OK, I have no weapons.
But if I have this, I’m pretty confident I can wear the cat down:
‘The suit has proven itself to be virtually indestructible. It has survived two strikes with a 136-kilogramme tree trunk, 18 collisions with a 3-tonne truck at 50 kilometres an hour, and numerous strikes by arrows, bullets, axes and baseball bats.’
Actually, the 2001 model of the Ursa (Mark V) suit you link to does have a helmet that a bear COULD rip off.
As such, I wouldn’t reccomend it.
You’d want to contact Troy Hurtubise
and arrange to get your hands on the current model, the Mark VI. The helmet on it is part of the top half of the suit.
Correction:
I was wrong about the name of the current model. My bad.
How about a human with no weapons versus a liger* without its skills in magic?
How about a liger vs a lloigor?
Another thing is that if you hit a human in the head, he’s pretty much disabled. Our gigantic brain with a eggshell thin skull is incredibly vulnerable.
Now take a look at a tiger skull. Massively thick bones. A punch in the nose or the back of the head isn’t going to disable a tiger like it can disable a human. It might make him back off and decide to kill something that doesn’t fight back, because tigers don’t like fair fights, they like sure things. Not even Chuck Norris can punch a tiger in the head hard enough to disable it.
If you’ve got a dog, feel around your dog’s head sometime. Their head is much less vulnerable than yours. Thick bone, small non-sloshable brain, and the jaw muscles wrap all the way around the skull and connect to a giant ridge on the top of the skull. A blow to the head that would kill a human can be shrugged off by a dog or cat, or heck, most animals. Our gigantic and vulnerable heads are the equivalent of the abdomens of honeypot ants, and I bet honeypot ant message boards are full of ants posting that in a honeypot ant vs beetle fight, you just give the beetle a nip on the soft engorged abdomen and he’s done for.
Why do these debates always exclude the use of improvised weapons? Disallowing A-10 ground attack aircraft is one thing, but you don’t really think a caveman without a spear would try to wrestle a lion, do you? He’d try to find a rock or big stick, or try to lead it over a cliff or something.
Well, if the human can try to trick the lion over a cliff, then why can’t the lion crouch behind some bushes and jump on the human when the human’s back is turned?
Either we’re talking a Roman Colosseum style matchup, or we’re not.
Of course a Masai hunter could fashion a weapon in short order and track and maybe kill a lion, even if dumped naked in the middle of the Serengeti. My mom, not so much.
In the real world, big cats would be extinct if humans decided to exterminate them instead of protecting them. But also in the real world big cat attacks on humans aren’t Thunderdome style matchups where two mammals enter, one mammal leaves. Instead it’s a big cat sneaking up on a human, armed or unarmed, and jumping them before the human has a chance to react. Or people who stick their hands in a tiger cage and then have the nerve to look surprised when they pull back a bloody stump.
[urgent whisper] Shhhh! Dude, he’s gonna HEAR YOU. [/uw] :eek:
I don’t think Confuse-A-Cat Ltd. could get to you fast enough to help.
Now, that’s the story Ray Bradbury should have written!
Heh. I love the goggles on the T-Rexes. 
What if you did something like jam your fist down its throat? Do you think it would asphyxiate before it could gnaw your arm off?
Semi-serious on this…
That has, in the past, worked with smaller cats.
I’m going to say a lion could probably dislodge your arm pretty quickly due to its size and strength.
What tell the lion that you’ve had loads of women and that you own a Porsche?
Not unless you told it you had a prepared Batman in the Porsche.
I’d throw in an oblique reference to Harvard, just to be safe.
Reminds me of the two blokes who become aware that they’re being stalked by a leopard .
One man starts running and his mate shouts out “Your wasting your time ,you cant outpace a leopard”
The running man shouts back “I dont have to ,Ionly have to outpace you”