go up against

Strongest matches

• cope
• fight
• oppose
• repel
• resist
• withstand

Strong matches

• battle
• buck
• clash
• contend
• contest
• defy
• dispute
• duel
• engage
• strive
• struggle
• traverse
• war

Weak matches

• cross swords with
• do battle with
• put up a fight
• shoot it out

Strongest matches

• accost
• defy
• encounter
• meet
• oppose
• repel
• resist

Strong matches

• affront
• beard
• brave
• dare
• flout
• front
• scorn
• withstand

Weak matches

• call one's bluff
• come up against
• face down
• face off
• face up to
• face with
• go one-on-one
• make my day
• meet eyeball-to-eyeball
• stand up to
• tell off

Strongest matches

• allow
• challenge
• confront
• deal with
• encounter
• endure
• experience
• fight
• meet
• oppose
• risk
• run into
• suffer
• take

Strong matches

• abide
• accost
• affront
• bear
• beard
• brace
• brave
• brook
• contend
• countenance
• court
• cross
• dare
• defy
• eyeball
• resist
• stand
• stomach
• submit
• sustain
• swallow
• tolerate
• venture
• withstand

Weak matches

• be confronted by
• bit the bullet
• cope with
• fly in face of
• grapple with
• make a stand
• square off
• take it
• take on
• take the bull by the horns
• tell off

Strong matches

• argue
• brave
• challenge
• confront
• dare
• defy
• go one-on-one
• take on

Strongest matches

• compete
• contend
• grapple

Strong matches

• battle
• brawl
• buck
• contest
• hassle
• romp
• rough-house
• row
• scrap
• scuffle
• shuffle
• slug
• smack
• tangle

Weak matches

• bump heads
• cross swords
• lock horns
• put up a fight

Weak matches

• brave
• buck
• call out
• confront
• dare
• defy
• denounce
• dispute
• face-off
• go eyeball to eyeball with
• go one on one with
• go toe to toe with
• hang in
• insist upon
• investigate
• invite competition
• make a stand
• object to
• question
• stand up to
• throw down the gauntlet

Strongest matches

• scuffle
• tangle
• wrestle

Strong matches

• battle
• box
• brawl
• conflict
• contest
• fight
• grapple
• hassle
• romp
• rough-house
• row
• scrap

Weak matches

• bump heads
• lock horns
• put up a fight