Why did Bruce Lee never fight with Muhammad Ali? If he did, who do you think would win? How come?
Another day, another set of slanders and fabrications by the never was boxing coach about American Combat Arts legends!
First, the answer to the question is that Bruce Lee was not a professional fighter - he was a martial artist who believed, and taught, that the ultimate goal of martial arts in a combat situation was survival. Muhammad Ali was a professional boxer who was 75 pounds heavier than Lee was. A "fight" between them is a ridiculous idea, and would never have happened.
As to the never was coach's never was answer, he, as always, completely fabricates a story.
First, as usual, the never was cites no sources, but makes up his own version of what did NOT happen. The best source for the incident between Bruce Lee and Wong Jack Man is writer Charles Russo's incredibly detailed and massively researched 2016 book "Striking Distance: Bruce Lee and the Dawn of Martial Arts in America." Russo, a writer and martial arts student who lives in San Francisco, spent a decade working on this book, interviewed over 100 people who were part of these events in 1964, and has written what Matthew Kaplowitz, of thefightnerd.com calls "A must-have for fans of Bruce Lee and martial arts history." If you want to know what really happened during this period of Lee's life, including his fight with Wong Jack Man, this book chronicles it.
People today, including never was, don't know how controversial Bruce Lee was in the early 1960's. When he arrived in the United States, Lee began to advocate for complete modernization, and revolution, in Martial Arts. He wanted it open to everyone, not just Asians. He advocated full contact sparring in training, and nutrition and lifestyle adaptations for any martial artist. He was, at that point in time, a revolutionary in his field, who irritated the entire establishment of existing martial artists.
Bruce Lee had been challenged for similar reasons in Seattle a few years earlier for his advocacy of complete change in martial arts. That fight was also predicated on the content of Bruce’s demonstrations at the time, when local karate practitioner Yoichi Nakachi took issue with Bruce’s martial arts philosophy, and issued a challenge to anyone who would listen. Yoichi pursued Lee and bothered him for weeks. When the two finally fought, Bruce obliterated Yoichi with a rapid series of perfectly places punches and a knockout kick in an 11-second fight that left Nakachi unconscious with a fractured skull. This was the forerunner for what happened with Wong Jack Man.
The reasons for the dispute between Bruce Lee and Wong Jack Man are shrouded in mystery, with the most common theme being Lee's belief that Chinese martial arts training should be open to anyone who wanted to learn, including westerners. In the end, the two agreed to a bout which Jack Man wanted to be a public spectacle, and which Lee wanted to be a private lesson at which he intended to demonstrate the future to Wong Jack Man.
“The two came out, bowed formally and then began to fight. Wong adopted a classic stance whereas Bruce, who at the time was still using his Wing Chun style, produced a series of straight punches. Within a minute, Wong’s men were trying to stop the fight as Bruce began to warm to his task. James Lee warned them to let the fight continue.
Nor did Wong write the account the never was claims, and he certainly did not want a rematch. What was actually printed in the papers by Wong Jack Man, which is in "Striking Distance," as to a rematch, after he stated he believed he won the original encounter, (despite no one else who was there believing it), was “[Wong] says that in the future he will not argue his case again in the newspaper, and if he is made to fight again, he will instead hold a public exhibition so that everyone can see with their own eyes.” The wording "made to fight" shows no eagerness to meet Lee again, and he never did.
As for Lee, one result of the fight was that he stopped engaging in such matches, believing that martial arts should be taught as real world survival, not some bout for entertainment.
Why then do you have people who claim to be conversant with the combat arts claiming in answers that Lee was only an actor, or making up never was stories about him? Because they have an agenda against American boxers and combat artists, and, never source or research their answers but make up stories to suit their own agenda.
And those are the real facts!
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