Joe Lewis Tries To Teach Bruce Lee Karate........ Then This Happened

[Music] yo everybody's brother here what's going on guys okay so this is the famous bruce lee versus joel lewis footage so if you don't know how joe lewis is he is the former world heavyweight karate champion world heavyweight kickboxing champion he is a real pioneer when it comes to martial arts and at the time he was the karate world champion and he just had won the long beach 1967 international tournament and bruce lee was there to witness it so after the tournament bruce lee was holding an exhibition a fight with diane santo a sparring match and push-ups and the one-inch punch the sixing punch everything you've seen on this channel so bruce lee went to joe lewis after the tournament and he invited him to watch him perform the exhibition so joel lewis said yeah sure i'll be there and he came along and he watched bruce lee do all of this stuff and he was really impressed and when it came time to perform the six inch punch joe lewis actually stepped up and said hold on hold on i'm the champion here let me demonstrate a karate punch and that's what you're about to see here you're about to see joe lewis perform a karate punch and then bruce lee is going to step in and he's going to perform a jeet kune do six inch punch and that's where the footage starts here so after the footage after this video after this incident joel lewis and bruce lee became really good friends joe lewis was so impressed that he basically let go of karate and he started training with bruce lee started doing jeet kune do started expanding his horizon becoming basically a mixed martial artist instead of just a karate guy and they became really good friends and joe lewis was actually going to play cult in way of the dragon and the role eventually went on to chuck norris but yeah bruce lee had really a lot of respect for joe lewis because he was became such an all-around a martial artist but at this time joe lewis was still just a karate guy and he was so impressed with bruce lee that they became really really good friends and he actually invited him to his home and they watched boxing matches together they both were fans of muhammad ali they would watch old boxing videos together and they would spar together and joe lewis actually said that bruce lee was the fastest man he had ever met and that bruce lee punched like a heavyweight yeah that's right bruce lee punched like a heavyweight remember joe lewis is a heavyweight he's 88 90 kilos so yeah okay guys here's the video footage [Music] enjoy [Music] you

Channel: Beerdy - Bruce Lee Central

Views: 5,964,530

Rating: 4.8196292 out of 5

Keywords: Bruce Lee, Joe Lewis, Karate, Tries to teach, then this happened, HD, 4k, footage, mma, championship, long beach, 1967, international, chuck norris, real

Id: 7XS5ssBK6gY

Length: 6min 11sec (371 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 03 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/azirfury]

Why only punch, when you can push and punch at the same time 🧐