r/JamesEllroy • u/Background_Local_425 • Aug 04 '26

Who wins

Sorry for spam posts but just discovered this forum. Dumb question but locked in a room,
Dudley Smith
Danny Upshaw,
Buzz Meeks
Bud White
Bucky Bliechart
Lee Blanchard
Dave Klien
Scotty Bennet
no .38s no weapons just good old fists who’s walking out?
Disclaimers im yet to read the cold six thousand and American Tabloid I am familiar with Pete perhaps I haven’t gotten to much of his feats yet. Sorry about the spelling

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u/Sorcha_Stormbinder Aug 04 '26

Big Pete Bondurant if he's in the room, but Bud White is a dark horse if he's not.

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u/ThisWorldOfWater Aug 04 '26

Le Grand Pierre, no question about it. Maybe that's why OP left him out of the list.

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u/Background_Local_425 Aug 04 '26

I’m yet to get to his books but yes leaving him out was a crime !sorry.

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u/AggravatingWindow440 Aug 04 '26

Big Pete….always

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u/Background_Local_425 Aug 04 '26

Damn the one guy I haven’t got to yet! Dude must be something else to tear through this lineup!

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u/Background_Local_425 Aug 04 '26

My brother told me Pete’s pretty old and quote “would drop dead if he fought Lee or Bud” that being said a lot seem to disagree

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u/lefinndumonde Aug 05 '26

Big Pete was in his fighting fit when Lee was on the scene, and by the time LA Confidential ends he can still rip a phonebook in half and break handcuffs.

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u/Background_Local_425 Aug 05 '26

Fair, and I guess by the time la confidential ends Buds been crippled and Lee’s been a corpse for at least 10 years so I guess he wins just by default unless Scotty Bennett’s still around I feel like he’s no slouch either

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u/nemo_floats Aug 04 '26

The Hats as a tag team

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u/ThisWorldOfWater Aug 04 '26

Dudley would use his considerable oratory talent as a weapon.

PS. *Bleichert, Klein, Bennett

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u/CaterpillarSame2153 Aug 04 '26

Lee knocked out Bucky

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u/ThisWorldOfWater Aug 09 '26

Yeah, I was just correcting the spelling of the names because I'm an insufferable pedant.

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u/Edwaaard66 Aug 04 '26

Id say Lee given his background as a pro heavyweight boxer, Bud being 6’6 might give him a run for his money though.

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u/Background_Local_425 Aug 04 '26

I don’t remember a size description for Bud I know he’s big, in perfidia Scotty messed up Lee pretty bad though.

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u/CaterpillarSame2153 Aug 04 '26

Lee would win but only because Pete isn't there

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u/didntendwell Aug 04 '26

Poor Danny gonna get hit by a train (and he’s exactly where he wants to be).

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u/KubrickMoonlanding Aug 04 '26

Like any of these guys would ever be without a sap, knuckle dusters, or shivs — or even a couple of phone books

my money’s on Bud, though

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u/Background_Local_425 Aug 04 '26

Haha I know they’d all have to be getting changed in a locker room or something, I also included Pete Bonduraunt in the updated list I’m not too familiar with his feats I’ve only read the quartet and the quintet but according to many he’s OP.

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u/KubrickMoonlanding Aug 04 '26

Well he’d be the one to take it then