Every last one of you suck. First of all for arguing perception. Bruce Lee's legacy (so to speak) is a matter of that. There are many things to consider here without getting into arguing bantered about third-hand information (what you or anyone else thought of him personally):
1) INDIVIDUALITY - One of the most significant things I've ever read about the Jeet Kune Do wars (between former actual students of his and even his ex-wife), is that too many people thought Jeet Kune Do was some secret manual with all the answers to how every single person should fight. What kills me is so many young dipshits treat this apparently brand-new dominant Martial Art called "MMA" the same way. Bruce experimented with things that work for HIM, so even his recorded information is relative. Without having him right in front of you to make comparisons you could only make with your own two-eyes, all of your drawn conclusions about him are speculative at-best, wether it's to accredit or discredit him with ANYTHING. You are not Bruce, quit fucking speaking for him or interpreting shit he did to you or anyone else you know.
2) PEOPLE EXAGGERATE - I used to teach Martial Arts and had this happen both to myself and students of mine. Once I asked a student of mine to describe what it was like to spar with one of my best students who was known for his speed. He said to the third-party "this kid took a one-legged stance (he was using a White Crane variation) and I swear all he did was he shrugged his lead-shoulder, and the next thing I felt was my lip swelling up." Now imagine that shit gets written into like 10000000000000 books over the years. I happened to be there on this occasion and it's MOSTLY true, but that doesn't matter, 50% of you when you read that thought "wow that kid must have been FAST"...the other 50% thought "whoooooooooo I smell a steaming nutty pile of bullshit." None of which matters. That's YOUR decision to make.
3) PERSONAL INPUT - This ALWAYS gets added when considering Martial Forefathers. Everyone's got an opinion, and VERY FEW people have gone lengths to be at-all qualified in terms of actual knowledge of the PERSON in question to render such opinions. I was in San Fransisco and met a former student of Yip Man's who actually trained with him around the same time Bruce did. He HATED, and I mean HATED Bruce. But if you took 5 minutes to objectively listen to the guy you could hear in his stories that his biggest problem with Bruce was the favoratism shown to him by Yip Man. This tainted everything he had to say. Which is hilarious, because there's people taking this guy's word for Gospel because well, he TRAINED WITH BRUCE. Whatever. Just like how now there's all these stories disclaiming Bruce's version of the fight with Jack Wong, but the best part being that they come out AFTER one of them is dead, and the ONE person who actually was there (and was not a friend of either particularly) besides the two of them has remained silent. Maybe he knows when it's best to keep your mouth shut.
4) HUMANITY - The guy was human, some of the shit I've read to both accredit and discredit him are equally absurd in assuming he's perceived as anything but. When someone goes overboard about how in-human he APPEARED, what I like to remind them of is that the motherfucker was NEARSIGHTED, and without either his glasses or contact-lenses, he would have a hard time distinguishing details at distances even in fights (hence his fascination for using speed to control and close distances fast, and in-fighting) and that he had one leg longer than the other by about an inch or so, which made him favor one-side when taking stances. Nevermind what he could and couldn't do, those are important physiological constants that put him to a disadvantage. Those who like to talk about him like he was some sort of immortal would do well to remember small details like that. He had physiological things to overcome just like the rest of us.
5) PRACTICALITY - Be fucking practical when going over shit like this. I myself possess most of the home-video footage of Bruce training and sparring at demonstrations. Make no mistake, the man was NO slouch. Saying any current lightweight would dominate him is JUST AS STUPID as saying he could take anyone. Anyone who knows ANYTHING about fighting knows EVERYONE loses eventually. Look at the records of the fucking MMA guys you worship. NONE of them are un-blemished whatsoever to my knowledge. And most of them have lost to guys they've tooled on occasion. Bruce was not immune to this, but it's just as silly to assume he would be completely overtaken by it given the MAIN factor in all this, NONE OF YOU KNOWS/KNEW him. ALL you can do is SPECULATE.
6) TIME FRAME - Yes Bruce existed in a completely different decade. A completely different era in Martial Arts perception. But this neither discredits or accredits him. We still practice techniques today that were invented HUNDREDS of years ago, and prefected GENERATIONS ago, so no this doesn't make anything Bruce accomplished FOR HIMSELF invalid. What it does do is put it into a specific perspective. Comparing him to today's athletes is pointless (aside from personal amusement), but not entirely impossible. What I'm astounded at is the extreme arrogance of this generation in thinking they're so fucking FAR beyond 30 years-ago. Now you know why Fathers run away, because they have to listen to you spewing bullshit about how much better you know/are than they were, and it's not worth their time or effort to either explain life to you, or kick your self-righteous ass all over the place.
Now if any of you cannot consider all of these things before offering your half-assed opinions, sit down and shut the Hell up.