Everyone has imitated Bruce Lee in the confine of their living room and accidentally smacked a friend in the nose while spinning imaginary nunchucks. In the MMA industry, we just call that ‘any given Friday night at Ben Fowlkes‘ house.’ Bruce Lee is the reason you get out of bed every morning. He’s the only reassurance the fashion industry has to justify anyone wearing a peasant shirt with amber sunglasses.
I’m sure you’ve developed your own hypothesis as to who would prevail in a theoretical match-up between Bruce Lee vs. [insert fighter name here]. Jeet Kune Do is a martial art and philosophy system created by the late Bruce Lee that essentially combined the greatest aspects of all martial arts. Unfortunately when applied to mixed martial arts — it just doesn’t work. At least not in this case.
Check out this MMA bout that went down at Yonkers Elite Cage Fighting this past weekend when a Jeet Kune Do fighter gets slammed into the 5th dimension by MMA fighter Greg Styles.
