12 Untrained Strongmen vs a Silverback Gorilla. Which side wins?

This is a pretty insane pic tho:

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For the strongmen to have any chance they would have to decide who among them would be the sacrificial lambs as the first wave of attack. Not the most envious way of leaving this earth lol
 
12 men of that strength would need to rush in at once, and one of them would have to be the one to savagely maul the silverback's testicles, baremouthed and no dental dam. The other gentlemen would have to make busy with every angle of the fight they find themselves in, that means breaking the things fingers and toes, biting off its softer tissues, reaching deeply into its anus with the destructive force of a whirling dervish delivering a colonoscopy in the process.

It's about team work. And the backbone of this motley muscled man alpha team is the fearless leader among them that decides everyone's fate, -that he can stare death in the face with a mouthful of silver fuzzy stinky ape testicles and deliver the bite the team needs for ultimate victory. Its all riding on him.
 
faustian said:
This is a pretty insane pic tho:

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For the strongmen to have any chance they would have to decide who among them would be the sacrificial lambs as the first wave of attack. Not the most envious way of leaving this earth lol
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Faustian, don't u love that Galactus is the best mutant at Xavier's school.
 
Bravo Four said:
12 men of that strength would need to rush in at once, and one of them would have to be the one to savagely maul the silverback's testicles, baremouthed and no dental dam. The other gentlemen would have to make busy with every angle of the fight they find themselves in, that means breaking the things fingers and toes, biting off its softer tissues, reaching deeply into its anus with the destructive force of a whirling dervish delivering a colonoscopy in the process.

It's about team work. And the backbone of this motley muscled man alpha team is the fearless leader among them that decides everyone's fate, -that he can stare death in the face with a mouthful of silver fuzzy stinky ape testicles and deliver the bite the team needs for ultimate victory. Its all riding on him.
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Lol post of the year contender :P
 
Bravo Four said:
12 men of that strength would need to rush in at once, and one of them would have to be the one to savagely maul the silverback's testicles, baremouthed and no dental dam. The other gentlemen would have to make busy with every angle of the fight they find themselves in, that means breaking the things fingers and toes, biting off its softer tissues, reaching deeply into its anus with the destructive force of a whirling dervish delivering a colonoscopy in the process.

It's about team work. And the backbone of this motley muscled man alpha team is the fearless leader among them that decides everyone's fate, -that he can stare death in the face with a mouthful of silver fuzzy stinky ape testicles and deliver the bite the team needs for ultimate victory. Its all riding on him.
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You should write books, seriously.
 
Would a RNC put a gorilla out?

I wonder if the 12 guys had a good game plan, would it work?

The gorilla is not likely to fight smart. It would like grab the first person it could, so you would have 2 guys latching on to each arm, 2 guys latching on to each leg, which leaves 4. The strongest human should try to choke the gorilla. The other three should punch/kick and distract it.

If it's not possible to chock out the gorilla, this probably ends bad for the human. Maybe if it gets tired, it gets interesting with like 5 humans taking on an exhausted gorilla.
 
faustian said:
Except 5 yos probably don't have the tactical intelligence to, say, form a circle around the gorilla and attack it from behind

Aside from like somehow getting lucky and using their bite force in the most opportunistic way possible, 5 yos don't really possess a level of strength that could do fatal damage to a grown adult. A strongman is capable of gouging out a gorilla's eyes or cramming fingers into a gorilla's ears/nose or putting his fist down a gorilla's throat, etc. 5 yos would also be looking up to a towering grown adult and be unable to even reach the adult's head while standing whereas a strongman would likely stand even with a gorilla
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Damn, who's going to put their fist down a gorilla's throat. That's a bad motherfucker.
 
What does no weapons mean?

If its in your typical forest or jungle, and you just mean the 12 guys aren't carrying manufactured weapons, its been played out many times in the distant past, and the humans almost always win (though you could argue those cave men were mentally and physically tougher than modern folk). In fact, the gorilla quickly turns and gets out of there. Rocks and branches are quickly turned into makeshift (as opposed to manufactured weapons) - there's a reason humans were the dominant species long before weapons were manufactured in an organized fashion (and even flint weapons were made in an organized fashion, before that it was just picking up wood for spears and rocks).

Twelve big guys with access to branches and rocks can do an amazing amount of damage. Even a tiger or lion wouldn't have much of a chance (again, this was played out countless times in the past). On the other hand something like a hippo, rhino or elephant would still easily win until flint weapons come into play.

For the gorilla to win it'd have to be in some artificial setting (ironically enough, some man made arena or the like).
 
Horse Style said:
I've seen this topic discussed in a different forum that I frequent. Interestingly enough, the responses were mixed. If you don't know what strongmen are, go watch a World's Strongest Man competition.

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That's an example of how big they are.

And here's your average silverback gorilla:

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The strongmen are untrained and don't have access to any weaponry. The fight is to the death. The battlefield is the octagon (bigger one).

Which side wins?
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Those guys Nike Shox have to be barely functioning.
 
Gorilla via buffet of living death
 
Kahran said:
You seem to be underrating a Silverback. Op also didn't mention anything about the human population. He said 12 untrained men, that's all.
Also, of course a Silverback Gorilla is stronger than a horse, where are you getting this shit from, lol.
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If you mean pure strength (ie pulling power), the horse is a lot stronger than a gorilla. Its not even close - you know that video of a female orangutan out pulling a sumo wrestler? A female horse would casually walk away dragging that sumo wrestler as if he wasn't even there. Horse power measures sustained output (ie a twelve hour day); a horse can put out much more power than that for a few minutes.

Look at it this way - ever watch a horse jump on equestrian shows? That's 1000+ pounds jumping considerably higher and further than a 600 pound gorilla can jump. It takes huge strength to get something that heavy that high. And show horses are small and weak by horse standards - old plow horses were over 2000 pounds and could pull out tree stumps.

Gorillas are better fighters than horses though.

Humans are just weak. Gorillas are much stronger than us, but even silverbacks generally lose to male lions (which are as big, as strong, and have better claws, jaws and teeth). And they've fought lions and big bears (like grizzlies) and the bears typically win (probably because they're 1500+ pounds and can break a horses back with one paw swipe). And then you get into elephants and rhinos ... twelve humans unarmed against an angry elephant is not something to visualize.

And yet gorillas, bears, lions, elephants and tigers are on the verge of extinction, because humans haven't fought without weapons for probably 50,000 years. Putting a human unarmed against any animal is very artificial; our caveman ancestors would have thought that absolutely daft, reached for their stone axe or spear and then show you how we're supposed to do it.

Something like MMA is a cool sport, but its not real fighting for humans. We're about weapons, and have been for a very long time.
 
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Theoretically the men could win but realistically it's unimaginable. Once the silverback pretty much crushes the first or second person, all the rest of the men would be demoralized and run for the hills.

First and foremost, the gorilla has fur and fat to protect it. Their skins are rather tough. With barefist there's just no chance. Meanwhile the gorilla's fangs and claws will cut through human skin like butter.
 
You need to give the humans a STRONG motivation to fight for it to even be imaginable. There is zero escape, this is a fight to the death, and if the humans lose, all their families die too.

Even in that situation, I honestly don't know how the humans could damage the gorilla without weapons. Choking it? No. Blows to the back of the head or spine? I doubt it but that may be their best shot.

Gorilla 10/10 times.

Give the humans access to improvised weapons and everything changes drastically.
 
Jesus Christ I laughed hard reading this thread.

Anyway, some of you are terribly misinformed. A gorilla would kill 12 strongmen easily. Very easily.

Zookeeper Gabe needs to weigh in on this thread.
 
If i were part of the strong men, I wouldnt want to bullrush the gorilla like many are suggesting, what about strategizing to run around as much as possible to tire it out. If it happens to chase one of the men another attempts to hit it from behind and distract it while the guy possibly escapes. Tire it out substantially and at least stand a chance.

Then again the strong men would probably gas from all the exertion too, so they are fucked either way.
 
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