How powerful is the ancient martial arts champion? How does it compare with the current champion? The emphasis of the two trainings is different. Boxers focus on agility, footwork flexibility and squat training, because squat strength is the biggest source of punch strength.
With bare hands, the abdominal muscles equivalent to the shield ability are the focus of boxer training. The training of top martial arts masters is completely different. The examination for the top martial arts scholar is epee dancing, riding and shooting, walking on stilts and moving big stones. The key point is that whether riding or walking, you can pull a hard bow and shoot opponents who are still and running.
You can wield weapons and kill for a long time, which is powerful. Put on armor and pick up weapons to fight for a long time on the battlefield. Because a battle may last for days or even months.
Wu Zhuangyuan's unarmed combat ability is not the key point, and he has never been tested. After all, in the battlefield where swords and guns are like forests and ten thousand people are fighting, everyone is armed to the teeth, wearing armor, muskets and cannons, spears and strong bows, and the unarmed combat ability is completely useless.
What the champion of Wu wants is whether he can split the enemy of real armor with one knife, and at the same time, whether he can keep waving a broadsword or spear to move forward and open a breakthrough, rather than whether he can keep dodging in the ring and hit his opponent in the head with one punch.
Perhaps in the same heavyweight, the champion can't beat the professional champion without protection and unarmed combat, but if you fight with cold weapons and shoot arrows on horseback, then the champion Wu will be an absolute advantage.