he was also ill mannered and arrogant. His telling the tcma community to shove it was nothing more than a temper tantrum from my point of view.
Ali? Frasier? Foreman? I dunno...real fighters? lol
He was never really in any sanctioned fight was he? Nope. He smacked around a 16 year old kid on the set of ETD...and that's about it except for teh secretive WJM match.
Those guys wouldn't have the careers they do without Bruce Not a single one of them.
They would never say a bad thing about Bruce ever for that fact alone.
I liked Bruce because he was strong willed and made Kung Fu movies that made sense to the western mind.
Shaw brothers flicks were almost always these particularly weird films with little inthe way of congruence or good writing etc.
so, the fact that Bruce made Kung Fu movies with a beginning, middle and an end means that he knew how to tell a story.
That's why I like him, because that's what he really did!