Martial Arts Sparring

I give him credit for mainstreaming the arts and for telling martial artists that they should lift weights and hit a heavy bag. But Bruce Lee as a fighter? He beat up a black belt, and he fought to a 20-minute draw against some young kung fu guy. Those are his only two documented fights. He did not fight professionally. And he could have. He could have boxed in the US or done full contact in Brazil or Japan. I do not say he was a joke, but saying that he was the best "fighter" is like saying that Judge Judy knows more than the people on the Supreme Court! Yes, Bruce may have been a great teacher. But teaching fighting is not itself fighting. I think with what we know now about muay thai, BJJ, and MMA, people need to stop obssessing about Bruce Lee and jeet kune do.
And jeet kune do is not revolutionary. The Brits at the end of the 19th century had a hybrid art called Bartitsu. Boxer Jack Dempsey developed an armed forces hybrid art combining boxing and judo.
Kajukenbo was a hybrid combination of karate, judo, jujitsu, kenpo, chinese boxing, western boxing,
eskrima, and tang soo do. And unlike Bruce Lee and his students, the kajukenbo guys really fought.
So is it not time for people to stop this immature hero-worship of Lee and start concerning themselves with their own training?
There were 100s of true masters of any number of arts, in Bruce’s time, who could have beaten Bruce Lee easily. There are probably 14 year olds in Thailand now who could have kicked Bruce’s butt.
I wonder how many of the Bruce Lee fanboys on message forums like this have never even been in a fight, hit a heavy bag, broken a board, or done any live sparring- don’t you?