Zangief in a fist fight: every matchup
“The Red Cyclone” · Street Fighter · 1991 · 7′0″ (213 cm), 256 lb (116 kg)
Russian pro wrestler who trains by wrestling bears in the Siberian snow. Loves his country, his muscles and the Spinning Piledriver.
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Did you know?
- His name comes from a real Soviet wrestler, Victor Zangiev, who was a star in Japan. His working name before that was Vodka Gobalsky.
- He trains by wrestling bears in Siberia.
- He loves to dance, especially the Cossack dance.
- In his Street Fighter II ending, he dances with a leader who looks a lot like Mikhail Gorbachev.
- At over 2 metres tall he is a giant, but Sagat is taller still.
- His Street Fighter II stage is a Soviet factory, with workers cheering from the sides.
- His Spinning Piledriver needs a full 360-degree turn of the joystick, which is famously hard to do.
- He has a cameo in Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph (2012), at a support group for video game bad guys.
- Andrew Bryniarski played him in the 1994 Street Fighter film.
- He is proud of his scars, most of them from bears.
Every fight (34)
- Zangief vs Idi Amin · The AI: Amin by DQ
- Zangief vs Samus Aran · The AI: Zangief by TKO
- Zangief vs Napoléon Bonaparte · The AI: Zangief by TKO
- Zangief vs Fidel Castro · The AI: Castro by DQ
- Zangief vs Master Chief · The AI: Master Chief by DQ
- Zangief vs Chun-Li · The AI: Chun-Li by Decision
- Zangief vs Winston Churchill · The AI: Churchill by DQ
- Zangief vs Ulysses S. Grant · The AI: Grant by DQ
- Zangief vs Adolf Hitler · The AI: Hitler by DQ
- Zangief vs Hitmonchan · The AI: Hitmonchan by DQ
- Zangief vs Saddam Hussein · The AI: Hussein by DQ
- Zangief vs Genghis Khan · The AI: Genghis by DQ
- Zangief vs Kirby · The AI: Kirby by DQ
- Zangief vs Knuckles · The AI: Zangief by TKO
- Zangief vs Abraham Lincoln · The AI: Lincoln by DQ
- Zangief vs Little Mac · The AI: Zangief by TKO
- Zangief vs Machamp · The AI: Machamp by TKO
- Zangief vs Mario · The AI: Zangief by DQ
- Zangief vs Audie Murphy · The AI: Murphy by DQ
- Zangief vs Miyamoto Musashi · The AI: Musashi by DQ
- Zangief vs Benito Mussolini · The AI: Zangief by TKO
- Zangief vs Horatio Nelson · The AI: Nelson by DQ
- Zangief vs Barack Obama · The AI: Zangief by TKO
- Zangief vs George S. Patton · The AI: Patton by DQ
- Zangief vs Pikachu · The AI: Pikachu by DQ
- Zangief vs Theodore Roosevelt · The AI: Roosevelt by DQ
- Zangief vs Ryu · The AI: Ryu by DQ
- Zangief vs Solid Snake · The AI: Snake by DQ
- Zangief vs Snorlax · The AI: Zangief by Decision
- Zangief vs Sonic · The AI: Sonic by DQ
- Zangief vs Joseph Stalin · The AI: Zangief by TKO
- Zangief vs Alexander the Great · The AI: Zangief by TKO
- Zangief vs George Washington · The AI: Zangief by TKO
- Zangief vs Yoshi · The AI: Zangief by TKO