If These Bruce Lee Fights Were Not Recorded, No One Would Believe It 

Bruce Lee once said, "Be water, my friend." It's a simple phrase, but it captures his whole philosophy. Water can flow, or it can crash. In life, being like water means adapting to any situation, overcoming obstacles with grace, and never losing the essence of who you are. Despite facing racism and injury, Lee's resilience and dedication to martial arts not only broke barriers but also transformed him into a global icon. His legacy teaches us that with enough perseverance, we can shape our path and flow past any challenge life throws at us.

Bruce Lee was my idol during my quest to achieve a Black Belt in the seventies. His profound techniques were impressive indeed. I’m in my seventies and I still train daily. Bruce Lee is responsible for making Martial Arts an integral part of my life! Thank you for this very informative RU-vid video. DRJDC

I met Bruce in Swindon's Bookstore in Hong Kong in March or April 1973. While examining a book on Japanese combative arts called Classical Bujutsu, by Donn Draeger, I noticed a young Chinese man wearing a baseball cap and pink sun glasses siding up to me. He then asked, are you a martial artist? I explained that I was a student of martial arts but wouldn't call myself a martial artist yet. He laughed, took off his classes and introduced himself as Bruce Lee. I told him my name and he said, "You're wearing my name on your jacket!" (At that time I was wearing a jacked with the Chinese character for "dragon" [long 龍] embroidered on the left breast area and I did not know his real name was Lee Shao-long [少龍] "Little Dragon.") We talked for about 15 minutes but it was mostly him telling me about his movie career. 🙂 Big ego but he came across as a nice guy. I thought about contacting him again later but two month or so later he passed away. That was a sad day.

Legends are born once a century. Bruce a true Legend.

He was a good man who didn't care about race and fought bigotry. That's a real hero.

Can you imagine getting CPR from Bruce Lee One inch punch? Wa-kaaa! Oh my heart ♥️

These are not fights

That oblique kick is used a lot today in mma.

He was so amazing to watch… Wish I could have seen him live in person

To this day, Bruce is still the Master/GOAT martial artist up there with the greats like Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Gretzky, and the list goes on. He inspired so much people. There is a reason why so many celebrities/atheletes a mixed of who's who at that period went to Bruce to learn the ways of martial arts "Jeet Kune Do" . There have been many that have come close like Jackie Chan & Jet Lee... but no one has the well rounded skills Bruce had, incredible stamina, speed, ferocity in his fight montages that we were lucky to capture at his fight expositions.. And even though he was a ferocious fighter he still had a balance with the philosophy and incorporating it into his martial arts and well being. Humanity lost alot when Bruce past away at such a young age of 32 but he left a Legacy and we are lucky to have the glimpses of this incredible fighter captured on film and amateur footage. If it's any human I would've loved to meet in person it would've been Bruce Lee as I mentioned before he was so well rounded with his fighting skills but also. in tune with philosophy of well being. There was a reason why there was a famous song called "Everyone was Kung Fu Fighting"....what an impact he had back then and to this day. What a true Legend. "Be Water My Friend"

Love, Honor and Respect to Bruce Lee the greatest Marital Arts fighter on Planet Earth.

BE like water ............We the human population miss u both bruce and brandion lee

Dearest Dan, It's so cool to see you seeing yourself from the big screen and touching the audience. I miss you so much, every day but you are in every reflection in my sight. I'll always love you just like a dad that you were for me. Your stepdaughter Joana.

♥紀錄片很清晰👍感謝你詳細的講述🙏

Fighting someone his size, he knew enough of other disciplines to be very hard to beat.

I wish he was still alive... wonder what kind of great martial art and philosopher if he would've been still around...

Bruce Lee is the best ever ❤️

I think it's best to not hero worship. Bruce was aware of his own ego. That said, one of the best fighters in history.

Bruce is a God That Created his Own Unique style of martial arts! He learned something and made it of his own! That is What a God Is About! He literally manifested his Life making him a Legend!!

I like how humble and honesty Bruce character is, he never claim to be greatest he speak the truth, he said Ali can dominate him in the street fight, he also said if TMA vs boxing or wrestling, boxing wrestling will won. He known what is reality, he accepts and learn from it, Bruce Li is definitely ahead of his time

Imagine teaching Tyson the one inch punch.

I just learned something from this my father was a big fan so wanted to call me bruce my mother didn't really like the name so they opted to call me lee turns out his actual name is lee so my dad kinda got what he wanted in the end.. cool 👍🏻

The father of MMA

Inspiration for my life for sure,amazing talents.

SO SO SO AMAZING THAT HE WAS❤❤❤

I wish he were alive. He is missed.

Bruce Lee was the best, a real true legend.

Still waiting to see recordings of Bruce Lee fighting, and not just clips of his choreographed movie scenes and staged demonstrations. Ah yes, the old one inch punch. Where your assistant jumps backwards into a chair to make it look like it was because of your light tap.

His son was Lee Majors and his daughter was Kathie Lee Gifford. Bruce founded Lee Jeans along with Jerry Lee Lewis. His grandfather, Francis Scott Lee, wrote the "Star Spangled Banner."

Simply the Best!!!!!

Awesome episode. Long live Bruce Lee

Great narration !! Thank you !!! 👍👍👍

As a martial artist as all of us owe Bruce for glamorizing and popularizing eastern fighting to Mainstream America, can’t leave out Chuck, they were hundreds and hundreds of high ranked instructors pouring in a opened the best dojos in the world in the 70’s but it was these two that brought the mystic and supernatural almost occult alure to the arts that either sucked young men like me right in or scared the hell out of people, when I recieved shodan in Shotokan I had very intelligent people askin me if i went down to the police station and registered my hands as lethal weapons thats hilarious but thats the Gods honest truth people really believed that when promoted to black belt you had to go register your hands and feet as deadly weapons to the authorities then people believed that if you were brown or black belt and wether you were at fault it not even getting attacked you wasnt aloud to use your Art because thats trained lethal force theyll come and arrest me lol, and the best one i heard a zillion times, yeah you might take me with that karate stuff but nit in a real street fight? Like we all have a switch in the middle of our back one set on master of hand to hand combat or switch to drunken hay maker sluggfest which is what they refer to streetfighting, If you have any taught and learned technique then its not Street fighting, so their definition of streetfighter was someone that doesn’t know how to fight hahah Anyway bruce was a perfectionist that had the discipline to throw backfists at a suspended tennis ball for 10 hours a day and was a perfect technion but unbeatable the best in the world, dont know if he was ever put in life or death defense but doesnt matter we owe him and chuck ir i do because i loved the arts the techniques the tradition the culture language and everything but thanks to bruce and chuch i recieved that extra reputation where people thought i could jumo spin kick a regulation basketball net hahahhah Dont know who they saw 30 years ago but wasnt me hahah

Bruce Lee done a lot of demonstrations but never fought in a tournament.

Thanks for the vid 👍🐾🥋

One inch punch is from an art known as bone breaking... Bruce learned it. He loved to fight, most his adult life he would meet the other students of the arts and they would fight. Bruce had to ask how to train to achieve it. Bruce won the right to hear the training, and he only exhibited 1/2 the complete motion. There is a man who learned it, he also uses 1/2 motion to break a chestnut. The difference of using the complete motion is shattering to the walnut. The actual art trains one to break bones when defending. The punch is all anyone knows of the art, but the best part is the self-defense aspects of bone breaking. Seek and you will find.

That mofo was hell!!!!

MUY interesante!!!

When i grew up in the 80s i studied karate, i messed about with other M/arts i was always intrigued with Lee, i was just a casual but where i lived you fought everday just about so it was more going to learn to stick up for yourself

It’s sad him and his son Brandon died so young.

The best fighter in the world

Bruce Lee refused to fight anybody. Full contact karate came to the US in 1971, led by Joe Lewis. It was going since the 1960's by the Kyokushin karate organization in Japan. Bruce Lee refused all invitations to fight. His so-called closed-door fight with non-fighter (instructor) Wong Jack Man, who weighed 130, ended with a winded Bruce Lee quitting after getting punched around (according to Wong). Lee misrepresented what happened. Wong publicly challenged him to a fight before the public. Lee refused as always.

Thank you

The Jimi Hendrix of kicking ass. Both coincidentally share my birthday (27th November).

King is only one - Bruse Lee❤

Bruce Lee was The Greatest marshal artist ever born on earth ❤

SO TRUE BRUCE #1💯

Love Bruce. Huge inspiration. But demos are not fights. Shaolin monks take drills to their head, impressive, but doesn't translate to actually taking a punch to the head.

Li Jun Fan was a Hash puffer

So Jack man goes to shake his hand and Bruce sucker punches him. Bruce tried to do the same to Vic Moore in a demonstration.

There was no money in tournament fighting. If he fought one person, he would have to fight everybody who wanted to say they fought Bruce Lee.

We can only imagine what more he could have achieved had he lived another twenty years only. Into the 90’s ! It might have been a different world……maybe that’s why special people are taken early….🌹

Bruce Lee could humiliate any MMA fighter competing today. The man was the closest thing the world has ever seen to a real life superhero.

Bruce is June Fan Lee's American name. Shortly after the birth of the " Little Dragon 🐉 " ( born in the yr 🐲 in Chinese Zodiac) an American Nurse at The San Francisco's 🏥 gave Lee the name Bruce. Upon his return to The USA 🇺🇸, Bruce Lee lived his life as an American Born Citizen .

The Goddamn LEGEND! RIP Grand Master Lee ❤

Me and him are alot the same speed and power one love ❤

We all love Bruce, but where's the real fight? In the ring. He is a great actor, but that's it, a great actor.

You were and still are the greatest martial arts fighter.

yes i have a memory from early 90ts _i wonder myself why on earth i gave away big poster to my neighboring kid 🤗🤦🏼 This guy is world wide legend🙏🏻 🙌🏻

Bruce Lee theorised fighting, the mechanics and the emotions behind it, while drawing lessons from physical phenomena like water and their applications to mma. Yes he was an actor, but I'm yet to see one with such a passion, he philosophised combat. He described the art and understood the science. He was the cheat sheet.

They hate on Bruce. "They" say he didn't fight anyone. Yeah right

RESPECT

God bless you Lee 🙏 ❤️

Jeet Kun Do was the birth of MMA

Rest in peace Bruce and Brandon ❤

The most insane fight was when he fought a champion from China so he could teach King Fu in America to Americans, and get the blessing of the Chinese elders. And after Bruce won, the guy snuck up on Bruce after the match kicked him and broke his back. You never hear if the guy ever saw punishment for that dastardly low hand blow laid upon Bruce. And when I hear that, that really pisses me off. To hear that someone cannot accept defeat in a match of any sport. Then cheats. I hope the guy was caste out of China.Well, maybe that's what he would actually want huh? I don't know how they handle such things. It just pisses me off.

RIP 🫀🙌👐🤲🤛✊👂👃🖐️🤘🤙🤝 BRUCE LEE

Its wild that all these people think bruce is a real fighter

Hearsay ...

But the best one inch punch was the one Goku used on Golden Frieza

The haters and the doubters always make their presence known, I am willing to bet that none of these haters and doubters would have the ball to said shit to him in his face

Bodybuilding started after Bruce Lee showed off his muscles

His rating on ufc is so weak. If it was realistic he should have broke the game.

I remember Bruce plying pingpong using nunchucks against champions and winning...

I love Bruce and respect him for everything he did for martial arts, but I honestly think that a better than average collegiate wrestler would have given him a run for his money. I mean, sure, one inch punch, super impressive, but did you happen to notice that every instance of its use was against a compliant participant, not a motivated assailant? Also, the “target” wasn’t moving, not even a gentle sway and that isn’t something you’ll often see in a fight that isn’t for TV/movies. Fights are more often than not hectic as fuck with so many variables that attempting to predict them all is as foolish as it gets. Again, not taking anything away from Bruce, he’s a GD legend. I’m just saying that I wish there was real deal footage of him fighting! Not tournament rules point fighting with referees and timekeepers, etc. but real fucking scraps where the two individuals aren’t shaking hands and bowing beforehand. I’ve never been in a fight outside of the ring where we waited for the bell or touched gloves before getting after it. I wish we could have seen what Bruce really had because all but a scant few techniques from traditional martial arts have ever proven effective when pressure tested and that’s just a fact. Muay Thai, Boxing, Wrestling, Judo… These disciplines WORK against a determined motivated assailant, element of surprise or not. If a decent grappler gets a hold of you and wants you on the ground, then you’re gonna have to work hard to prevent it from happening, full stop. You’re not generating any power in kicks or punches when your face is grinding against concrete, hell your not even throwing them for that matter. There’s a huge difference between “I really want to win this tournament” and “I really don’t want to die in this alley”….

He never challenged the unknown kung fu experts from Shaolin temple

„Leere deinen Geist. Werde formlos, gestaltlos - wie Wasser. Wenn man Wasser in eine Tasse gießt, wird es zur Tasse. Gießt man Wasser in eine Teekanne, wird es zur Teekanne. Wasser kann fließen und schmettern. Sei Wasser, mein Freund.“ Bruce Lee (*27.11.1940 - +20.07.1973)

The King 🤴 of Jeet Kune Do and Kung Fu Master Bruce Lee 🤴

was he actor or fighter ?

I love Bruce Lee. I grew up with his mystique. But, I wonder if he would have really won against the best professional boxers of the day. My guess: No. He never really competed.

Wonder how he would do in the UFC.

bruce lee gave chuck norris fake fortune cookie

Jun Fan Jeet Kun Do will live on forever

Way cool

Bruce Lee my hero.

He had sacral nerve damage before they took the video of him training in the backyard

It is rumored that he was murdered for teaching to americans. I actually believe it to be true.

A martial art is just that a art . Its not ti actuallt fight . Its to express a culture and self . Some techniques can translate to real life but bot practical most of the time . Alot of it is for beauty and not for the most effective way ti hurt or defend.

Bruce Lee was absolutely wrong for teaching secrets When someone vouched for him to learn them. I loved his movies. R.I.P. the Great Bruce Lee. still was wrong 😔

I heard that when he was born, he slapped the doctor! Then he chopped his own umbilical cord.

Yes he did?

add what is essentially your own

He must be in Valhalla

I believe his way of lifestyle and exercise had killed him..for me he is just an inspiration on how to die young.. "Sometimes coward's do survive " -Starsceam

Cliff Burton 👍

**( "LIKE•WATER" ! )**

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Qigong Technics power

From black drag

Ok. Bruce Lee was an amazing entertainer and very talented at performing physical feats. But... Bruce was no fighter and never claimed to be. Any decent professional fighter in boxing, mma, kick boxing, wrestling would mangle Bruce. He was a cool dude, but he was an entertainer not a fighter.