how good you are, the gun always wins.

    So today I will leave with a note.

    Be hum­ble, be kind to all, and rememe­ber that, we are all human. We are not per­fect in any­way, but we are still learn­ing. Bruce want­ed to be rememe­ber, as a human, as him­self, as a mar­tial artist, not a prod­uct or who is the best of the best, it’s not a game that we play here peo­ple.

    Bruce is gone, and the only thing we need to rememem­ber by was, he’s words,he’s films, and the way he lived he’s own life, with­out ask­ing or say­ing this or that.

    Best the best that you can be, and live your life to the fullest.

  • Ken says:

    I learn NOTHONG here, Child­ish bick­er­ings, self boast­ing empti­ness.
    Is there no where to dis­cov­er facts?
    I see myself as a real­ist. To learn how depress­ing and sad realal­i­ty can begin a won­drous and beau­ti­ful world, in a adven­ture into the won­ders. The ven­ture has been a total waste of time and mind.
    The land is ven­tur­ous, it’s man who tru­ly disapoints.of course there’s this:
    OPINIONS ARE LIKE ASSHOLES, EVERYBOBY GOT ONE, SOMETIMES, IT’D BEST TO KEEP YOURS TO YOUR SELF. BYE.

  • Charles Furer says:

    You seem to have per­fect­ed the art of “hum­ble brag”, so con­grat­u­la­tions on so many achieve­ments.

  • Charles Furer says:

    Oh boy, you McNugget fans nev­er dis­ap­point, real­ly. The com­e­dy just flows from you so freely, it baf­fles the mind. In fact, I’m pret­ty sure you just bait­ed me.

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