Violence was a good part of my early 20s as I once shared a house with John and our friend Tran. Our place was the central hub for activity and rarely a dull moment (even Doug spent a fair bit of time there). We had our own impromptu UFC matches in the downstairs RecRoom, shot each other with bebe guns, and watched KungFu movies.
Of our favourites, Shoalin vs Llama was the most quoted and impacting movie to grace our overused VCR. We even kept an 8 foot wooden dowel in the corner that we named the Staff of Insolence. If you don’t know what that means, you need to see the movie. Now.
But I do have a point to this back story, so you can understand the excitement I had when I noticed that Cinematical pointed out an article at Double Viking listing the Top 10 Mano-a-Mano Fight Scenes of All Time
10. Fight Club: Narrator vs. Angel Face
9. Bloodsport: Frank Dux vs. Chong Li
8. Evil Dead 2: Ash vs. His Own Hand
7. Transformers: Megatron vs. Optimus Prime
6. Drunken Master 2: Wong Fei-hung vs. John
5. They Live: Nada vs. Frank
4. Return of the Dragon: Tang Lung vs. Colt
3. Rocky: Rocky Balboa vs. Ivan Drago
2. The Matrix: Neo vs. Agent Smith
1. Troy: Achilles vs. Hector
Click here to watch the videos of the Top 10 Mano-a-Man Fight Scenes of All Time
The Cinematical article lists one of my personal favourite KungFu Classics, the Five Deadly Venoms, and as I attempted to critique this list, combat involving weapons, sword fights or lightsabers all jump to mind, but this is all about man vs man slugging it out. I have to say I couldn’t have come up with a better list. They even included Optimus and Megatron. I love that fight.
Other honourable mentions that I would include would be the scrap between Dalton and Jimmy in Roadhouse.
What fight would you add to the list?
