Yamcha: Wins the Warmups, Sucks a Dick in Practice

Tough like an Irish Vagina

There has been a lot of love and hate circulating the internet lately about the merits of Yamcha as a Z warrior. The argument goes something like this:

Pro - Yamcha is consistently the strongest human alive in the Z series (evidence below)

• The only Z fighter to defeat Goku outright in a head on battle
• Yamcha defeats Recoome on King Kai's planet when Vegeta, Krillin, and Gohan could not scratch him
• Yamcha almost single handedly overpowers Picolo during the Frieza saga 
• Androids 19 and 20 mistaken Yamcha for Goku because of his high power level
• Yamcha can defeat Tien and Krillin in Heaven during the Buu saga

Con - Yamcha loses every important battle where something is on the line

• Defeated by Jackie Chun in the 1st martial arts world tournament
• Defeated by Bandages the Mummy 
• Defeated by Tien in the 2nd martial arts world tournament 
• Defeated by Kami in the 3rd martial arts world tournament
• Killed by a Saibaman in the Saiyan saga (only human to die in this fashion)
• Defeated by a Cell Jr.

Let's go ahead and clear something up. There is some discrepancy over whether Krillin is stronger than Yamcha near the end of DBZ - 

Yamcha: Let's put it this way, I definitely wouldn't want to fight him* (*Krillin, in the 2nd to last DBZ world martial arts tournament).

- but there is a large gap where Yamcha fails and Krillin rules. Yamcha wins every non-essential battle he faces, but loses everything that actually matters. This is akin to getting the best score for the warm-ups or the practice in an athletic event, but losing the actual game. It does not matter that Yamcha is the strongest or not at any point of DB or DBZ, since he loses everything worth a damn. Is Nappa, Vegeta, Frieza, Cell, or Majin Buu impressed with your warmup? I think not. 

Suck a dick Yamcha. Get stronger (where it counts).