Abraham Lincoln 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.
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.
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. Lincoln is 24 cm taller and 5 kg heavier, and cruising, until round two, when his wrestling Hall of Fame instincts take over and he hoists Napoleon for a throw. The referee disqualifies him. Napoleon wins by DQ and calls it a masterful campaign.
Fair fight? Hold the bout under frontier wrestling rules, where Lincoln's throws are legal. Napoleon would then need a handicap, such as Lincoln fighting with his stovepipe hat stuffed with papers.
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