I think he did pretty decent against Iron Man, all things considered, considering he's just a super-strong guy versus a man in a superpowered armored suit with an array of gadgets and weapons at his fingertips.
True, although that was largely a consequence of Tony being nerfed in order to make that fight remotely plausible. The Mark 6 was able to go toe to toe with Thor but we're supposed to believe that Cap and Bucky are a match for the Mark 46? Really? And even so, the fight ended with Bucky unconscious on the floor and his arm totally incinerated.
CW is my second favourite MCU movie but there's no doubt that the Russo's had to mess with the pre-established power levels of these characters to make their big 3rd act set-piece work.
I still say he should have done better against The Flagsmashers though. Unlike Iron Man or Spider-Man, The Flagsmashers were just....strong people, without any other superpowers, and thus more comparable to Bucky himself. And Bucky previously went toe-to-toe pretty evenly against Steve Rogers, who is a super-soldier with combat training and fighting skills which The Flagsmashers don't have.
I agree that he should have done better against Karli and her motley crew, although he's not the only one about whom this can be said. Karli shouldn't have been a match for Walker either, given his extensive military training and yet she was beating him in H2H. They could have solved this problem by having Batroc work with the Flag-Smashers from the beginning and they could have explained that he had trained them.
But alas, unfortunately they didn't and as a result the origins of Karli's expertise in CQC must remain a mystery.
Maybe Mama Donya was a secret black-belt?
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