Previously, Tyson had said that he could kill Bruce Lee in any situation, which caused a hot discussion on the Internet for a time. For this topic, some senior martial arts fans believe that Tyson and Bruce Lee grew up in different periods, such a comparison itself is meaningless, Tyson's remarks are more to warm up for their comeback.
In recent days, a video clip has been leaked on the Internet, where a foreigner said on a show that his father could kill Bruce Lee. This man is the son of Hollywood action actor Chuck Norris (also known as Loris).
Unlike Tyson, Norris and Bruce Lee were characters from the same period, and the two had a lot of intersection. In the United States at that time, karate was a mainstream fighting sport, so Norris began to learn karate at the age of 16, and later learned judo and taekwondo. Later, Norris began to shine in the karate ring and won the National Karate Championship several times.
In 1967, while attending a karate competition in New York, Norris met Bruce Lee, who was a guest. In later years, Norris and Bruce Lee studied and trained for several years. After Bruce Lee's guidance, Norris's level of competition has been rapidly improved. However, because Norris was famous in American martial arts at that time, he did not want to admit that he was a student of Bruce Lee due to the problem of face.
Norris (left) and Bruce Lee (right)
Norris's mentality at the time was that a ring champion would go and learn Chinese martial arts, which would make his students and the entire American martial arts scene think. Therefore, for the experience of learning from Bruce Lee, Norris has always said that he is just training with Bruce Lee.
Later, Bruce Lee invited Norris to participate in his film "Raptors Across the River", in which the two staged a very classic fight scene. Norris took this opportunity to successfully open his own film and television road, and starred in many movies, becoming a Hollywood action star.
In fact, Norris's success in the film industry comes from Bruce Lee, and in martial arts, he is also inextricably linked to Bruce Lee. To this day, every time Norris faces the media, he encounters two questions: 1. Are you a student of Bruce Lee? 2. Who is more powerful, you and Bruce Lee? For the first question Norris rhetoric repeatedly. On the second question, Norris had said that Bruce Lee was just an actor and that he was a fighter. However, a letter of apology he wrote to Bruce Lee in 1973 was previously published on the Internet.
In the letter, Norris said: "Dear Bruce (Bruce Lee), I write this note to wish you great success in the film industry and to clarify any misunderstandings you have heard about our training together. I have told many people that I have trained with you, that it is my honor to learn from you, that it does not embarrass me to train with you, and that I cannot compare with you in terms of kung fu. ”
Norris's letter to Bruce Lee
Speaking of which, it doesn't really matter whether Norris approves of Bruce Lee, as their contemporaries of American martial artists say, if Bruce Lee wasn't good enough, he wouldn't have spent that much time there. Similarly, if Bruce Lee is very amateur, why would Norris, the pro champion with a strong record, go to train with him? So it seems that Norris and his son's words are just listening.