Could Bruce Lee beat a Professional Boxer?

[Masters01]

I agree. The best fighters in the world are professional fighters and Mixed Martial Arts is closer to a real fight than Boxing. MMA has rules too but it's more of a fight than Boxing. Boxers are masters of their specialty, punching, but outside their domain they would get destroyed by a well-rounded Martial Artist.

I think Bruce Lee has been underestimated by a lot of people. He was a complete fighter himself. He didn't have the fighting experience of professional fighters and I think top Mixed Martial Artists would have beaten him but he was a lot better than the average Traditional Martial Artist.

He had a lot of skills.

He's only underestimated in boxing. But that's okay. The vast majority of boxing fans are stuck in a 20th century mindset, when people thought that you only needed to punch to be the best all-around fighter. As I said before, he's a God in the MMA world, which is what actually counts in the modern world.

[billeau2]

I agree. The best fighters in the world are professional fighters and Mixed Martial Arts is closer to a real fight than Boxing. MMA has rules too but it's more of a fight than Boxing. Boxers are masters of their specialty, punching, but outside their domain they would get destroyed by a well-rounded Martial Artist.

I think Bruce Lee has been underestimated by a lot of people. He was a complete fighter himself. He didn't have the fighting experience of professional fighters and I think top Mixed Martial Artists would have beaten him but he was a lot better than the average Traditional Martial Artist.

He had a lot of skills.

Take your fist. Now practice for a month....as you can hit a bag of beans...like the bag of dry beans in a plastic bag you get in a grocery....try to tilt your fist down more and more until you can hit with virtually one knuckle. Now it takes 50 pounds of pressure to break the Zyphoid hook where the solar plexis is... when you can generate that pressure on one knuckle, you can virtually break a person's chest plate.....

How in fvcs name is this the same as putting on a big glove, hitting with a giant hand surface when you are punching? That is one example....there are many...Sports are not fighting, they are fighting sports that recreate certain elements of fighting...a martial artist does not train to hit with a gloved hand

[DARKSEID]

He would probably beat Ron Salsa

[boliodogs]

Bruce Lee probably did win a school boy boxing tournament in a country where boxing was not very popular. So what. That information is useless in figuring his chances in a fight with a top pro boxer. It's not like he won a gold medal in boxing at the Olympics.

[frosty-g]

Absolutely not.

Well, not a top level one atleast. There's nothin what so ever to suggest he could.

BUT he knocked down Gary, whats his name, several times, whilst wearing 16oz gloves!!
that doesn't have you convinced?
hater!



ah well, gave me a laugh at least!

[HughJass]

Does the moon wipe it's arse after taking a sh.it?

[John Barron]

the glorified stuntman could beat "pro" fighters at the walmart level.

[richardt]

Bruce Lee would get destroyed, Zou Shiming would beat the snot out of him regardless of weight.

That's the way I see it. But in a street fight, Zou would be rushed to the hospital after a 5-10 second destruction. And Lee would be jailed for attempted homicide.

[samouraï]

Not really fair at all if we're talking purely boxing. In a more street/MMA type fight though, I don't know if I'd favor a boxer his size over him. He's got a lot more to work with than a boxer would, unless of course it turned out he couldn't fight for shít which I find hard to believe.

Pretty cool dude, Bruce Lee. But you're comparing apples and oranges. I agree with the above poster: in a boxing match Zou Shiming would probably win, but in a real fight Shiming would probably get badly hurt.

[Da Machine]

Sorry, but when all your real accomplishments in actual fighting are all hearsay and rumors then you aren't ****. Whether real or not you aren''t ****, because you haven't proven anything.