User blog comment:Gekkou30/Colonel Volgin vs Steven Armstrong Who's Stronger?/@comment-74.205.150.147-20130518222547

Armstrong takes the win with or without nanomachines. The nanomachine would mean a massacre for Volgin, but without, Volgin would still get creamed like he creamed Snake for hurting Raikov.

As mentioned by Gekkou25, he was in the military and went through college football, both making you very tough. The navy would make you ten times as tough as any football league would. Both train you to be hard hitters, and take hard hits(well the navy trains you to take alot of pain related stuff). And obviously the military has taught him to fight, tho he is quite the brawler already without fighting tecniques. Volgin just looks like he is a boxer, and the funny thing is, he only uses it on people, who arent equally skilled. He beat up Granin, and was he a fighter? No! Then he beats up the Scientist. Was he a fighter? No! Then he beats up Snake. Snake would have won easily due to CQC but thanks to the boss disabling Snake, Volgin pummeled him. How tough to beat a guy whos already been downed. Then he beats up Eva. A Woman for crying out loud! How tough is that? Seriously, why doesnt he fight any guys who are equally skilled. The Boss tossed him down easily, and would have done more if she wasn't on the same side. He even feared her? Volgin acts macho but he really is just a wuss who likes to exploit his strength and electricity on the weak and immobile, like when torturing Snake.

Armstrong Beat Raiden, and Raiden could easily dice up Volgin. Volgins only special power is electricity, which could be easily avoided, and even absorbed or used against him-like if you got him wet. Ocelot shot his bolts and ultimately sent the shock back to him.

Armstrong is a fighter, not one who picks on the lil guy. His physique is way more impressive, his fighting style, 10 million times better than Volgins-that is, if Volgin was a fighter. Secondly, Armstrong, if he was hit by the the bolts, could take electricity better then most. Navy guys arent trained to be wimps. That means in any situation against anything they are trained to shrug it off or eat it and keep going. And if he's superhuman, he could take lots more than any tough individual, even those who can take small bursts of electricity without wincing. And who's to say Volgin could hit him. Armstrong would either be parrying hits, dodging, or countering. He seems to absorb electricity, as well as being fueled and powered by it. Whats more important is  if Volgin is even able to hit him. He might be to busy eating punches to throw anything, anything that'll hurt anyway. And Getting hit, by anything, from blades to punches never seem to hurt Steven. As the senator said himself, "You can't hurt me." That being even more true with nanomachines. And his Excellus would crush the shagohad.

I haven't seen anything from volgin impressive except for his control of electricity, and even The boss could beat him, and Snake did beat him in the end. So if you think Armstrong cant then....Wow.

Volgin isn't equal on any level to Armstrong, if you actually think about it, and if your not playing fanboy *ahem* TheMilkman.

And for the record, hes not sexy. but if you think that then I can see why you would want him to win. But being his lover wont give him any more chance. try and find some better arguments than simply "Hes volgin.." I could say the same about Armstrong, and that would be more then enough to state the winner.