At the very moment when I write this, Chuck Norris is dead (or so it is claimed), and Steven Seagal is still alive (or so he claims).
But even then, the fight could be really close.
CHUCK NORRIS
In 1969, Norris successfully defended his Karate world champion title at the International Karate Championship. He was the All-American Karate champion at the time — a real competitive beast.
He became a movie star not much later, especially through his iconic role in Way of The Dragon (1972) — the single most influential and esthetic martial arts movie of all time if you ask me. In the scene above, we see Bruce Lee — who plays the main character — fighting against the main antagonist, played by Chuck Norris.
They became lifelong friends afterwards, deeply respecting each other’s skills.
STEVEN SEAGAL
A pathologically lying narcissistic tub of horse manure (and I do mean Steven Seagal, in case you were spontaneously thinking of some other American individual).
He claimed that he was a student of the founder of Aikido, Morihei Ueshiba, despite the fact that Ueshiba died in 1969 — a full five years before Seagal moved to Japan when he was 22.
They never actually met.
Allegedly, Seagal moved to Japan to avoid the Vietnam War draft by marrying a Japanese national. That’s the kind of “hero” he was and is: through spontaneous inventions and fabricated lies (and I am still talking about Steven Seagal, in case you would have been doubting a wee bit again).