Update January 24th 2018

Bruce Lee returns to the upcoming EA UFC 3.

The legendary martial artist was a playable character in EA UFC 2 and now EA is making Lee available as a Day One fighter for fans who own EA UFC or EA UFC 2. Your PS4 and Xbox One will have a digital record of either game on your hard drive or attached to your gamertag or PSN ID.

If you haven’t owned the previous versions of EA UFC, you can still unlock Lee by completing this year’s career mode. If you have Xbox One and subscribe to EA Access, you can also unlock Lee.

Electronic Arts shared an infographic full of figures regarding player habits in EA Sports UFC since its release of EA UFC 2. More interesting to me than the millions of fights that have taken place is the fact that the fighter who’s been used the most is the one who’s never actually fought in the UFC: Bruce Lee.

Lee, the actor and martial artist, has been chosen 3.41 million times in the game’s first month of availability. That puts him just ahead of some of the sport’s biggest names, Jon “Bones” Jones and Georges St-Pierre, both of whom have been played 3.4 million times. From there it’s a big drop off, with Anderson Silva being the only other person to be played as more than 3 million times.

It’s noteworthy that Lee is the top fighter given that he isn’t someone you can access right out of the gate (unless you pre-ordered). To unlock him, you need to either finish the game’s career mode on the hard difficulty or pay for access to him ($2 per weight class, or $6 to get him in four weight classes).

Beyond that, there’s that point about how not only did he never fight in the UFC, he never even heard of it–the UFC wasn’t founded until 20 years after his death. Additionally, Lee never fought competitively. This was the source of some UFC fans’ complaints when Lee was announced as a fighter in the game earlier this year. When GameSpot spoke with his daughter, Shannon Lee, at the time, she had what I think was the right attitude by realizing this is about fun. “[T]his isn’t real life; this is fun, Bruce Lee liked to have fun,” she said. “This is an opportunity to live out a fighting fantasy. And I think we should all be grateful that the technology exists to have some fun in this way.”

This news comes days before the 41st anniversary of his untimely death and shows the his immense popularity is still strong as ever.