Bruce Lee Amazing Fact
Bruce Lee brought Kung Fu to Hollywood. He died at just 32 years of age, but his legacy still remains. Here are 25 Kickass and Interesting Facts About Bruce Lee.
1. Steve McQueen, James Coburn and Chuck Norris were amongst the pallbearers at Bruce Lee’s funeral.
2. Bruce Lee had the ability to snatch a dime off a person’s open palm before they could close it, and leave a penny behind.
3. In 1962, Bruce lee landed 15 punches, a kick and knocked out his opponent in a fight that lasted only 11 seconds.
4. Bruce Lee’s kicks were so fast that while filming for one scene in Enter the Dragon, they had to re-film it in slow motion (34 frames) so that it wouldn’t appear fake.
5. Bruce Lee was a fan of The Great Gama, the only undefeated wrestler in the world. Great Gama’s career spanned 50 years.
6. Bruce Lee was known to be a great Cha-Cha dancer. He had won the Hong Kong Cha-Cha Championship in 1958.
7. A statue of Bruce Lee was placed in Mostar, Bosnia because he was something that all ethnicities liked and could agree on. The statue was later vandalized and destroyed.
8. Bruce Lee’s speed in terms of reacting + punching from a distance of three feet away was found to be around five hundredths of a second (0.05 second).
9. Bruce Lee was a big Muhammad Ali fan and used to would watch his fights on film obsessively.
10. Bruce Lee died from an allergic reaction to a pain killer.
11. The San Francisco Giants eradicated their Seagull problem with a Red Tailed Hawk named “Bruce Lee.”
12. Yip Man who taught Bruce Lee opened his own martial arts school so that he could afford opium.
13. Bruce Lee had the ability to catch a grain of rice in mid-air with chopsticks.
14. Bruce Lee kicked a man so hard that it broke a bystander’s arm when the man fell into him.
15. Bruce Lee’s last movie (Game of Death) contains footage of his actual funeral with close ups of Lee in his coffin.
16. When asked who would win in a fight to the death, Chuck Norris once said “Bruce [Lee] of course, nobody can beat him.” .
17. Bruce Lee was able to perform 50 reps of one-arm chin-ups and it has been said that he performed pushups with upto 125lb of weight on his back. He only weighed approx. 130lbs.
18. Jackie Chan began his film career as a stuntman in the Bruce Lee films, Fist of Fury and Enter the Dragon..
19. Bruce Lee’s first notable film (Golden Gate Girl) was shot in the USA, but wasn’t released in the USA until 5 years after it was released in China. He was just 1 at that time.
20. Bruce Lee was part German (his mother is half German).
21. Bruce Lee was taught “wing chun” by Grandmaster “Y”Ip Man when Bruce was 13.
22. Bruce Lee was one of Hong Kong’s most prominent child actors, with 20 movies to his name by the time he was 18.
23. There was a cultural phenomenon called Bruceploitation, in which numerous Bruce Lee look-a likes starred in cheap knock-off movies to cash in on the obsession with Lee after he died.
24. Bruce Lee’s secret hobby was writing poetry, and he was actually pretty good at it.
25. Bruce Lee was born in San Francisco.
In 1962, Lee was challenged by a man who had been holding a grudge against Lee while the two were practicing at a YMCA in Seattle. The man was described by Jesse Glover as a karate man who also had a blackbelt in judo, though Glover, who was a brown belt in judo at the time, claimed to be better than the man in judo.
After weeks or months of provocation by the man, Lee agreed to fight the man for three two-minute rounds, with the winner being the one who knocked the opponent down or out in two out of three rounds. The match took place at YMCA's handball court, with Glover as the referee and Ed Hart as the time keeper.
Lee wore street clothes and used a Wing Chun stance while his opponent wore a gi and used a karate stance.
According to Glover, Lee used his right forearm to deflect an initial kick from the man and simultaneously landed a left punch to the face. Lee deflected more punches using the forearm, controlling the center line and landed more punches to the man's face until he was against the wall. The man attempted to grab Lee's arms, which Lee responded by a double fist punch to the face and chest, followed by a kick to the nose, which produced a nosebleed and a knockout, at which time Glover stopped the fight. Taki Kamura said the fight lasted 10 seconds.
Ed Hart stated "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"
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