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In the tournament consisted of
twelve schools the three time champion British boxer Gary Elms was
defeated by Lee by way of knockout in the third round in the 1958
Hong Kong Inter-School amateur Boxing Championships by using Wing
Chun traps and high/low-level straight punches. Hawkings Cheung,
his fellow Wing Chun street fighter, witnessed the event[63][64][65].
Before facing Elms in the finals, Lee defeated Shen Yuen, Lieh Lo,
and Yang Huang, all by way of knock out in the first
round[66].
In Oakland California in 1964 at China Town the Chinese community
issued an ultimatum to Bruce's dojo to stop teaching
non-chinese[67].
Refusing to be told what to do or to discriminate who is allowed to
learn Lee had been challenged to a combat match with their top
fighter Wong Jack Man [68].
The formidable Wong Jack Man had mastery of Xingyiquan, Northern
Shaolin, and Tai Chi Chuan while being a direct student of Grand
Master Ma Kin Fung[69].
The arrangement was that if Bruce lost he would have to shut down
his school, if he won then Bruce would be free to teach Caucasians
or anyone else[70].
Wong stated that he requested to fight Lee after Lee issued an open
challenge during one of Lee's demonstrations at a Chinatown
theater[71].
However, contrary to this claimed motive is the signed formal
letter manifested by Dan Chan with signatures by the martial art
community, including Chan and Wong, as a petitioned document by the
community does not correspond to the motive of responding to an
open challenge. "That paper had all the names of the sifu from
Chinatown, but they don't scare me"[72]
--Bruce Lee. Wong and witness William Chen stated that the fight
lasted an unusually long 20-25 minutes[73].
Individuals known to have witnessed the match included Cadwell,
James Lee (Bruce Lee's associate, no relation) and William Chen, a
teacher of Tai Chi Chuan. According to Bruce, Linda, and James Lee,
the fight lasted 3 minutes with a decisive victory for Bruce. "The
fight ensued, it was a no holds barred fight, it took three
minutes. Bruce got this guy down to the ground and said 'do you
give up?' and the man said he gave up."[74]
--Linda Lee Cadwell. Reportedly, Wong Jack Man published his own
account of the battle in the Chinese Pacific Weekly, a
Chinese-language newspaper in San Francisco, which contained
another challenge to Lee for a public rematch[75].
Lee had no reciprocation to Wong's article nor were there any
further public announcements by either, but Lee had continued to
teach Caucasians.
Lee knocked out Uechi,a Japanese
black belt, in 11 seconds in a 1962 Full-Contact match in
Seattle[76].
It was refereed by Jesse Glover[77].
The incident took place in Seattle at a YMCA handball
court[78].
Taki Kamura says the battle lasted 10 seconds in contrary to Harts
statement[79].
Ed Hart states "The karate man arrived in his gi (uniform),
complete with black belt, while Bruce showed up in his street
clothes and simply took off his shoes. The fight lasted exactly 11
seconds--I know because I was the time keeper---and Bruce had hit
the guy something like 15 times and kicked him once. I thought he'd
killed him[80]."
The fight ended by Bruce knocking Uechi the length of the
gymnasium[81].
Lee knocked-out Pu Chung, a Choy
Li Fut fighter, in the roof tops of Hong Kong in a 1958
Full-Contact match. The match was refereed by Sheun-Leung
Wong[82][83][84].
In a bout Lee had against a Taekwon do practitioner, martial artist
Steve Golden a Kenpo black belt for seven years at the time states
"It was frightening to see how easy it was for Bruce. The Tae Kwon
Do black belt mentioned that he knew Bruce had good hands, so Bruce
said he would only use his feet. They went pretty hard, and the guy
really tried to kick Bruce. Every time the guy kicked, Bruce got
just barely out of range, and just as the guy’s foot came down,
Bruce held his kick up to the guy’s face—a roundhouse kick right up
to the guy’s nose or a side kick up to the guy’s temple. This guy
was putting everything he had into getting Bruce, and Bruce was
barely putting out any effort. If it was for real, it would have
lasted until the first kick[85]."
--Steve Golden
Richard Bustillo is certified as a law enforcement defensive
tactics instructor and certified with the Olympic Training Center
as a coach and official with USA Boxing, and a Kru in Muay
Thai[86].
Bustillo, who is professed in Judo, Boxing, Wrestling, Karate, and
his native Hawaiian Kajukenpo systems, is an inductee into the
‘World Martial Arts Hall of Fame’ and had eventually became a
student of Lees and describes the following incident while Lee was
present at a training session at I.M.B academy, Torrance,
California[87]-
“While a few of us were training, a guy asked Bruce if he actually
thought he could stop his attack if he were to charge at Bruce with
his knife. Well, Bruce told this guy to come at him with the blade,
so the guy did. It was so fast when Bruce kicked the knife right
out of the guys hand, before he could take more than two steps,
that we were all left amazed by it…but, perhaps not as much as the
guy who no longer held that knife.”[88]
Lees veteran experiences in real
combat dates back long before movies or the U.S. during his initial
training as a youth from the numerous gang street fights he was
involved with as a member of the Tigers of Junction Street. "In one
of his last encounters, while removing his jacket the fellow he was
squaring off against sucker punched him and blackened his eye.
Bruce flew into a rage and went after him, knocked the fellow out,
broke his tooth, broke his arm. The police were involved."
[89][90]
--John Little. The incident took place on a Hong Kong rooftop on
1959 April 29, Wednesday 10pm
1960 Seattle, Lee had back-fisted
and busted a mans nose after Lee saw him harassing a Chinese Girl.
Lee was taking a walk. This fight was witnessed by
JamesDeMile[91].
James W. DeMile was the "Duke" of the Capitol Hill gang in Seattle
and an undefeated heavyweight boxer in the Air Force.[92]
DeMile states "I wouldn't have put a dime on anyone to beat Bruce
Lee in a real confrontation. Bruce Lee was the best street fighter
I ever saw, even to this very day, and not just pound for pound —
but against anyone in a real fight[93]."
--James DeMile
Dan Inosanto stated, "there's no doubt in my mind that if Bruce Lee
had gone into pro boxing, he could easily have ranked in the top
three in the lightweight division or junior-welterweight
division[94]."
"In a dictionary, you say 'greatest', you say 'Bruce Lee', that´s
the way it is. He is second to no one."[95]
--Sugar Ray Leonard
Better than 90 percent of the martial artist author Steven Barnes
interviewed believe that Bruce Lee was the best fighter they have
ever seen.[96]
When I was having dinner with Chuck [Norris] I did ask him: "If you
and Bruce would be in a real fight to death, who would win?", and
he said without thinking: "Bruce of course. Nobody can beat
him".[97]
Lee's eventual celebrity put him
in the path of a number of men who sought to make a name for
themselves by causing a confrontation with Lee. A challenger had
invaded Lee's private home in Hong Kong by trespassing on the
backyard to incite battle against Lee in combat. Lee had finished
the challenger violently with a kick from feeling infuriated upon
the home invasion. Describing the incident, Herb Jackson states
"One time one fellow got over that wall, got into his yard and
challenged him and he says 'how good are you?'. And Bruce was
poppin mad. He[Bruce] says 'he gets the idea, this guy, to come and
invade my home, my own private home, invade it and challenge me'.
He said he got so mad that he gave the hardest kick he ever gave
anyone in his life."[98]
Bob Wall, USPK karate
champion and co-star in Enter the Dragon, recalled one
encounter that transpired after a film extra kept taunting Lee. The
extra yelled that Lee was "a movie star, not a martial artist,"
that he "wasn't much of a fighter." Lee answered his taunts by
asking him to jump down from the wall he was sitting on. Wall
described Lee's opponent as "a gang-banger type of guy from Hong
Kong," a "damned good martial artist," and observed that he was
fast, strong, and bigger than Bruce.[99]
Frankly speaking after reading his fights I think his skills is
over rated. It seems that he is only capable of defeating americans
and japanese martial arts experts.
He did not challenge any chinese martial arts experts.
If he is really so good, why didn't he challenge his master who
teach him wing chun and defeat his master? I am sure he is not
capable enough of doing that.
If he is really so good he should also go to shaolin temple
which have all the kung fu experts staying there and challenge them
1 by 1 and defeat them all than he will really be considered as a
kung fu expert
