New Fight Question

[seemorenuts]

Another outlier to consider is the reasonable grappler (by reasonable I mean sufficient to get the job done for this question) who has phenomenal strength squeezing tracheas, along with speed and accuracy.

Speaking of the two latter qualities, after the OP acknowledges the importance of Bayesian methods for this question, I'll tell you some reliable anecdotes of what Bruce Lee felt about the following two questions (more reliable than the magazine articles which I never read, as my uncles knew Bruce):

a) who would Bruce take as a partner in a streetfight over anyone else, no contest, he's very clear in his preference;

b) who did Bruce consider the best specimen he'd ever seen that with proper training would become the supreme fighter?

I guess you could ask his widow the first question but my answers are reliable for him talking to his closest buddies in the late 60s.

Have you ever seen how fast Lee was, not to mention fluid? He could knockout a grappler before the victim would even know it. The answer to a) involves a man with incredible speed too.

c) I some documentary made a comment about size, coming from Bruce perhaps but I am more vague about the source here... remember assume equal weights in your posts...

If Colm does a bit of research which allows him to gain some respect for Bruce, I'll tell you a handful of anecdotes my uncle shared with me that I have never heard of in print (not that I looked, I'm not a fanboy).