As anyone who’s seen footage of Steven Seagal recently can attest, the man’s not going to challenge Bruce Lee on the “clean living and healthy eating” front any time soon. Then again, Seagal’s robust physique might not necessarily be a bad thing. Unlike Lee, who moved away from clean Chinese martial arts form to create his own free-flowing Jeet Kune Do style, Seagal is a proficient black belter in his main style of Aikido, as well as Judo, Kendo and Karate. As his former associates (and anyone who has seen his movies) know, the big man preaches a form of Aikido that’s fairly ruthless and street-ready, which along with his massive size advantage should technically give him the ability of throwing a Bruce Lee-sized opponent around like a rag doll. 

Then again, people like Joe Rogan have pointed out that Seagal’s martial art of choice is virtually useless in a fight, and any opponent with an adequate skill level could shoot wrestle the man’s movie-move attempts to an early grave. Apart from this, a weakness in Seagal’s game seems to be his propensity to back from a challenge. As Sylvester Stallone recounts, Seagal was once challenged to a fight by a furious Jean-Claude Van Damme, and reacted by retreating to a night club … where Van Damme followed, only for Seagal to back down yet again. Stallone says Van Damme would most likely have won that fight — and we feel inclined to believe him.