From what I understand of Bruce Lee's stance on things, he favored what worked in practice, rather than tradition. I think he would have been a huge MMA fan. 
There are lots of differences between a real fight and fighting for sport. The two biggest things I can think of is referee stoppages don't happen in real fights, and real fights often have more than 2 people involved, making lots of techniques extremely useful in one context and useless in the other.
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