Audie Murphy vs Benito Mussolini: 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.
Audie Murphy
“To Hell and Back” · United States · 1925–1971 · about 5′5″ (165 cm), about 110 lb (50 kg)
The most decorated American soldier of the Second World War. Won the Medal of Honor at 19 by holding off a German company alone from atop a burning tank destroyer. Later a Hollywood star.
Benito Mussolini
“Il Duce” · Italy · 1883–1945 · about 5′7″ (169 cm), about 176 lb (80 kg)
Fascist dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1943 and Hitler’s ally in the Second World War. Deposed, rescued by German commandos, then captured and executed by Italian partisans in 1945.
The crowd
Nobody has called this one yet.
The AI’s verdict (spoiler)
Mussolini by TKO. Mussolini wins by TKO in round three. Murphy, already rejected by the Marines and paratroopers for being too small, is 30 kg lighter here and keeps advancing anyway, so the referee steps in. Mussolini celebrates by asking for a photographer, shirt optional.
Fair fight? Fight at equal weight: Murphy eats his way up 30 kg, or Mussolini drops it. Then Murphy's stubbornness gets a fair hearing, and the bare-chested posing gets him hit.
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