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<blockquote data-quote="Not a Decepticon" data-source="post: 9380698" data-attributes="member: 7020527">While not in these specific examples, a lot of fighting games or anime DO hve regular martial artists, boxers included, go toe to toe with superpowered beings and combat monsters. Some examples:* Kaolan Wongsawat, a.k.a. Thai God of War, from Kengan Ashura. Muai Thai champion who went to dominate international boxing scene, and actualy prefers using boxing as his main style, keeping Muai Thai as last resort. He's a newcomer to a tournament of that series, one featuring actual superhumans, and fights on even ground and even pushes into the corner Kanoh Agito, who is basically a result of a sick experiment at creating MMA equivalent of a super soldier:[MEDIA=youtube]legzoHPxhu0[/MEDIA][SPOILER=&quot;loses&quot;]Kanoh would only ever lose to Kuroki Gensai, an archetypical old master character and strongest character in the whole series so far, while Kaolan has only taken one other loss, through disqualification, to another boxer, Carlos Mendel, who uses Mexican boxing and whatever Capoeira he lerned &quot;in a week, from a book with 3 star rating on Amazon&quot;.[/SPOILER]<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Balrog (known in Japan as M. Bison) and Dudley in Street Fighter are two boxers with opposite philosophies - Balrog is an aggressive thug, while Dudley is a proper gentleman. They're bitter rivals, but it should be noted in one of the game's endings Balrog kills a charging elephant with a single hit, and both characters regurally square up against dozens of outright superhumans this franchise is full of.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">TJ Combo from Killer Instinct, who can kill mutant dinosaurs, defeat deadly cyborg Fullgore or Orchid, a secret agent who single-handly killed army-slaughtering monster Eyedol.</li>
</ul>So yes, the &quot;boxer goes toe to toe with superhumans&quot; is an established trope by now</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Not a Decepticon, post: 9380698, member: 7020527"] While not in these specific examples, a lot of fighting games or anime DO hve regular martial artists, boxers included, go toe to toe with superpowered beings and combat monsters. Some examples: * Kaolan Wongsawat, a.k.a. Thai God of War, from Kengan Ashura. Muai Thai champion who went to dominate international boxing scene, and actualy prefers using boxing as his main style, keeping Muai Thai as last resort. He's a newcomer to a tournament of that series, one featuring actual superhumans, and fights on even ground and even pushes into the corner Kanoh Agito, who is basically a result of a sick experiment at creating MMA equivalent of a super soldier: [MEDIA=youtube]legzoHPxhu0[/MEDIA] [SPOILER="loses"]Kanoh would only ever lose to Kuroki Gensai, an archetypical old master character and strongest character in the whole series so far, while Kaolan has only taken one other loss, through disqualification, to another boxer, Carlos Mendel, who uses Mexican boxing and whatever Capoeira he lerned "in a week, from a book with 3 star rating on Amazon".[/SPOILER] [LIST] [*]Balrog (known in Japan as M. Bison) and Dudley in Street Fighter are two boxers with opposite philosophies - Balrog is an aggressive thug, while Dudley is a proper gentleman. They're bitter rivals, but it should be noted in one of the game's endings Balrog kills a charging elephant with a single hit, and both characters regurally square up against dozens of outright superhumans this franchise is full of. [*]TJ Combo from Killer Instinct, who can kill mutant dinosaurs, defeat deadly cyborg Fullgore or Orchid, a secret agent who single-handly killed army-slaughtering monster Eyedol. [/LIST] So yes, the "boxer goes toe to toe with superhumans" is an established trope by now [/QUOTE]

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