Audie Murphy vs Ryu: 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.
Ryu
“The Wandering Warrior” · Street Fighter · 1987 · 5′9″ (175 cm), 187 lb (85 kg)
Wandering martial artist who lives only for the next fight. Master of the Hadoken, which he has been asked to leave at home tonight.
The crowd
Nobody has called this one yet.
The AI’s verdict (spoiler)
Ryu by TKO. Ryu wins by TKO: the Marines and paratroopers already turned Murphy away for being too small, and Ryu is 35 kg heavier. A Shoryuken lands in round two and the referee steps in. Murphy, who once lied about his age to enlist, can't lie his way past the scale.
Fair fight? Put both men at 50 kg. Then Murphy's refusal to stay down gets a fair hearing, and Ryu has to win with technique instead of sheer mass.
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