Knuckles vs Miyamoto Musashi: 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.
Knuckles
“The Echidna” · Sega · 1994 · 3′7″ (110 cm), 88 lb (40 kg)
Guardian of the Master Emerald and the Sonic character built for punching. His spiked fists smash through rock.
Miyamoto Musashi
“The Sword Saint” · Japan · c. 1584–1645 · about 5′11″ (180 cm), about 176 lb (80 kg)
Japanese swordsman who said he won all 61 of his duels, and author of The Book of Five Rings. Famously turned up late to his duel with Sasaki Kojirō and won with a wooden sword carved from an oar.
The crowd
Nobody has called this one yet.
The AI’s verdict (spoiler)
Musashi by TKO. Knuckles glides in circles and climbs the ropes, but Musashi, 70 cm taller and 40 kg heavier, simply waits, having no other plan than being fashionably late. One straight punch to a very small echidna, and the referee stops it before round two.
Fair fight? Let Knuckles fight from the top turnbuckle with a running glide start, and make Musashi keep both hands tied together in a calligraphy brush pose.
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