Miyamoto Musashi 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.
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.
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)
Musashi by TKO. Musashi claims to have won all 61 of his duels, starting at 13; Mussolini's main ring experience is photo ops. Il Duce flexes bare-chested for the cameras while the 11 cm taller Musashi picks him apart, and the referee stops it in round two.
Fair fight? Give Mussolini six months of real boxing lessons, and make Musashi arrive late as usual, so he starts round one with a ten-second head start for Il Duce to warm up.
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