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In the real world, Chuck Norris was a middleweight full contact karate champion, at around 185 lbs.

Bruce Lee was an actor, who never participated in full contact competitions, who weighed about 135 lbs.

In the real, real world, Ip Man survived both the Japanese invasion of China and the Communist Revolution. Chuckie survived an upset stomach or similar.

He fought many beimos (with no rules for size, weight, rest breaks ,or duration and survived) - they were contests of life, not of trophies.

Chuckie is a trophy guy who never had to fight for his life, just movie/tv scripts and trophies.

In the real world, Chuck and several other top U.S. karate champions (including Joe Lewis and Bob Wall) trained privately with Bruce, and Chuck says in his own autobiography that Bruce was the better fighter. Chuck packed on 20 pounds for Way of the Dragon at Bruce's request; he says he's about 170 pounds now, he was probably around that or less then. Bruce got up to 165 pounds of pure muscle when he was in his bodybuilding phase, but he slimmed back down to 135 for speed. He worked out on a 300-pound bag that Bob Wall made him as a joke that Joe Lewis and some of their other friends were in on. None of them could move it with a punch or a kick. They didn't tell Bruce they were joking and they waited to see the look on his face when he saw how big the bag was. They told him they wanted to see what he could do with it, assuming he wouldn't be able to move it. The first time Bruce kicked it, it fell over. Then they hung it from the garage roof, and when Bruce kicked it, he broke the garage structure. He broke a 150-pound bag once. James Coburn was holding it for him and he got injured from holding it. Jhoon Rhee said he would not want to fight Bruce because he was "too powerful". Mike Stone said that Bruce was "much too fast for most referees to see and judge him in competitions".