I heard that Wolverine whooped off on BP during that CONTEST OF CHAMPIONS thing,and I heard that Cap decisively won their encounter,not a narrow victory.But if what you say is true,and prior to REGINALD's run BP was 0-1-1 with throwdowns against CAP,then his overall record is 1-1-1...similar to the SUPER PATRIOT/US AGENT and right now,that CROSSBONES dude in Brubaker's Cap is 1-0 against Cap (yeah,Cap was going through the "mental time travel" extenuating circumstance,but still...)
Interesting how our fanbratti can accept CAP losing to CROSSBONES without much of a squawk at all, won't say a word when the ANTI-CAP is handing Cap his hat (remember PRIEST'S CAP&FALCON?),but will lose every particle of their minds if BP beats Cap.Somehow,I think that the louder shriek came when Cap lost to a Black man...but nope,that has NOTHING to do with racism.
Black Panther vs Wolverine - "Contest Of Champions":
It's been awhile since I'd read that series and - as Damon's correction of my erroneous recounting of events demonstrated - my memory of what actually happened is hazy. I must have lost the brain cells in which the information regarding these particular events were stored. However, I do think my memory serves in this instance. Wolverine did not "whoop" the Panther in their encounter. As with T'Challa's encounter with Cap in "Contest Of Champions II", it appeared that he wasn't going all out against Wolverine...who conversely, was going all out. Because of this disparity in comparative efforts between the two combatants, Wolverine did achieve somewhat of an advantage, but T'Challa had him in check. By no means was T'Challa ever over-matched by Wolverine. "The troll" went into something approaching his over-played, over-hyped "berserker rage" and unsheathed his adamantium claws...like an idiot. T'Challa asked, "Wolverine, this is only a game. Why do you unsheath your claws?" Loopy Logan then responded with something like, "This is a fight and any fight I'm in is a fight worth winning." I probably didn't quote Wolverine verbatim. I'm sure Damon could straighten me out on the details. But if Wolverine was in fact in his "berserker rage", T'Challa was handling him. Yes, T'Challa was on his back. However, he had Wolverine by both wrists and was preventing him from pressing any advantage he might have gained by losing his mind. Had the fight continued to its conclusion, there is no doubt in this Black Panther fan's mind that T'Challa would have literally wiped up the floor with Wolverine. In "Contest Of Champions II", T'Challa was stalking Captain America who was straining his every sense to maximum to try to detect his presence, which he did at the last possible time. Both Cap and T'Challa executed well enough in their "bout", but T'Challa's inner conflict between the part of his nature that is "predator" and the other part which recognized Captain America as a noble person and a personal friend proved to be the difference that allowed Cap to gain the eventual "narrow victory".
Now back to Wolverine for a minute. This character is either a perpetual retcon or one that is constantly evolving. Initially, Wolverine's "berserker rage" and "snikt" was what defined him. Cyclops illustrated this best when after the X-Men had been put through the ringer and badly shaken by Moira McTaggert's mutant son, "Proteus", Cyclops staged an impromptu battle to "test" the battle readiness of those X-Men affected, Nightcrawler, Wolverine and Storm. Cyclops was able to goad Wolverine into attacking him and was pleased when Wolverine reacted like the savage he was at that time. To paraphrase Cyclops, "That's it fella. No subtlety at all to his attack. Just a head-on charge." Wolverine was all adamantium claws, bad attitude and mayhem at that time. But after having journeyed to Japan and meeting Mariko, another side of Wolverine not seen before, began to surface. For some reason...in some way, this berserker "Weapon X" lunatic became something of a Samurai warrior, complete with methods of meditating for inner peace and refined fighting techniques....somethng he didn't have when he fought T'Challa in "Contest Of Champions I". The rough-talking, rough-housing malcontent Wolverine suddenly becomes Kitty Pryde's "sensei" and ushers her into her "Shadowcat" persona.
What-is-up-with-that?
As for the Panther's encounter with Cap during WWII, obviously that couldn't have been T'Challa. If it had been T'Challa, he would have to be as old as Cap (and the Patriot), are today. That would be pretty doggone old. The Black Panther who fought Cap to a draw in Priest's "First Contact" was and the Black Panther who won a decisive victory over Cap in Hudlin's version was T'Chaka, not T'Challa.
This being the case, it would be T'Chaka 1 - 0 - 1 against Cap while his son T'Challa would be 0 - 1 - 1.
