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Wario has the better strength feat against a living opponent - Dino Mighty from Wario World's a good deal larger than the biggest baddy DK's tossed around with his bare hands, that being the Ghastly King from Jungle Beat. He's also very much more durable, even taking pure indestructibility out of it, he tried to blow himself up and just sort of mildly inconvenienced himself.

https://youtu.be/_g-NLYOSPjk

However, the issue is that Wario... kind of sucks as a fighter? Like he's a fantastic wallbreaker, you put him up against an armored knight and he takes the sword to the face, then punches them into next week. But from a technical sense, Wario is a pure street brawler who relies on being able to take a hit in order to land an even better one. DK... is gonna land the better hit from a pure force perspective, enough to blow Wario away more likely than not. The question is less "can DK beat Wario" and is more "can DK hit Wario away enough times that Wario gets bored and leaves?" Because Wario doesn't really have a super to close this out with - the waft only really has Smash to go off of, Wario-Man's greatest actual feat is losing to a steam train, and in general Wario is a "throw the magic back at the genie/clown-god/ancient spirit" kind of guy.

I think DK would eventually defeat Wario via forfeit. But if it comes to "they fight to the death in an enclosed arena that neither of them can break", then nah, Wario wins via simply being too stubborn to kill with blunt force. Might get knocked unconscious if that counts, though.