Alexander the Great vs Napoléon Bonaparte: who would win in a fist fight?
Pick the winner and how they win (TKO, DQ or decision), then see how everyone else called it.
Alexander the Great
“King of Macedon” · Macedon · 356–323 BC · about 5′7″ (170 cm), about 154 lb (70 kg)
King of Macedon who built an empire stretching from Greece to northwest India by the age of 30 and never lost a battle. Tutored by Aristotle; tamed the horse Bucephalus as a boy.
Napoléon Bonaparte
“The Little Corporal” · France · 1769–1821 · 5′7″ (169 cm), about 170 lb (77 kg)
Emperor of the French who conquered much of Europe before his final defeat at Waterloo in 1815. Not actually short: about average for his time. The myth came from British cartoons and French inches.
The crowd
Nobody has called this one yet.
The AI’s verdict (spoiler)
Napoleon by DQ. Napoléon, 7 kg heavier, smothers Alexander in every clinch. Alexander never untied a knot he could cut, so in round two he solves the tie-up with a piledriver. The referee waves it off: Napoléon wins by DQ, having barely thrown a punch.
Fair fight? Make the referee break every clinch instantly, so Alexander never has to untie anything and Napoléon's extra 7 kg stops mattering. Then it's a straight punching contest.
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