Originally posted by dadudemon
I am not...at least in upper-body strength. I cannot take 70 lbs and hold it straight out in front of me like Lee could. That's a very strong upper body strength feat. In fact, that's just stupid strong for someone that weighs 135-145 lbs. To be honest, it hurts quite a bit to do the same feat with just 60lbs...much less even attempting 70. 🙁I would give upper body strength to Lee in this . I did a attribute by attribute analysis of Lee vs. Ali many pages back and it came into favor of Lee by a comfortable margin.
Street fighting experience: Lee
Strength: Lee (because Ali will not be using his lower body strength)
Speed: Lee by leaps and bounds.
Endurance: Lee
Heart: Ali by leaps and bounds.
Experience against high caliber fighters: Ali
Diversity in Skills: Lee by leaps and bounds
Reach: I would be Lee's kicks on par with the speed of Ali's punches so I will give this to Lee but only be a small margin.
Size: Ali
Durability: Ali by leaps and bounds.
Overall, it favors Lee. If Lee was very weak but still had his speed, I would give it to Ali. But Lee has strength behind his stupid fast speed. Lee also has many other things going for him that make an street fight or an MMA fight in Lee's favor.
These are all things I covered already.
👆 Pure wisdom.
Bruce used to use a 50 pound weight built on a crude invention of his to practice his inch punch, and do this for very long periods of time. I'm not sure that I would give Ali the durability over Lee to be honest. Lee, used to do so many push ups that he had to figure out a way to save time while doing other activities, so he strapped on electric pads to stimulate his pectoral muscles. Lee's endurance was absolutely incredible for a human being. People forget how hard it is to maintain a horse stance, if they even know what one is. I challenge anyone to go into a horse stance, and maintain it for 10 minutes. Lee could remain in this stance for over an hour at a time, and still throw punches.
Compared to Lee's level of athleticism, Ali was an out of shape old man. Your post was dead on the money.