Balrog is such a bizarre character the more you think about it, he's the first non playable boss character you fight in Street Fighter 2, in a game that has characters with super powers and mutants and the first villain character is a boxer who mostly follows the rules of boxing even outside of the ring in a street fight, wearing proper boxing attire , not to mention he's a general of an evil organization that resembles nazi germany with the leader's international name beind Dictator, Balrog being one of its generals is an african american boxer
>>712656967even weirder when his opposite Dudley who is supposed to be a classy boxer wears illegal boxing attire and even takes a rose with him in fights which would be an infraction in a ring and would be another to throw said rose especially because a thorn could cause an eye injury on top of it being harder to block a rose with boxing gloves on, Balrog doesn't have infractions until later games