The Man in Black vs Fezzik (until he got his Achilles Neck)
“you put down your rock and I’ll put down my sword and we’ll try to kill each other like civilized people?”
Jerry Mitchell vs Buddy Revell. Three O’Clock High
“Looks like it’s gonna be one of those days.”
Or Butch Cassidy vs Harvey Logan…
Rules? In a knife fight? (Kick to the balls–fight over)
First time I’ve ever heard anyone suggest ol’ Harvey was the hero of that movie. :dubious:
Another one: Robert Downey, Jr. in every fist fight his character gets into in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.
Of course the SAS man would kick your ass. But that’s because he’s stronger, faster, tougher, smarter, and more aggressive than you, not because he’s had extensive training in unarmed combat.
And he might very well have extensive training in unarmed combat, but if he does it’s because martial arts are what he does for fun, not because he was trained to fight that way in the military.
Angel vs. Hamilton in the final episode of Angel, “Not Fade Away”.
Marcus Hamilton: Let me say this as clearly as I can. You cannot beat me. I am a part of them. The Wolf, Ram, and Hart. Their strength flows through my veins. My blood is filled with their ancient power.
Angel: Can you pick out the one word there you probably shouldn’t have said?
love that line… heck, I love that whole fight… love that whole episode actually.
Mal was also severely outclassed by his fencing opponent in the Firefly episode, Shindig.
hijack - You’re a David Drake reader, aren’t you? One of my favorite lines from one of his books (said by a tanker of course) - “You don’t hit a man with your bare hand unless you’re naked and they’ve nailed your feet to the ground.”
In the Spenser novels, Spenser is a former pro boxer, the highlight of whose career was going six rounds with Jersey Joe Walcott, who was on the downside of his career at the time. In one book Spenser said, “That fight was where I learned the difference between being very good at fighting and being great at it.” Although there was no blow-by-blow description, it’s very clear that SOMEBODY got his ass handed to him.
In Snake Eyes, Nick Cage’s sleazy police detective is beaten up by the heavyweight boxing champion of the world, no less. He doesn’t fight back (this is a punishment beating, not a fight) - upon being told it’ll feel better if he tries, he staggers and mumbles, “I am trying”.
In the first** Highlander** when Connor MacLeod first meets The Kurgan he pulls back for a full armed swing and The Kurgan just stabs him. Not really a beat down but shows Connor didn’t know what he was doing in that battle.
Thats a bit harsh. You don’t even know me… sad face
If you’re going to mention Terminators, how about the original? Reese spent most of the movie running his ass off trying to get away from the Terminator, and even after using home-made dynamite to blow the Terminator in half, it still kept coming.
Maybe he’s just saying that in light of your username.
In “Early Autumn,” I remember Spenser talking to the ballet dancer kid about his boxing career. The kid asks Spenser something like “Could you beat my Dad in a fair fight?”
Spenser pretty much mocked the notion that there’s ever such a thing as a fair fight.
The way he put it was something like “Me against Joe Walcott fighting with our fists in a ring wasn’t a fair fight- he was a lot better than me. If I’d had a baseball bat, THEN it would have been a fair fight.”
I do like his military fiction, and we’ve traded emails (he picked my brains for a “first-hand account” of fighting an M-1 Abrams).
It’s from a game and not a movie, but the first fight against the endgame boss of Chrono Trigger is pretty much an embarrassing wipe-out for the party.
The lead in Brick gets in a series of fist fights - the first he wins easily, the second he wins mainly as a result of his ability to take punishment, and the third he knows from the start he’s going to lose. (The point is to convince his opponent of the sincerity of his intentions.)
You have a point! Still I like to think I’d at least put up a fight… 
Well, sure, but every hero in this thread has at least done that.