The BEST episodes of Deadliest Warrior
Every episode of Deadliest Warrior ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Deadliest Warrior!
Each week on Deadliest Warrior, a new episode will pit two of the most feared warriors civilization has ever known against each other. Along with the use of 21st century science and the latest in CGI technology, each episode enlists warrior-specific world-class fighters and experts to provide insight into what makes these combatants tick, analyzing every facet of their unique skills of destruction, culminating in a head-to-head final fight between two legends of the battlefield that will produce the deadliest warrior.
#1 - Aztec Jaguar vs. Zande Warrior
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/11/2010
The Aztec Jaguar takes on the Zande Warrior in a battle that brings some of the fiercest weapons yet.
#2 - Vlad the Impaler vs. Sun Tzu
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/29/2010
The Transylvanian butcher who was the inspiration for the legendary Count Dracula faces China's deadly warlord and master strategist.
#3 - Vampires vs. Zombies
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/14/2011
Vampires are undead creatures that sustain their existence on the blood of living humans vs.Zombies, the living dead, deceased humans that have been given unnatural life to return from the grave.
#4 - Somali Pirates vs. Medellin Cartel
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 6/8/2010
Somali Pirates, modern-day, RPG-blasting hijackers of the high seas battle the Medellin Cartel, Colombia's most notorious drug lords. In this extraordinary matchup, these two brutal crime gangs will face off with machine guns, machetes and stunningly explosive car bombs.
#5 - Green Beret vs Spetsnaz
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/12/2009
Green Beret - America's elite special force, versus Spetsnaz - Russia's top-secret, top-notch commandos. Trained to kill anyone, any when, anywhere - these super soldiers use a devastating array of weapons and tactics. It's the best of the west against the beast from the east in a post cold war showdown.
#6 - Roman Centurion vs. Rajput
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/25/2010
Worlds collide when a Centurion, commander of Rome's bone-crushing army, takes on a Rajput, India's greatest fighter. In a fight to the finish, these two warriors face off using a chest-splitting javelin, a snake-like coiled sword, and a relentless battle-tank.
#7 - Attila the Hun vs. Alexander the Great
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/27/2010
Attila the Hun, the barbarian horseman who terrorized Europe, battles Alexander the Great, history's greatest military tactician.
#8 - Nazi SS vs. Viet Cong
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/18/2010
The Nazi SS, Adolf Hitler's homicidal shock troops of WW II , battle the Viet Cong, the murderous masters of jungle warfare. Two of the most lethal foes ever faced by American GIs square off in a bloody showdown using machine guns, flesh-burning flamethrowers, and flying poison spikes.
#9 - Spartan vs Ninja
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/21/2009
Spartan vs Ninja - the ultimate bronze age warrior meets the silent assassin from Japan.
#10 - IRA vs Taliban
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/31/2009
Two groups whose disregard for civilian casualties in the pursuit of their own agendas have made them infamous. IRA - the urban guerrilla from Ireland versus the Taliban mountain fighters from Afghanistan.
#11 - Persian Immortal vs. Celt
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/15/2010
A Persian Immortal, the professional killer that drove a 6th century BC war machine, battles a Celt, the giant Iron Age European clansman. Horse-drawn chariots rush to a deadly showdown with brutal sword beat-downs, spears, clubs and battle-axes.
#12 - SWAT vs. GSG-9
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/20/2010
An epic match-up featuring SWAT, the elite special forces of U.S. law enforcement, against Germany's GSG-9, the ultra-secretive paramilitary arm of the German Police. Utilizing sniper rifles, shot guns and paralyzing stun tools two of the world's toughest police forces will go head-to-head in an historic, never-before-seen firefight to the death.
#13 - Navy Seal vs. Israeli Commando
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/27/2010
The cunning American killers of both land and sea matches their skills with Israel's covert assassins.
#14 - Saddam Hussein vs. Pol Pot
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/17/2011
Chemical assassin and Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein goes head-to-head with Cambodian communist leader Pol Pot, whose Khmer Rouge troops filled Cambodia's killing fields with millions of innocent victims.
#15 - Genghis Khan vs. Hannibal
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/10/2011
Genghis Khan, Asia's cold-blooded world conqueror, and Hannibal, the brutal annihilator of the Roman Empire, face off to the death in a battle between two warriors who wrote the book on ancient combat.
#16 - Joan of Arc vs. William the Conqueror
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/27/2011
Deadliest Warrior finally has its first co-ed matchup when Joan of Arc squares off against William the Conqueror.
#17 - Comanche vs. Mongol
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 7/20/2010
The Native American commando is matched against the barbaric Asian warrior who conquered more territory than any other empire in history.
#18 - Jesse James vs. Al Capone
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/4/2010
Separated by 52 years and a generation of firepower technology, the Civil War-hardened Jesse James Gang is taking on the Tommy Gun-wielding "businessmen" from Chicago, Al Capone's Gang.
#19 - William Wallace vs Shaka Zulu
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/26/2009
Both fight for revenge. Both built an army to spill the blood of their enemies. Deadliest Warrior gets personal with a battle between two of the greatest warrior-generals that ever lived. William Wallace - claymore wielding wild man from Scotland versus Shaka Zulu whose ferocity, speed and toughness became legend.
#20 - Yakuza vs Mafia
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/5/2009
Mafia - the deadly crime family that rule New York's 1920's underworld, versus Yakuza - feared gang lords that dominate the mean streets of 1940's Tokyo. Their bloody turf war to decide who is deadliest will be settled with machine guns, sawed off shotguns, pistols, bats, nunchukus and icepicks.
#21 - Shaolin Monk vs Maori
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/19/2009
One fights for perfection; the other to honor his ancestors. A Shaolin Monk - the ultimate pacifist killing machine from China versus a Maori - fierce, bone-crushing warrior from New Zealand. Steel whips, metal spikes and wickedly versatile hooks versus wood, shark teeth, stingray spines and stone. The hardest weapon on the battlefield is not made of steel.
#22 - KGB vs. CIA
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 6/22/2010
KGB, the Kremlin's covert killers goes head-to-head with the CIA, America's clandestine assassins. Deadly spymasters of the Cold War face off with chilling top-secret arsenals: silenced mini-machine guns, exploding spikes, brutal shoe knives and neck-slicing garrote wires.
#23 - Ming Warrior vs. Musketeer
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 7/6/2010
Ming Warrior, the innovative killer who deployed exploding land-mines and flaming arrows to forge China's greatest empire faces off with the Musketeer, the elite French fighter whose skill with the rapier and musket were legendary.
#24 - Apache vs Gladiator
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/7/2009
An Apache - the greatest stealth fighter in American History, versus a Gladiator - crowd-thrilling killer of ancient Rome. It's stone versus steel, devious against direct, surprise versus slaughter, as these two go toe to toe in a no-holds barred battle to the death.
#25 - Viking vs Samurai
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/14/2009
The speed and fighting style of a Samurai warrior faced off with the strength and determination of a Nordic Viking.