Abraham Lincoln 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.
Abraham Lincoln
“Honest Abe” · United States · 1809–1865 · 6′4″ (193 cm), about 181 lb (82 kg)
16th US President and commander-in-chief through the Civil War. As a young man, a feared frontier wrestler said to have lost only once in about 300 matches. In the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.
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 DQ. Musashi turns up late, of course, letting Lincoln stew in the ring. Then he bobs under the 13 cm taller Lincoln's jabs until the rail-splitter's wrestling reflexes take over. Lincoln hoists him in round two for a throw, and the referee disqualifies him. Musashi wins by DQ, unbothered.
Fair fight? Legalise wrestling throws for this one bout, so Lincoln's best instincts become a game plan instead of a foul.
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