ONE PAAAAAAAAAWNCH

Nah, they don’t cover acts of clowns

he stole Bout’s

Oh i didn’t think of that.

That makes sense. Strongman is *strong*, and his training, in all likelihood, was about how to leverage that strength in a more generally-useful way. He’s shown stopping a car, he threw Binky around, etc.

Bout is a Clown, someone who’s inherently going to have some sort of advantage or skill in order to even qualify for the training he’s receiving as a student at Pinfall’s Clown College, and his Routine is *entirely* about melee combat, specifically: punches.

It’s stated at one point that Binky started off similarly to Bout, as a melee fighter, who switched to confetti weaponry in order to give his hits some range, and Binky is still a big guy who can hit pretty hard, but Bout’s seemingly sticking with the melee focus and making it his whole thing, differentiating himself from his dad despite the similar starting point, so him just objectively being able to land incredibly powerful punches that other characters can’t match makes sense.

You need a car lifted off of somebody, you’d call Strongman (if he were still a clown, at least). If you’re in a fight and need somebody punched so hard that they go down, you call Bout.