User blog comment:Weew1213/The Man with no Name vs Rooster Cogburn (1969) "Gunslingers in 60's"/@comment-17814994-20160302103801

Elgb's "Oh Man... Finally... A Dream Battle Between John Wayne and Clint Frigging Eastwood. THANKS WEEW!!!" EDGES!!!

Melee: I'm not that sure if the Man actually used a bowie knife prominently. One of the few cases I see him use a blade weapon was in A Fistful of Dollars, and it was a machete. In this battle, it seems taht both warriors are using the same knife. But I'm giving this one to the Man, due to the fact that he is a master at throwing blades. If he can throw a friggin machete and pin a poor Mexican to a wall with it, then he has the edge. EDGE: The Man with No Name

Sidearm: Again Weew, I gott say that you need to improve your research. The picture of the Man's pistol doesn't look like a Colt Peacemaker... that's actually a Colt 1851 Navy. But still the Man did use a COlt Peacemaker in his previous films. Rooster is a great pistoleer, but he's no gunslinger. And surely he ain't as fast as the Man, who's known to gun down 4 people in one draw. EDGE: The Man with No Name

Shotgun: This I gotta give to Cognurn. His shotgun ain't no sawn-off, so it has the advantage of a shoulder stock and a rear sight. EDGE: Rooster Cogburn

Rifle: Winchesters tend to beat the old-fashioned Henry rifle/ Sharps rifle almost every time. It has the larger bullet, the faster rate of fire, easier chambering mechanism and a less-hastle reload mechanism. And this is John Wayne... I mean Rooster Cogburn we're talking here. He can friggin dual weild a rifle and pistol at the same time... on horseback! (which also inspired the Terminator 2 scene where the T800 fires a lever action shotgun on a friggin bike). EDGE: Rooster Cogburn

X-Factors: Rooster Cogburn is a civil war and range wars veteran, so he has a slight edge in training. In terms of skills, the Man with No Name's quickdraw beats the marksmanship of Cogburn. In a firefight the Man would surely kill our pin down Rooster. In terms of physicality, again I give this to the Man. He survived a friggin desert and a war for crying out loud. Rooster is nothing more than a cute drunkard (or John Wayne being himself again if you look at a different POV). EDGE: The Man

Deadliest Warrior?

I see this battle ending the same way as The Man with No Name vs Harry Callahan. While Rooster has the training advantage because he was a Civil War veteran and a US Marshall, he's still not on the same caliber of marksmanship and gunslinging ability of the Man. Clint Eastwood's character can gun down multiple men in one draw, perform impossible and physics-defying trick shots (such as shooting a man's hat off his head and shooting off a hangman's noose), and snipe bitches from hundreds of yards away. The only amazing, almost-superhuman feat Rooster ever did was dual weild a friggin rifle and pistol on horseback, which was cool and all, but not as awesome as what the Man can do. It also doesn't help that Rooster is a drunk bastard who easily gets knocked on his ass in most scenes of the movie.