Now, I’m just sayin’ in 1965, where is Bruce Lee getting into a fight that gets recorded, and why is the karate guy wearing a uniform? Oh that’s a great question — maybe it’s at a tournament. Well, if it’s at a tournament — what tournament? Bruce hasn’t become Kato quite yet, so he’s not really getting invited to too many tournaments even though he did Ed Parker’s tournament the year before in 1964.
These are still kinda the Oakland years, so the only people pissed off with Bruce Lee are a few guys in Chinatown, but they really don’t care too much as long as Bruce stays across the Bay in Oakland. Now I don’t know about you guys, but the major question that I had was “well, why does this look like something I’ve seen before?” Oh it’s because I HAVE seen this before — as a matter of fact, I think I showed a few clips of this fight in the video I did about Bruce Lee and Joe Lewis.
Y’all know that video — it’s when I called out Beerdy and the Bruce Lee Real Fight Channel for saying that Bruce Lee did the one inch punch on Joe Lewis. But this video — Beerdy, let’s be honest, Bro. You found this video on another YouTube channel claiming Bruce Lee fought some random Karate guy, and you tried to pass it off as some great discovery.
Let me guess, did you get this one from Grandmaster Holmes like that story about Grandmaster Baxter fighting Bruce Lee at one of Jhoon Rhee’s National Karate Championships? Okay y’all, so the truth about this video of Bruce Lee fighting the unknown Karate school instructor is that this is Joe Lewis and Skipper Mullins in a match in New York in 1968.
This video has been floating around for several years, and Skipper’s brother, Don Mullins actually set the record straight on this video. He said that Joe caught Skipper with a reverse punch that gutted him. Skipper was unable to continue and could not finish the match. At the time, Skipper weighed about 150 lbs and Joe Lewis was at 220 lbs.
Since this was in 1968, Joe Lewis was already training with Bruce Lee at this time. I talked about it in my video on Joe Lewis and how he started training with Bruce Lee, so check it out if you haven’t already seen it. Something that I did not know is that Bruce Lee also worked with Skipper Mullins. Don shared that Bruce Lee worked with Skipper on his hand techniques.
Skipper told his brother that he would choose Bruce in any street confrontation, and that Bruce was a phenomenal martial artist. So Beerdy could have shared this fight between Skipper Mullins and Joe Lewis, two former Marines who trained together and faced each other several times on the Karate point sparring scene in the 1960s.
I talked all about Joe Lewis’ accomplishments in the last video, but Skipper Mullins is a guy I knew very little about — so just a quick look on his Wikipedia page says that he started training Tae Kwon Do in October 1963, and he earned his black belt in 1966. In 1965, Sk
ipper enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps, and while he was in the Corps, he would teach martial arts to other marines and FBI canditates from the FBI Academy that was also located in Quantico where he was stationed. He studied under Jhoon Rhee while he was stationed at Quantico. He has won 7 world titles and ended his career with a record of 1100 wins and around 15 losses. He was defeated several times by Chuck Norris and Joe Lewis — but that’s pretty amazing t
o have pretty much only lost to the top guys on the circuit…I’m guessing almost everyone who beat him was also training with Bruce Lee. See, Beerdy could have turned that video into, hey guys, we love Bruce Lee, but let me tell you how he was an amazing trainer and coach. Two of his guys fought in this tournament where Joe Lewis completely smashed Skipper Mullins. This guy Skipper won over 1000 fights on the Karate point sparring circuit, and one of the few guys to defeat him was Joe Lewis, the father of American kickboxing, and another guy, Chuck Norris, the most known karate fighter in the world.
Guys, imagine how awesome you could be if you had Bruce Lee as your Sifu. What do you think you could accomplish if you had the chance to have Bruce Lee train you for 1 year? See, Beerdy, that would have been a dope video. People would love you, but instead, you chose to lie…like you pretty much always do.
It’s all good, though, Beerdy. You keep spinning these lies about Bruce Lee because I’m just going to fact check you, tell people what really happened, and because of the way Youtube works — when you tell a lie in these videos, you help promote my videos telling what really happened. So anyway guys — I didn’t want to have to make this video, but I couldn’t sit here and let Beerdy promote this lie, especially after he started deleting and blocking people who tried to correct him.
So I know I’m not “the biggest Bruce Lee channel in the world,” and actually Beerdy isn’t either — the Bruce Lee Real Fight Channel has him beat by 30,000 subscribers at the time I’m making this video — but I want to tell stories about what Bruce Lee actually did in life, and sometimes I’m going to challenge the status quo, and I’m going to push back on even the things Bruce Lee did, or said B
ecause this is a dialogue…I’m having a dialogue with the stuff Bruce Lee did, said, and wrote a long time ago because I’m practicing MY Jeet Kune Do. Not Bruce’s, Dan’s, or anyone elses. If you didn’t understand that — there’s a very interesting video with Dan Inosanto where he talks about Jeet Kune Do and how people can do their own personal Jeet Kune Do — and that’s what I’m doing…I’m doing the Goldenbell Jeet Kune Do.
What would happen if you apply some of Bruce Lee’s ideas to internal martial arts? So y’all will have to stay tuned to see how this experiment turns out. Make sure you check out my video where I tell the truth about Bruce Lee’s One Inch punch demonstration from 1967 and how Joe Lewis started learning under Bruce Lee.
It’s a really dope video, and if you like hearing all those stories about Bruce training with these old Karate champions, you’ll really enjoy that video. But hey Real Quick — I want you to do one more thing for me. Keep Training, Remember to Breathe, and I’ll see you on the next video.
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