Russian Diplomat Says Putin Would Win Wrestle Match With Australia's Abbott

[uhnope]

Source: Moscow Times

A Russian diplomat on Tuesday dismissed the Australian prime minister's threat of a physical confrontation with the Russian president as immature, warning that Vladimir Putin is a judo expert.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott intends to have a one-on-one meeting with Putin on the sidelines of a summit of the world's 20 biggest economies in Brisbane next month to demand Russian cooperation with a Dutch-led investigation into the shooting-down of a Malaysian airliner in Ukraine by Russian-backed separatists with the loss of 298 lives in July.

Abbott told reporters on Monday that he was "going to shirtfront Mr. Putin," using an Australian Rules Football term for a head-on shoulder charge to an opponent's chest aimed at knocking the opponent backward to the ground.

Abbott is an athletic 56-year-old former amateur boxer who famously punched his Treasurer Joe Hockey unconscious when they were both Sydney University students decades ago. Putin is a 62-year-old former KGB officer and judo black belt.

Read more: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/russian-diplomat-says-putin-would-win-wrestle-match-with-australia-s-abbott-/509412.html

[cosmicone]

1. I'd bet on Putin. n/t

[ballyhoo]

2. Putin. No contest.

[gordianot]

3. Diplomacy by personal combat, how refreshing it might save on body bags for civilians.

Elections everywhere might be more entertaining. You could even form tag teams as alliances. The planet would be much better off if you could re-purpose military spending. Not a bad idea.

[sharp_stick]

4. To The Death!

Let's put it on TV, I don't really give a shit who wins. In either case we'd be down one asshole when it was all said and done.

[C Moon]

5. Na na na naaaa na.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

6. Jesse Ventura has GOT to say something about this.

[DavidDvorkin]

7. I'd watch that on TV.

[Jack Rabbit]

8. Does this Russian diplomat really think that's important?

Does the press?

[elias49]

10. Of course not. But lots of us do!!

I think it's a riot AND a great idea. Think how much money a country could save by not building giant military machines!! Or, as is currently in vogue: "blood and treasure".
I'd take Barack Obama over David Cameron. He has b-ball moves!

[Jack Rabbit]

11. Ok . . . Jesse Ventura for President

He'd body slam Putin. We'll build a pipeline through Ukraine to bypass Russia.

Wait until he takes on America's worst enemies . . . the Koch brothers.

[Scootaloo]

13. Well, Abbot made the dumbassed threat.

So the Russians are howling and mocking the shit out of him for it.

Seriously, even Bush wouldn't have said something as redonkulous as Abbot did.

But then, Coke-addled Texans with lukewarm IQ's are still a step ahead of the average Australian Liberal Party politician

[tclambert]

9. Two men enter, one man leaves

[quakerboy]

12. Perhaps, but who would win a thumb wrestling match, Obama or Putin?

And by thumb wrestling, I mean with the red switch.

Because in one on one physical wrestling matches, I couldn't give a flying fuck who would win. I mean, FDR was in a wheelchair, and he would eat Putin, Abbot, and Obama's lunches in every way that could ever really matter.

[FrodosPet]

14. I just want to hear Paul Heyman saying...

"Vladimir Putin!"

[Faux pas]

15. Just shows what

knuckle dragging thugs they are. Hope they televise it!