An Egyptian Man Plans to Fight, and Maybe Kill, a Lion

[Lukeje]

My thoughts? They should show this on Sky Sports, on pay-per-view, but first have a special 'Lion Day' on all Sky and Virgin Media channels where they show repeats of kid-friendly lion things, particularly Disney's The Lion King and it's sequels/spin-offs. Then when kids are happily watching those shows, have the channels switch to the fight, and have them watch the guy get eaten.

Yeah, I'm a particularly sadistic and cruel kind of guy ;D...

Yeah, getting kids to watch The Lion King; that's just nightmare fodder. You bastard.[footnote]To the Mods: this is meant in a playful, satirical way, and not actually intended as a flame.[/footnote]

As regards the OP... I really don't know what to say. If the man actually believes that this will help his country's economy, then he is obviously very naïve.

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

The lion, "Large bet on myself in the first round"

Seriously what the hell man have you ever seen a lion! There is reason those guys in Serengeti carry guns, and you want to fight this thing hand to hand? It has claws bigger than your face. I mean sure Samson in the bible did it, but you know he did kind of have Divine strength to back him up, and I'm also pretty sure the WWF is going to want to have few words with you. /rant

Oh well good luck to you mate, and I'd like to take the opportunity to congratulate Al-Sayed al-Essawy in advance for winning his Darwin award.

EDIT

In the spirit of balance I like to suggest that if he does actually win, he should follow it up with a tag team match against a grizzly bear and a great white shark, thats how you rake in the pay per view money.

 

[OldRat]

And now! The human, strong for his species, but objectively still a rather weak and utterly tool-dependent primate, faces off against the lion, larger, stronger, faster and with real natural weapons, evolved to hunt and kill prey much faster, larger and more dangerous than the human!

If there's betting, and the lion is a real, hungry, feral lion, then I'm putting all my money on "crushed and torn out windpipe right after the lion gets its shit together and wants its food less moving and noisy."

Then again, Zangief wrestled bears, so I guess he just might do it.

 

[Gitty101]

I hope he's joking... Seriously. A lion is immensely stronger then any human could hope to be and is naturally armed with claws and teeth evolved for the single purpose of killing. Fact of the matter is, Man vs Lion, Lion'll win.

 

[William Dickbringer]

oh please we're more civilized now we don't fight lions with our bare hands

...we have to wear gloves too

 

[Lunar Templar]

monies on the lion, it eats well before some one kills it

 

[Sporky111]

Errr....I think PETA is going to try and lynch the guy before he gets a chance to carry out his idea.

If he can fight a lion, I don't think a bunch of PETA members stand a chance in hell.

OT: I would watch this, sad to say.

I'd much rather watch him fight WITH the lion against PETA.

 

[Akytalusia]

in a fair fight, he'll die. most likely the lion will have a muzzle and clipped claws though, in which case... [processing possible outcomes...] boo.

 

[Frotality]

well id sure as hell pay to see that. if nothing else, hes putting life and limb on the line for his country...in his own special way.

 

[MrGalactus]

Poor bloody lion. I mean, I know the lion will tear him to shreds, but the lion probably doesn't want to fight a dude. This guy is a fucking idiot.

 

[fundayz]

He knows lions have claws right? A lion swipe will tear the face of the strongest man as easily as it will from the weakest.

 

[Flailing Escapist]

That's how I want to die, except make it a bear.

 

[Snake Plissken]

Since when are lions the strongest animals on the planet? Why would he make a ridiculous claim? Dude, go kill something bigger with your bare hands if you want to kill he "strongest creature on the planet". Go tackle an elephant or something. Or a giant squid. Yeah, do that. Moron.

 

[PunkRex]

I despise cruelty to animals yet this doesnt make me mad... because hes going to be eaten.

I respect strength and using it for the right reasons. This man counts but hes still unbelievably stupid. Sadly (in this case) the Lions going to mess him up.

If the internet is to be believed the average male African lion (which im guessing is the species taking part) is roughly 200kg and I know that there is an elite group of strong men in this world who can bench this, said weights wernt kitted out with razor sharpe claws and a bite pressure of something like (honestly the lions defiantly got a T Rex complex argument going on within the scientific comunity) 400-600 ibs.

 

[PunkRex]

That's how I want to die, except make it a bear.

I wanna go out like this guy

Clever girl.

 

[JasonKaotic]

I feel bad for the Lion though, being forced to fight and possibly killed.

This.
Even if the guy gets shredded, they'll probably kill the lion after.

I despise cruelty to animals yet this doesnt make me mad... because hes going to be eaten.

See above.

 

[Mr.Gompers]

I read this and immediately thought of Fezzik, although he was a Turk, not Egyptian....

 

[not-sid]

My money says five seconds in the fight the man will get knocked down by the lion and some random guy will shoot it. Still, this guy is awesome and itd be great if he won.

 

[Summerstorm]

Eh, just wanting to kill something because you can... is pretty mean. But if he REALLY goes in unarmed and gives the poor creature a chance, well then it's not AS evil.

Will be interesting though.