No, I don't think we agree muchl. Plus, my advice stays put: the HW should enter that cage with a rifle. The chimp is dangerous for him.
I disagree with your interpretation of the video: it's anecdotal evidence of nothing. The man is there to feed them and so on, and the chimps are being unpredictable chimps. You cannot judge "strength" from that video, precisely because you cannot judge what the chimps were doing. Behaviour specialists would disagree on what went on there.
Now you're just in denial because you don't want your image of chimps to be proven wrong. Anybody including experts would look at that tape and see a Chimp going 100% in trying to overpower and man handle that man, and it was a pathetic display at best considering that average human wasn't fighting back, on the contrary he did everything he could(not literally) to make the Chimp look impressive and it still failed. That video, completely debunks all the herculean myths involvings chimpanzees.
Put a lethal human being in there instead and that chimp gets destroyed. Thrown around by a bigger, stronger more skilled creature, smashed in the head at will, you name it.
X times stronger than humans my hairy ape ass.
The "strongmen" competitions you mentioned, and most human-based physical stunts you propose are designed for the human anatomy. Bears, tigers and sharks would also not be capable of lifting these weights and so on. All these animals would kill and if hungry, consume the flesh of any human. Nature allows for many forms of attacks to be effective.
Change the "drill". Humans cannot do "chimp activities" as effectively. We need ropes and safety nets, and the speed up tree trunks like we walk around. That's their "normal", which partially explains their disproportionate arms.
In other words human beings are the superior species. Yes indeed, "it's not fair cause chimps aren't evolved for this". What does that tell you.
And yet the general (mis)conception is that chimps will wreck humans in ANY form of weight lifting and strength display.
Also go ahead and change the drill. I already admitted that chimps would win in body weight feats that involve things like pulling themselves up and what not. It is a very, very limited form of strength that they would thrive in, you know why right? Because they have short, weak legs and core unlike humans.
Because they are so limited, it is completely unfair to say that chimps are stronger than our strongest humans in general.
You expect the animal that evolved for a different way of life to perform in a "human way" in a "fight"? They won't, they cannot. It does not matter how strong their legs or whatever are. The danger for your fighter is precisely that it is a wild animal that will defend itself with extreme speed and strength. It's unpredictable, it's not a fight: it's a risk for the physical integrity of the fighter. A lot of "human combat" is based on knocking the opponent out, which correlates to how our brains sit inside our skulls. Other animals do not have the same skull anatomy: there is no guarantee our approach is useful at all. Then what? Hold them down and hurt them and so on? Well, it's animal cruelty and so on, but the animal in consideration, a chimp, can maul someone's face with it's hands. So you put a glove on the chimp to avoid that? Then stop the exercise, the whole thing makes no sense.
Do you have evidence to support this please? I'd like to see proof of chimps having skulls that aren't prone to blunt force trauma causing KO's.
Then again, why are you mismatching the weight category? Take a young gorilla that weighs the same as the HW. Your fight isn't fair.
I already said this: a real chimp can be scared of a normal sized human and just run away. But it can also go "ape-shit" and really hurt a HW champ. They are completely unpredictable.
I never once mentioned Gorilla's. That's a whole other topic, and I think at times you're confusing Gorillas and Chimps.
Also, how is the chimp gonna beat the HW champ please? Teeth, yes, I know they have dangerous bites. But what else is it going to do? What else is the short, weak legged midget who is 3 to 4 feet tall and less than 200lbs going to do exactly, with its uncoordinated flailing arms?
