The transcript below is from the video “Muhammad Ali’s Bodyguard Challenged Bruce Lee to a Fight… Then This Happened” by BruceLeeRealFight.

George Dillman:

Muhammad Ali was 6’3”, Bruce Lee was 5’ 7”, but I gotta tell you this Muhammad Ali asked me to introduce him to Bruce Lee.

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Welcome to BruceLeeRealFight Channel. The man with Bruce Lee in the photo here is George Dillman. He was born in 1942, 2 years younger than Bruce Lee. In 1961 Dillman bgan serious martial arts training with Muhammad Ali at Deeer Lake, Pennsylvania. Dillman was 19 years old at the time. Muhammad Ali and him are the same age. Dillman then became personal bodyguard for Muhammad Ali for several years.

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Later on Dillman went on to study with other famous martial artists such as Daniel K. Pai, Robert Trais, Harry G. Smith, and Wally Jay. In the mid 60s Dillman was introduced to Bruce Lee by Ed Parker, an American martial artist who opened the first karate school in the western United States in Provo, Utah in 1954. From then on they became good friends. In a recent interview Dillman said that there was once Bruce Lee went to his dojo in America and beat up everyone.

George Dillman:

And he asked if he could stop by the dojo to train. And he did. He came by the dojo. He came by my school three times. He went in and asked if he could spar with your students. And then he would spar with your students and he did very well with all the students. He beat them up.

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Dillman then asked Bruce Lee for a spar. And guess what it takes Bruce a few seconds to defeat Dillman. Let’s see what Dillman said about the spar.

George Dillman:

You know if you ask him to fight. Well I asked him to fight. That’s how it came about. He didn’t ask me, I asked him. I said, I want to fight with you. I want a spar. And we sparred. But you know, I went into my fighting stance and all of a sudden woop.

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George Dillman is a member of Black Belt magazine’s Hall of fame. He was named Black Belt magazine’s “Martial Arts Instructor of the Year”. He ranked 10 degree black belt in Ryukyu Kempo Karate. For 30 years he ran the Northeast Karate Championships and also conducts martial arts training seminars at the former Muhammad Ali training camps at Deer Lake. Yet he admitted he was defeated by Bruce lee’s famous kick. Bruce’s leg was already on his head before he was able to attack.

George Dillman:

When I first met him, he told me I can hit you four times, before you hit me once. And I doubted that. But he did.

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From what Dillman said we can imagine how fast Bruce Lee was. Although Dillman is not the best fighter at that time, he is still a 10th degree black belt and he trained with Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali’s Bodyguard Challenged Bruce Lee to a Fight… Then This Happened before, yet he described Bruce Lee’s speed is like lightning and he was defeated.

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