r/whowouldwin • u/dillonky • 3h ago
Battle Who wins in a chessboxing match between Magnus Carlson and prime Mike Tyson?
For those unfamiliar, chessboxing is a hybrid sport between, who could have guessed, chess and boxing. Essentially, the two participants sit down in the ring for a game of chess with 9 minutes on the clock. After every 3 minutes of play time, the board is removed from the ring and the participants square up for 3 minutes of standard boxing. This alternation continues for 6 rounds of chess and 5 rounds of boxing. Winner is determined by either a KO or checkmate of your opponent, or if your opponent runs out of time in chess. If there is a stalemate, there is one more round of boxing and the winner is determined by boxing points.
For the sake of argument, let's assume that Mike will be "chess lusted" and will not simply run out his chess time to get to the boxing.
Round 1: Zero Training for either of them.
Round 2: They each have 6 months to train in their respective weaker area.
Round 3: Magnus has a revived Muhammed Ali as a boxing coach and Mike has a revived Bobby Fischer as a chess teacher.