Horatio Nelson vs Barack Obama: 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.
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.
Barack Obama
“No Drama Obama” · United States · b. 1961 · 6′1″ (185 cm), 175 lb (79.4 kg)
44th President of the United States and commander-in-chief during the 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Serious pickup basketball player. A natural southpaw.
The crowd
Nobody has called this one yet.
The AI’s verdict (spoiler)
Obama by TKO. Nelson is giving up 20 cm and fighting with essentially one arm, having lost most of the other at Tenerife. Obama, a lifelong pickup-basketball grinder with a southpaw jab, just walks him down and pot-shots the blind side until Nelson's corner throws in the towel.
Fair fight? Give Nelson his right arm back — a fair fistfight needs two hands per man, not one and the memory of Tenerife.
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