Original Kirk got results...!
As much as I liked new Kirk, he got his ass kicked repeatledly, like Quincy says.
Be they Vulcans, Romulans, or Humans doing the kicking, his arse was the ground zero of arsekickings for beings from all round the galaxy it seems.
OS Kirk would have beaten them, cooked them, eaten them and made the sexy funtimes with their women.
Also the OS melee battle music was pure awesome.
That may have been part why he ruled in combat.
"Jim Kirk was a great man.... But that was another life, where people wouldn't keep kicking his asssssssssssssssssss......."- Nero, Star Trek XI
Exactly OS Kirk fared well against a insanely horny Spock, on Vulcan no less.
And lets not forget that he whipped the physically impressive and genetically engineered Khan too.
New Kirk would never have made it out of 'Space seed' alive, conducting fisticuffular business like that.
In fact im fairly convinced that a gang of four-to-six Tribbles would give new Kirk a run for his money..
Oh this is an actual H2H fight. I thought this thread was made for whose cooler or who do you prefer.
Never really cared for Shatner's Kirk or TOS for that matter. TNG/DS9 is cool. The movie was cool and I liked Pine's Kirk.
In a fight? Well in Shatner's time the choreography sucked as my video showed. And Pine got his butt whooped alot in the movie. But that made me like his character.