Originally posted by: AssertnFailure
they never specifically said that gentle fist is better than regular taijutsu.....they just said that one inflicts external damage and bones while the other inflicts internal damage.

you could technically kill a man either way, and therefore to say which one is a deadlier move, is sorta irrelevant
oh of course.

But when introducing the jyuuken, Rock Lee said it was Konoha's strongest hand-to-hand combat style. Also, Lee has said on multiple occaisions that he couldn't beat Neji. He said (he was probably wrong) that Konoha's strongest genin was Neji.

Kakashi also put in something along the lines of "there's no way to train your internal organs. If you get hit no matter how tough you are it will be fatal."