Originally Posted by
Nik Hasta
Baki as far back as Son of Ogre, was strong enough to beat Oliva in a straight up, no-defence slugfest.
Prior to that, in the same encounter, Oliva tackled Baki through multiple reinforced concrete prison walls without an issue, Baki smashed through a foot thick wall without even realising that he'd done it. Baki also blew a crater in a concrete wall by flexing his back on it.
Pickle tore apart a truck with his bare hands like it was a toy and was shown to be about even with Karou and Baki went toe-to-toe with him and kind of... won the fight? Or rather could have one but he decided to the old "no defence, just punching," bit.
Though, to Itagaki's credit, Baki's internal monologue is like; "This is a horrible idea but I wanna do it,"