Why do people act like Bruce Lee is a god?

You just had to be there in the '60s when Bruce Lee was Kato on the Green Hornet.

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Every man bleeds. I think he would do well in the UFC if he was around in the beginning. UFC 1 Royce would get creamed by modern MMA fighters of any weight. Bruce Lee was 120 lbs soaking wet, and of course he would lose to people who outweighed him by 100 lbs. He would lose to Demetrious Johnson too, but so would UFC 1 Royce. Bruce Lee had a great philosophy, but I'm not under the impression that he was a fight God. No one is invincible, size matters, and Lee's groundwork was not up to par with even UFC 1 Royce's. He was a wrestler and a Judoka though. Also, you mentioned GSP. GSP is great because he's well rounded. Bruce Lee based an entire martial philosophy around that. Anderson Silva and Vitor Belfort saw enough value in JKD to train with Dan Inosanto. Both my catch wrestling and BJJ coaches are JKD guys. All the pro-fighters in this town come from the catch wrestling gym, and my BJJ coach is very technical and street-oriented.

I think people on the other side downplay Bruce/JKD too much, while simultaneously viewing BJJ as an end-all be-all. A catch wrestler can beat a Jiu Jitsiero without ever training BJJ a day in their life. Any art that refines their groundwork to fit the mold will be able to substitute BJJ, just like Karate can substitute Kickboxing, as seen by Wonder Boy, Machida, and Ramond Daniels. Given the chance, Bruce Lee would have been a contender in an early batamweight division. Doesn't make him invincible, but he had strength for his size and vale tudo was his thing.

For the same reason that their attitudes bugs you - insecurity. You and they are actually cut from the same clothe. People who are insecure cannot stand the opinions of others that run contrary to their beliefs. It is one thing to disagree, but to have your sphincter twisted in a knot such that you need to ask others to validate YOUR beliefs is something else.

Bruce Lee become a brand name that have many absurd hoaxes that give him impossible abilities. His widow and daughter are multimillionaires from selling hoaxes about him. Many people are media slaves who mindlessly believe anything media tell them. Many American people see only Bruce Lee martial arts movies, they not realize Asia have many martial arts movies with stars who are far superior to Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee never achieve black belt level at even one martial art. He not qualified to teach martial arts, he do it anyhow of course. He study Wing Chun several years, cannot master it however. Good student master basics of this simple style in one year, thus Bruce Lee is poor student. Yip Man say Bruce Lee too immature and egotistical to learn well. Is much evidence of that. Only people very naïve in martial arts imagine he offer any new ideas. His Jeet Kune Do is philosophy that try avoid rigid styles. It just repeat Japanese Mushin. Some claim he is father of mixed martial arts. That certainly far from true. Ancient Greek Pankration blend striking and grappling. Chinese Hung Gar blend Shaolin Tiger and Shaolin Crane styles mainly, also have some moves of Shaolin Leopard, Snake and Dragon plus Taoist 5 Element Fist. Only very naïve people imagine Bruce Lee is great martial artist and have new ideas. They need much more study of martial arts. Some people believe tale that Bruce Lee have 2% or less bodyfat. No living man who weigh 135 lbs. could ever have such low bodyfat. Anyone who know about bodybuilding know the champions have much lower bodyfat than Bruce Lee, but none have only 2%. One tale say Bruce Lee destroy a garage by kicking 750 lbs. bag. Maybe Superman do that in children's comic books, but no human do that, especially a 135 lbs. man. Someone claim Bruce Lee punch like heavyweight. Is scientifically impossible for any lightweight to punch as hard as competent heavyweight. One tale say Bruce Lee bench press 400 lbs., his gym records shown in magazines show he use 64 lbs. for bench press and squat with 95 lbs. I am a 5'-0.6", 96.8 lbs. girl and I lift more than Bruce Lee really did. Such tales so absurd that only mindless media slaves believe them without question. Tales give Bruce Lee magical abilities, but magic not really exist.

There is a lot of misinformation concerning Bruce Lee out there these days. He was great; there's no denying that, but was he the "end all, be all" of martial arts? Certainly not! He ruffled a lot of feathers with his philosophies with regard to the "elegant mess" he considered many traditional martial arts to be, but shortly before his death, he began to understand the rationale of many methods of martial arts. Early on, he took short-cuts, relying on his natural prowess and speed to compensate for lack of understanding of more complex concepts. His technique itself also wasn't as good as many others out there today, but here again, his natural prowess and speed more than made up for any shortcomings. Only toward the end of his life did he begin to understand what he previously criticized, and was just short of coming full circle when his life was tragically cut short.

These days, "Bruce Lee" is a brand, and that brand has to be protected to remain financially viable. How does it do this? Fabricated stories of Superman-style fights, video game tie-ins, and even misquoted statements to make them appear relevant for modern times.

As far as his contribution to the world of martial arts, it is huge. He began propagating the benefits of diet and cross-training (weights, running, all-around fitness) in conjunction with traditional training methods. The greatest impact, though, is that his films drew a wide western audience, popularizing martial arts in markets where it was previously unknown. And that alone is why so many people practice martial arts today.

Bruce not only knew martial arts he developed his own fighting technique. Most of the MMA fighters are just brawlers with no real style or technique.

Some people think he fought competitively, when he never really did.

Why argue hypotheticals and then get upset that someone has a different opinion?