Idi Amin vs Ulysses S. Grant: 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.
Idi Amin
“Big Daddy” · Uganda · c. 1925–2003 · about 6′4″ (193 cm), about 243 lb (110 kg)
Military dictator of Uganda from 1971 to 1979, whose regime killed an estimated 100,000 to 500,000 people. Earlier, Uganda’s national light heavyweight boxing champion for most of the 1950s.
Ulysses S. Grant
“Unconditional Surrender” · United States · 1822–1885 · 5′8″ (173 cm), about 134 lb (61 kg)
Union general who won the American Civil War, then 18th US President. Slight of build, a superb horseman, and famously calm under fire.
The crowd
Nobody has called this one yet.
The AI’s verdict (spoiler)
Amin by TKO. Grant stays famously calm, which is lovely, but Amin is a former national light heavyweight champion who is 49 kg heavier. Grant's cigar goes first, his high-jump legs find no horse, and the corner throws in the towel in round two. Unconditional surrender, right on brand.
Fair fight? Let Grant fight from horseback with the ring ropes raised into a jump course. Amin can't land a jab on an opponent who has already cleared the turnbuckle.
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