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.
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.
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.
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.
Animals can be dangerous. They are also dangerous to HW champions.
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.
