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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
People really have no idea what a difference the weight makes. Tyson could probably punch with around 1500-1750 lbs or more of force. Bruce Lee... maybe 500-600. People then start talking about "kicking" or being "well rounded" but Tyson was an inside fighter and probably one the most effective heavyweight inside fighters ever... and being up against someone AND firing rib cracking, game ending body shots just to open the head up for a life ending overhand right, doesn't leave them too many options for offensive opportunities if they can't punch their way out and get some distance.
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It's just complete and utter ignorance and too many kung fu movies with little old masters with the fragility of a bird punching metal slabs in half. They've never seen a fighter drop two or three weight divisions and lose most of their stopping power (Tyson had the equivalent of all 16 weight divisions over Lee).
The problem is it's going to take a lot more strikes from Lee to get Tyson down and Tyson only needs one punch as he proved, many, many times. Tyson wasn't a slow heavyweight either, he was brutal, there was a reason they said he had "explosive power".
And it's not a 250lb vs 350lb 100lb difference where the extra weight has SIGNIFICANTLY diminishing and perhaps negative returns. Most of Tyson's extra mass was all muscle in a very agile distribution. How is Lee going to even block a Tyson punch? It would still lift him through a guard. That's the whole reason there are divisions in the first place.
Bruce Lee.. No ring time, no real fight experience, lots of acting and choreography. It's just such a stupid question. I'm not even sure he'd fare well against any random decent journeyman from super middleweight up let alone one of the all time greats.