Grappling a gorilla isn't something anyone would ever think about doing in the first place. The fact of the matter is, as soon as it lays a hand on you, you're being rag dolled, as soon as it hits you, you're on the floor, as soon as it gets its arms around you, you're dead, and as soon as it bites you, you've lost half of your face. Strength isn't everything in a fight. That much is true... for human fights. A gorilla is in a different league in terms of strength. You wouldn't use the same argument against a bear would you? There comes a point where strength trumps skill every time. And a gorilla represents one of those times.

You are wrong. If it hits you, you aren't instantly hitting the floor. IF it bites you, you aren't losing half your face. If its arms get you, you aren't dead.

1. I would use the same argument with a bear.

2. Gorillas are actually stronger than bears.

You really think jamming a thumb into a gorilla's eyes would stop it from attacking you? If you do that, you'd likely just piss it off. The most you could realistically do from that is blind it, and at that point it already has its arms around you. You'd be dead. And a person isn't knocking out a gorilla with an elbow. They regularly take hits from other gorillas, an elbow isn't doing jack.

You are wrong, jamming your thumb in its eye would not just piss it off, it would also hurt it very badly.

And even if it gets pissed off, you could blind its other eye.

A person can definitely knock out a gorilla with his elbow if he shakes the gorillas brain within its head sufficiently enough.

Prove it. And even so, in all likelihood if you went to block it you'd be sent flying. Here's a cool little excerpt from the Guinness book of records detailing the strength of chimps: From the Guinness book of records 1975 In 1924 "Boma" a 165Lbs male chimp at the Bronx zoo, New York, recorded a right handed pull (feet braced) of 847 Lbs on a dynamometer.(the comparison given is 210Lbs for a man of the same weight). On another occasion, "Suzette" registered a pull of 1260 Lbs while in a rage (same zoo). A record form the USA of a 100Lbs chimp achieving a dead lift of 600 Lbs with ease sugests that, with training, a Male gorilla could raise 1800 Lbs.

It's not possible to prove a negative of that manner, you would have to prove the latter. No you would not get sent flying.

Again, they aren't strong enough to outmatch the skill.

Note that these are chimps, not gorillas. I don't think I need to explain the difference, do I? Gorillas are much, much stronger then humans, nobody is going blow for blow with a gorilla.

You are wrong. You have yet to prove that a human can't go blow for blow with a gorilla. Skill > Strength.

That's also inviting it to eat your face :) Gorillas have an average PSI bite force of 1300, which is ridiculously high. Simply put, they could eat your face pretty damn easily. Not to mention that gorillas regularly fight each other in the wild, so they're built to take blows from other gorillas. Not sure a head butt would do all that much damage. It would just piss it off.

No it won't eat your face if you head butt its nose, it would let you go for a while. It wouldn't eat your face easily if you don't let it.

A head butt would not just piss it off, it would also hurt it as well. And no, gorillas don't know the soft spots of how to knock each other out like humans do, they aren't that smart.

A human can't choke a gorilla to death. And just what do you think would happen if you were to do that anyway? It'd fling you off then eat your face, that's what would happen. Do you honestly think a normal bloke can hold down a gorilla? Lol

No it wouldn't fling you off, because it wouldn't be able to. And yes a human can choke a gorilla to death.

The headlock wouldn't hold down the gorilla but it would choke the gorilla while it was running around. It wouldn't be able to fling you off.

Now that's just plain untrue.

It's plain true.

Good luck even getting your arms around that, let alone choking it out. Simply put, nobody is fighting a silverback (unarmed) and winning. It's not a thing a human can accomplish. Give the guy a combat knife or something along those lines and I could see it being a lot closer (I can see arguments of the guy dying, with the gorilla going shortly afterwards). But unarmed? No chance.

That picture shows how easy it would be to put your arms around its neck when it charges at you. Good job debunking yourself.

Simply put it, any well trained martial artist can beat an unarmed gorilla and win. It's a thing a human can accomplish.

Weapons are not necessary.

A well trained human can effortlessly defeat a gorilla.