Dredd's got high-end combat feats coming out of his ears. He's beaten the literal biblical Satan in one-on-one combat on two separate occasions; killed at least two planetary-level sorcerers/reality warpers; marched into a hell dimension, killed all of the higher demons (who were described as being the psionic templates for all sin on Earth) and forced the whole dimension into a unconditional surrender etc etc.
Of more relevance to this kind of fight is how the two tend to compare against A-list street level types. Dredd's got an exemplary record on that front, including of course the well-known Batman fight (which, for the record, I don't consider to be Dredd's best h2h showing). As I said earlier, there are some showings for Blade I've seen where his stats are played up that I think are a bit beyond Dredd (the Deadpool one springs to mind). But is Blade - on average - portrayed as a guy who would equal the goddamn Batman in straight h2h? I'm not so sure.
But of course, he felt he owed Bruce a favor, and was keeping him from an encounter that would have ended very badly for him.
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I don't think any one high-end showing can be considered as elevating a character like that. Dredd is very explicitly not superhuman or enhanced in any way (apart from his eyes which are bionic). He's about as strong as an unenhanced comic human gets, and like all guys in that sort of ballpark (Batman, Daredevil etc) he has feats which would by any real world measure be blatantly superhuman.
At a basic, conceptual level however - and, equally importantly, in terms of average performance levels - he's definitely not as strong as Cap or Wolverine IMHO. He could give either a hell of a fight mind you.
when people fight they are usually pissed. secondly we can see the predator fighting back which means he wasnt just standing and recieving the beating its not in their character and not in the scan.