I've...actually got to laugh at that. You sir, don't know Bruce Lee at all. First off, Bruce never entered a tournament because in the 60s tournaments were sort of pathetic. They were either light contact or no contact, sort of like glorified games of tag. Lee never backed down from a fight tough and there are plenty of recorded instances where excellent fighters, martial arts masters and champion fighters, went to him while he was on set of a movie or just in his free time and challenged him to a street fight. He invariably beat the snot out of them without so much as a sweat broken. After he died, several other martial arts tournament fighters (Like Chuck Norris, much as I like the guy most of the time) implied that they could have taken him. Note I said AFTER he died. He was a street fighter, and he fought on the streets with real people, no rules, and real stakes.
Bruce was a bad student or he had a bad teacher? One of his most famous moments is when he fought a martial arts instructor who was complaining about his teaching non-Chinese people. They challenged each other to a fight with the understanding that if Bruce lost, he had to stop doing this. Bruce did not lose. On the contrary, eyewitness accounts invariably say that he beat the tar out of the guy (the fight ended with the other guy running away while Bruce chased after him and continued to wail on him from behind), but he realized that he didn't use almost any of his Wing Chun style that he was taught and was teaching his students, mostly because Wing Chun relies on getting in real close to your opponent, while his opponent used a longer ranged style. Disenfranchised with the idea of strict style adherence he took a sort of a martial arts pilgrimage and started observing and learning as many styles as he could, taking from them what made sense and discarding the things that were just silly tradition. This eventually became Jeet Kune Do, literally "Way of the Intercepting Fist" but often given the nickname "No Style at All".
Some other examples of Lee's prowess? Well, besides the infamous one-inch punch, where a man held a phone-book to his chest, Lee places his hand about three inches away from the phone book (but three inch punch doesn't sound as impressive), and then just sort of juts his hand out. His arm is already nearly fully extended before he even does the punch. The results? The guy who was on the receiving end of the "punch" was flung back into a chair and the chair was toppled over. And guess what else? The guy couldn't preform the demonstration again the next day because his ribs were broken. Lee's strength is darn near super-human. He was known also to be able to kick a 300 pound sandbag into the air. KICK IT INTO THE AIR. I have to struggle to lift 150 pound objects where I work, and that's just lifting them a few inches off the ground. And I lift with both legs.
And as for his punching speed? From a completely relaxed position he could reach a fully extended punch in .05 seconds. That's what he was clocked as. Normal humans can't react that fast. I get that in a fight, against a moving target, that wouldn't happen, but consider that this was from a completely relaxed position. Either way, he was faster than most humans could perceive. I want to say that I heard a story that he met the world fighting champ at the time and demonstrated this speed by doing the punch from a complete standstill. The guy, knowing full well what was coming, tried to block the punch to the face, but couldn't. Bruce simply stopped an inch or so before actually hitting his face, and the champ claimed that he would never actually be able to stop the punch, even if he were anticipating it. BUUUUUT I can't find this info online anywhere so it may very well be an urban legend. Probably is. Whatever.
Bruce Lee accepted everyone who ever challenged him, and he always fought with witnesses. And there is no recorded evidence of anyone ever beating him after he became famous. In fact, there is no recorded evidence that anyone ever landed a hit on him. And he fought people who claimed to be the best. Jackie Chan's brother, who is generally accepted to be JC's equal in Shaolin martial arts, challenged him on the sets of one of his movies. Again, he didn't just lose, he was demolished.
Bruce Lee is one of, if not the, best martial artist who ever lived. Bruce Wayne's feats are superhuman by the world's standards. Lee's skills are superhuman by DC's standards (really light superhuman, but superhuman nonetheless). I'm sorry, but I honestly believe that Bruce Lee could beat anyone alive today, and anyone in fiction who doesn't have some sort of super-power, because frankly no writer would make a guy who was that skilled and then claim that they are not super-human, because no one would believe them.
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