ee Central channel, well… he’s the self-proclaimed Biggest Bruce Lee expert on YouTube, and he tells these wild stories about Bruce Lee from his sources that he always has to keep a secret. So lately, Beerdy has been posting all of these videos about Bolo and Bruce Lee. People have been leaving me comments and sending me emails asking if I’ll take a look at Beerdy’s latest video about how Bolo beat up Bruce Lee while filming Enter The Dragon, so I decided that I would take a look at everything Beerdy is saying about these challenges that went on behind the scenes between Bruce Lee and Bolo Now like I was saying, according to Beerdy, Bruce Lee and Bolo were supposed to have a
fight together in Enter the Dragon, but something happened that caused the entire production crew to scrap the fight and completely change the script because Bolo was afraid to do the fight with Bruce Lee. So how all this happens is an even bigger story that goes all the way back to 1971 when Bruce Lee and Yeung Sze first met — see it starts before the man we call Bolo Yeung would even be called by his character’s name in Enter the Dragon.
Now if you want, you can go watch/listen to at least 8 videos on Beerdy’s channel about all of this because it doesn’t matter to me if you want to support Beerdy, or not, but I’m going to tell you the story based on what he said in those videos. So like I was saying, in 1971, Bruce Lee and Yeung Sze were 2 struggling actors in Hong Kong.
Bruce had just come off of “The Big Boss” which shattered the box office. Yueng Sze, or how about I just call him Bolo. We know him as Bolo. I’ll call him Bolo. Bolo had done some small parts with Shaws’ Brother’s Studios, and he was had the title of Mr. Hong Kong for winning bodybuilding competitions. So these guys are struggling actors doing a bunch of commercials together, and they’re hanging out at this night club.
To make a long story short, they get approached by this guy in the nightclub. I think it was Sum Dum Goi, y’all heard about him in another video. So Sum Dum Goi returns again and he’s a like,”which one of y’all would win in a fight?” Bruce Lee says “it wouldn’t be a fair fight because I’m a martial artist, and he’s a bodybuilder.
” Well, Bolo is pissed because, according to Beerdy, Bolo is actually a specialist in Northern Style Eagle Claw, so Bolo is like “Yo dawg, I’m a martial artist first and then a bodybuilder, let’s step outside and I’ll show you what’s up.” So they step outside to fight. Bolo puts Bruce Lee in a headlock because Eagle Claw Kung Fu makes your grip strong, s
o you know…that means Bolo would be good at putting people in a headlock…with his arms. Because you know, if you have a strong grip, then you have to have strong arms, right? RIGHT? Well, Bruce Lee knees Bolo in the ribs and then he elbows Bolo in the jaw, which gave Bolo a concussion…because Bolo spent so much time working on his grip strength to put people in headlocks that he didn’t train his neck, so it’s easy to knock him out.
Okay, well, about a year and a half later, Bruce Lee calls up his good friend Bolo who he beat up outside of a nightclub in 1971 to play in this movie “Enter the Dragon.” So while they are filming the movie, Bruce and Bolo have a lot of practice sessions to rehearse for their big fight scene. So about halfway into production, Bolo asked Bruce Lee if they could have a sparring match to feel each other out.
Bolo wanted to test Bruce Lee’s strength, so he puts Bruce Lee in a bear hug and begins to squeeze. I guess Bolo learned his lesson a few years before about putting Bruce Lee in a headlock using his grip strength from years of training Northern Eagle Claw. Well, Bruce got out of the bear hug, took a step back, and hit Bolo in the chest.
Bolo waived his headn to say it was over, and that was that — and I actually talked about this fight in another video last year with more details. Well, later on as they are really getting ready to start rehearsing for their fight scene, Bolo asks Bruce if they can have a real full contact sparring match– because the fight outside the club, or Bruce knocking the wind out of Bolo wasn’t enough already — so this time Bruce blitzed Bolo.
Bolo could only attempt to block, and he couldn’t get off a single punch on Bruce Lee. I guess Bolo just conceded the match because he didn’t want to get another concussion, or get the wind knocked out of him by one of Bruce Lee’s Tekken finishing moves, or something. Well, they finally get around to Bruce and Bolo finally rehearsing for their fight scene together.
At some point, Bruce Lee accidentally punches Bolo for real. Bolo is infuriated, but he doesn’t say anything until they wrapped shooting for the day. After everyone clears out, Bolo challenges Bruce to a fight. According to Beerdy’s source, who witnessed the fight, Bolo pinned Bruce Lee with some kind of lock.
Bruce manages to get out of it, and he upkicks Bolo and knocks the wind out of him in the process. Beerdy told that same story again 6 months later, but this time he says “there was no winner or loser,” but “Bruce Lee made Bolo tap out.” Okay, well after that, Bruce Lee and Bolo once again have ANOTHER sparring match.
You’d think Bolo would have learned his lesson by now, but NOPE. This time they are actually getting ready to shoot the fight with Bolo and Bruce that was supposed to be in Enter the Dragon. Bolo said he wanted to test Bruce Lee, and as they are sparring, Bolo starts to get frustrated, so he ups the intensity, and Bruce Lee actually knocks Bolo out.
They had to halt production for 2 days even though Bolo was not a major character, but whatever…just go with it y’all. Well, Bolo threatened to quit the movie. The writers & producers had to scrap the entire scene because Bolo refused to do the fight with Bruce after Bruce knocked him out. So after Bolo was afraid to do the fight scene with Bruce Lee after being accidentally hit and beat up in several sparring matches, they agree that John Saxon’s character will be the one who fights Bolo.
Well, during rehearsals for that fight, John Saxon asks Bruce to spar with him. Bruce goes and gets Bolo, and then he proceeds to fight John Saxon and Bolo at the same time. And then after all of this– one day, on the set, I guess Bolo is finally tired of getting his ass kicked by Bruce Lee. He walks up behind Bruce Lee, smashes him with a headbutt, lifts him up in the air, and slams Bruce Lee on the ground.
Bruce gets up, shakes his hand, and goes right back to work. And after going through all of these videos, I’m looking at Beerdy’s comment section filled with Bruce Lee Fanbois in disbelief. But anyway, you guys have heard what Beerdy has been saying about Bolo and Bruce Lee, so now I’m going to hit you guys with some facts about their relationship.
So Bruce Lee and Bolo were really good friends going back to a Winston Cigarettes commercial that featured both of them. Bruce invited Bolo out to his house on several occasions to talk training, martial arts, and the movie business. There was NEVER going to be a fight between Bruce Lee and Bolo. Bolo actually talked about this in some interviews.
He said that he was disappointed about not getting to fight Bruce in “Enter the Dragon,” and Bruce promised that they would fight each other in “Game of Death.” Bolo dabbled in some kungfu growing up. I doubt he was any kind of expert in “Northern Eagle Claw,” like Beerdy said because Bolo has only ever talked about studying Yang Style Tai Chi, and as he got older, his characters are all Tai Chi masters in the movies.
Bruce was working closely with Bolo on the set of Enter the Dragon because Bruce was planning to add Bolo to his crew. Have you heard of the Jackie Chan Stunt Team? Well, Bruce may have inspired Jackie Chan to create his crew. See, Bruce also had a crew of guys who are in all of his movies, if you look close enough.
Something you should pay attention to if you actually watch Beerdy’s videos is that Beerdy is always making up some story where Bruce Lee teaches some guy a lesson on set, and those guys are almost always one of the guys in Bruce Lee’s crew. That’s how you can pretty much tell that Beerdy is making things up.
When Bruce Lee was actually being challenged around Hong Kong, the guys in his crew were asking Bruce if they could fight some of those guys in his place. So Bruce was planning to take Bolo under his wing and have him be part of his team. Bruce was planning to bring all of these guys with him to Hollywood which could have transformed the Hollywood action scene decades before basically everyone started to have some kind of martial arts training if Bruce hadn’t died in 1973.
So all these fights between Bruce and Bolo — there’s no way that would have happened, in the real world. In Beerdy’s imaginary world where Brucesploitation movies all happened to the real Bruce Lee, I guess anything goes — including Bolo sneaking up on the lead actor, who had a major back injury, and slamming him on his back in front of everyone and not getting completely removed from the project.
All of these stories that Beerdy has are competely made up. He’s looking at photos from behind the scenes, and in some cases, promotional pictures that were basically a 1970s version of clickbait meant to sell audiences on a fight between Bruce Lee’s character and Bolo. Beyond that — there’s not an ounce of truth to anything Beerdy is saying in these videos.
The funny thing is that Bolo Yeung really did challenge Bruce Lee, and do you know what happened? When Bolo challenged Bruce Lee, he lost. Well, actually, I think it was the other way around — Bruce Lee Challenged Bolo Yeung. See, Bruce Lee’s secret to his strength was isometric training. I’ve talked about this in at least 2 videos, including the most recent one I did about Beerdy claiming that he trained like Bruce Lee for a year.
I actually showed Bruce’s isometric strength training routine in that video, so check it out when you have a chance. If you don’t know anything about isometrics, I’ll just say that it made Bruce’s connective tissues extremely strong, and he was able to stablize against incoming forces…and isometrics are also amazing for increasing power.
So Bruce Lee challenged Bolo to an arm wrestling match, according to Michael Chan, or Chan Wai Man. Michael Chan was a policeman, a Triad member, a kickboxer, and an actor. He played the hero in the movie “Chinese Hercules” with Bolo, so at some point, he spent a lot of time around Bolo Yeung. You know, I just think it’s funny how Beerdy has these stories from his sources in Hong Kong that he has to keep a secret, whereas I just told you guys what really happened when Bruce Lee challenged Bolo Yeung, and I said that Michael Chan told the story.
I wish Beerdy and The Bruce Lee Real Fight Channel would actually do some real research on Bruce Lee and then present what they find because embellishing stories, or spreading these fake myths does nothing but harm Bruce Lee’s legacy. I mean, Bruce Lee DID have some real challenges on the set of Enter the Dragon.
All it takes is a little digging to uncover some of these stories. Like instead of saying there was some guy that was a photographer on the set of Enter the Dragon 50 years ago who emailed me out of the blue, I can just say “hey, did you guys know Bruce had a fight in Enter the Dragon that NO ONE talks about?” This is true — he did.
I found an article not long ago on Henry Wong. Henry Wong was a cameraman on Enter the Dragon who filmed something like 20 canisters of behind the scene footage. He filmed the fight when Bruce kicked the kid in the mouth and knocked out his teeth –
– BUT he also had another one that I’ve never heard anyone talk about…and I couldn’t believe it. Unfortunately, Warner Brothers tossed out all of the footage. So look y’all — this whole thing for this particular video started because people were questioning me about Beerdy’s video that said Bruce Lee lost a fight to Bolo Yeung. That story is completely made up, but I have a question for you — WHY does it matter if Bruce Lee lost a fight? I have some stories where Bruce Lee struggled with people, and they aren’t from some student who heard from another student, but from the actual person who sparred with Bruce.
He was human, but he really was unbelievable. I know the Bruce Lee haters won’t accept that, but when I read stuff from Bruce Lee’s students, it’s the same way I’d describe training with my Sifu — where at some point, you’re confused and thinking “how did he just do that?” If you’ve been in that kind of situation, you’ll understand, and if you haven’t — well, you just have to go out there and train until you meet one of these people who is like a mutant when it comes to this stuff.
Anyway, if you want to hear more about how freakishly good Bruce Lee was at taking people completely apart, you should check out this video about What REALLY Happened when people were challenging Bruce Lee on the set of Enter the Dragon — and none of these stories involve crazy sparring matches with Bolo Yeung, but Bolo did witness some of those challenges, or if you want something different, you can check out this video on What Really Happened when Steven Seagal fought Bruce Lee, or did he? You’ll have to watch the video to find out the truth!
But most importantly, I don’t share these stories about Bruce Lee to fanboi out over him — I share them as motivation for you guys to keep training, to remember to breathe, and so that you’ll come back to hear a new story on the next video.
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