It's incredible that in the modern age, people are still ignorant enough about martial arts to ask the question: Who would win in a fight, an actor, or a professional fighter.
troytennisbum said:
Jet Li would get killed.....not just by the heavyweights but also by the top middle weight/welter-weight UFC Fighters (ie. Diego Sanchez,Matt Hughes Franklin, etc) as well.
Agreed.
troytennisbum said:
In a UFC match...or even in a real world hand to hand combat situation,
Ground skills are essential to survival. Jet Li is NOT an accomplished ground fighter so he would loose. This is not the movies.
True. It would be worse for Jet Li in a real fight, since the UFC has anti-ground rules to make it more spectator friendly.
troytennisbum said:
True, as someone pointed out above that he was a champion in "Wu Shu". However, until someone using the "Wu Shu" fighting style emerges victorious in the UFC, I will remained convinced that Mixed Martial Arts, as practiced by today's UFC champions, are what really works in the real world.
Being world champion in "Wu Shu" is about as relevant as being world champion in papier mache in a fight. Highly relevant to an acting career pretending to fight.
troytennisbum said:
I think the best Jet Li could do is this.. IF he really trained to be a mixed martial arts fighter and IF he fought IN HIS WEIGHT Class, he would do well.
Sure. He's clearly an athlete. If he trained for 5-10 years in actual fighting, then he might be able to compete. If we ignore the fact that he's already 42 years old. As it is, he would have his a ss handed to him by any of a vast array of complete amature fighters.
Anyway, why would he go through all the rigours of *real* fight training to fight in the UFC for chump change, when one movie will make him more money than any UFC fighter will make in their entire career?
troytennisbum said:
By the way, great topic for discussion here. Looking forward to some replies.
Sad that people still ask this kind of question.
You might as well ask:
Who would win at tennis? Rodger Federer or Paul Bettany, the guy who played Peter Colt in the movie "Wimbledon".