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16 Sep 2020, 4:13 pm

Could the worlds strongest man defeat a large fully grown male silverback gorilla in a fight?

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16 Sep 2020, 5:46 pm

No.

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17 Sep 2020, 8:46 am

Jamesy wrote:

Could the worlds strongest man defeat a large fully grown male silverback gorilla in a fight?

There is only one way to find out.

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17 Sep 2020, 10:09 am

Putting aside the fact that strongmen aren't fighters; their primary advantage is their exceptional strength and they're being pitted against something that is at a minimum 20% stronger than they are. Plus, gorillas have a bite that narrowly beats out a grizzly bears in terms of force.

I'm assuming, of course, that weapons are off the table.

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17 Sep 2020, 11:35 am

If he had a gun - obviously :twisted:

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17 Sep 2020, 11:38 am

I dunno, think they can get those sausage-fingers inside the trigger guard?

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17 Sep 2020, 5:20 pm

Wolfram87 wrote:

I dunno, think they can get those sausage-fingers inside the trigger guard?

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17 Sep 2020, 5:21 pm

magz wrote:

If he had a gun - obviously :twisted:

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17 Sep 2020, 5:42 pm

too bad they can't just be friends just like koko and robin williams-

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17 Sep 2020, 6:03 pm

A male silver back is three times the weight of an average human male. Much more muscled. And has a much longer "reach". Mike Tyson in his prime would get his head torn off and stuffed up his rectum. If he werent bitten to death first.

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18 Sep 2020, 1:58 am

In fairness, the people vying for the title of "worlds strongest man" are quite far from average. Some of them weigh close to 200 kg, and some of them are literal mutants.

That being said, they'd still stand exactly no chance.

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20 Sep 2020, 6:47 pm

Wolfram87 wrote:

What about against a chimpanzee?

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20 Sep 2020, 6:56 pm

Jamesy wrote:

Wolfram87 wrote:

What about against a chimpanzee?

At least with the chimp they might be closer in weight, but still, likely no.

I won't insist that it's utterly impossible when you consider some of the animals that humans have been alleged to have killed bare-handed, but you're going to lose a lot of strong men before you lose a chimp to this experiment.

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20 Sep 2020, 8:08 pm

Jamesy wrote:

Wolfram87 wrote:

What about against a chimpanzee?

Chimps are about 2–3 times stronger then humans of the same weight. But the strongest man in the world weights like 300 pounds and maybe 8 times stronger then the average human. ... The chimp might get the human down and injured, but the strongest man in the world could crush its neck or head.

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20 Sep 2020, 8:09 pm

The gap in strength between a man and an adult male gorilla would be similar to the gap between a toddler and a grown man. The strongest man compared to a gorilla would be like an adolescent boy compared to a grown man.

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20 Sep 2020, 8:36 pm

the bite alone, of one of those hairy beasts [of the simian variety ] can break bones.

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