User blog comment:Brobuscus101/Balrog VS TJ Combo DB Wikia Prediction Blog/@comment-2255534-20170810000016

At last, a boxing fighting fight. Even though I started out knowing little about these two, I just love watching agood round of boxing. Watched Hajime No Ippo, watched Muhammid Ali fights, I even have a boxing themed yugioh deck.

So since I have some general knowledge of boxing, let's see if I can offer some insight on Balrog and TJ Combo. While both are basically superhuman, I still feel the science of boxing can help us out here. And I believe TJ Combo has the advantage, which is a shame since Street Fighter needs a win right now.

Balrog, being a 300 pound slugger, would absolutely have the advantage in raw strength. His famous elephant punch is proof of that. TJ doesn't appear to have a stregnth feat that quite matches that, but even after losing his robotic parts, he's been able to punch people up in the air without them coming back down and took on numerous Fulgore units, so he's not exactly outclassed.

But when it comes to everywhere else, that's where an out-figher like TJ has over Balrog. Out-fighers tend to have the advantage over sluggers doe to their constant moving, longer reached hits, and tiring slower opponents out. A bulky fighter like Balrog would have this exact kind of problem, especially since TJ has been both practicing and actually studying boxing as a whole, while Balrog's entire career has focused purely on brute force. This simply makes TJ the much smarter fighter.

As mentioned before, Balrog has massive strength, and constant and consistent hitting punches could overpower TJ if he gets them all to hit. But not only would this be difficult to pull off due to TJ's mobility advantage, it wouldn't quite garuntee a win. TJ has impressive durability, as well as his small healing factor, would allow him to survive enough of the hits that would manage to reach him. An opponent that can take on slugger's punches is the absolute worst case scenario.

So from a boxing fan's POV, TJ Combo has the advantage, but the best part of boxing is that their's always an upset victory which, ironically, will make the the whole crowd cheer. Balrog's best bet is to get those brutal punches to land, but I believe TJ Combo can either avoid them in the long run, or survive them long enough to win in the late game.