Abraham Lincoln vs Horatio Nelson: 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.
Horatio Nelson
“Hero of the Nile” · United Kingdom · 1758–1805 · about 5′5″ (165 cm), about 132 lb (60 kg)
British admiral who destroyed the French and Spanish fleets at Trafalgar in 1805 and died at the moment of victory. Fought on after losing the sight of one eye and most of his right arm.
The crowd
Nobody has called this one yet.
The AI’s verdict (spoiler)
Lincoln by TKO. Lincoln is 28 cm taller and 22 kg heavier, and he's a Wrestling Hall of Famer with nobody to throw. Nelson, one-armed and possibly seasick on a ring canvas that feels like a deck, bravely keeps coming. The referee stops it in round two, mercifully.
Fair fight? Make Lincoln fight with his stovepipe hat stuffed with papers and one hand behind his back, or stage the bout on a rolling ship's deck where Nelson has his sea legs.
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