Ryu vs Joseph Stalin: 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.
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.
Joseph Stalin
“Uncle Joe” · Georgia / Soviet Union · 1878–1953 · about 5′5″ (165 cm), about 165 lb (75 kg)
Dictator of the Soviet Union from the 1920s until 1953. Led the USSR to victory over Nazi Germany while his purges, famines and labour camps killed millions. His left arm was stiff and shortened from childhood.
The crowd
Nobody has called this one yet.
The AI’s verdict (spoiler)
Ryu by TKO. Stalin gives up 10 cm and 10 kg and has a stiff left arm to guard with, so Ryu's Shoryuken finds the chin early in round two. The self-declared "man of steel" turns out to be more of a man of tin, and the referee stops it.
Fair fight? Ban Ryu's Shoryuken and Tatsumaki kicks so he can only jab. Stalin might then survive three rounds and lose a decision, which he'd still call a victory.
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