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Could Bruce Lee win a real fight?

"Be Water," an ESPN 30 for 30 film chronicling Bruce Lee's life, premieres Sunday at 9 p.m. ET on ESPN.

SOME CAREERS HAVE the good fortune of ending too soon -- they petrify into myth. When Bruce Lee died at 32, on the eve of his first international hit, "Enter the Dragon," whatever he might have become lapsed into what might have been, into the realm of rumor and wish fulfillment and conjecture.

And perhaps no question about Lee is as trivial yet ardently pursued as this: Could Bruce Lee win a real fight?