Rob Gronkowski Says He and Tom Brady Would Beat Travis Kelce, Patrick Mahomes in a Fist Fight

Winning Super Bowl LV by 22 points wasn't enough.

Rob Gronkowski insists that he and Tom Brady can not only beat the Kansas City Chiefs star duo of Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes on the field, but off of it too.

Gronkowski said that he and Brady would beat Mahomes and Kelce in a fist fight if they were to square off today, during an appearance on the Dan Patrick Show on Saturday.

"I think we'll take them down, I think we'll win," Gronkowski said when asked which duo would win in a fight today.

Gronkowski and Kelce are very evenly matched, physically, on paper. They are both 34 years old, while Gronkowski is one inch taller and listed as 15 pounds heavier. However, Kelce is still in playing shape, while Gronkowski has been retired from the NFL for almost two years.

Brady is 18 years older than Mahomes, two inches taller, but both are the same listed weight. However, Gronkowski believes Brady bring more physical toughness to the table due to the fact that he played in an era in the NFL that was more physically punishing on quarterbacks early in his career.

"I've seen some crazy, crazy highlights of Tom Brady when he was 24 years old, 25, and he absolutely go lit up harder than any quarterback I've ever seen in my life," Gronkowski said. "And he got up every single time, so you got to give him that credit."

Brady and Gronkowski famously defeated Mahomes and Kelce in the two biggest games they ever played in.

The first came the 2018 AFC Championship game, Mahomes's first as a starter and the first in a string of five straight appearances for the Chiefs. Brady and Gronkowski in their last year together on the New England Patriots, went into Arrowhead Stadium and won 37-31 in overtime. The Chiefs were three-point favorites. The Patriots had also beaten the Chiefs in the regular season that year 43-40 in October that season, which was Kansas City's first loss of the season at the time.

The Patriots went on to beat the Los Angeles Rams for their sixth Super Bowl title, and Gronkowski retired that offseason, while the Chiefs won the Super Bowl the following year. Gronkowski then came out of retirement to reunite with Brady on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2020.

Tampa Bay met the Chiefs in Super Bowl LV. Brady and Gronkowski led the Buccaneers to a dominant 31-9 victory for Brady's seventh career title. However, the Chiefs did get one in the regular season, defeating the Buccaneers 27-24 in November of that year.

Brady and Mahomes never faced off again in a game that featured Gronkowski after that.