In this feature, I examine comic book fights that were particularly notable in the wrong side winning (or at least that the fight wasn't won the "right" way). This really isn't a big deal, of course, as it doesn't really matter if the "wrong" person won a fight. But it's fun to talk about!

If you want to suggest a fight for future inclusion in this feature, drop me a line at bcronin@comicbookresources.com. Don't suggest a fight in the comments!

For the latest fight, we'll take a look at the time that Daredevil defeated the Black Widow in a couple of seconds.

The Black Widow is pretty darn badass. This can be seen in a number of different comics, but let me spotlight just a couple. In Marvel Two-in-One #10 (by Chris Claremont, Bob Brown and Klaus Janson), she has to keep some bad guys off of the Thing. So she then takes on ONE HUNDRED bad guys over a series of hours and defeats them ALL!









In her 2010 series (by Marjorie Liu and Daniel Acuna), she is so tough that after she is severely wounded, she WOKE UP DURING SURGERY AND THEN DID NOT MOVE A MUSCLE DURING THE SURGERY!!





That's insane!

So that was #1. Two issues later, after having just gone under major surgery, she STILL manages to fight Elektra (ELEKTRA!!) to a standstill...











Daredevil, for his part, is equally badass and likely even MORE so. He's held his own against Spider-Man, who is the most powerful being in the known universe. So I have no problem whatsoever with Daredevil defeating the Black Widow in battle. However, when you see HOW he defeats her in this given fight, well, I would imagine that you'll agree with me that this not the right way for this fight to go. So now on to the fight!

Here's the setup for Daredevil #4 by Kevin Smith, Joe Quesada and Jimmy Palmiotti. A baby has shown up and bad guys are trying to get at it. Daredevil gives the baby to his former lover, the Black Widow, for protection. What Daredevil doesn't know is that he has been drugged so that whenever he gets close to the baby, he believes that the baby is the antichrist and that he will do whatever he can to kill the baby (it also makes him act like a bit of a jerk in the process). So that leads to the following confrontation between Daredevil and Black Widow over the fate of the baby...









He then tries to kill himself and the baby by jumping off the roof, but manages to overcome the drugs and saves himself and the baby at the last minute.

Now let's toss the qualifiers out there. She DOES have a baby on her back. And Daredevil is acting kind of nuts.

Okay, the qualifiers are over with and the fight is still terrible. What the heck? That's it? He just grabs her kick and then knocks her out right away? That's not cool at all. That's just plain ol' wrong.

Okay, that's it for this week!

If you have other fights you'd like to suggest, e-mail me at bcronin@comicbookresources.com. DON'T suggest future fights in the comments section!