Both are very strong. A king and a owner did a fight between a Barbary lion called atlas from the atlas mountains and a man eating Bengal tiger from Indian Round One Edit The tiger crawled forward, crouched flat and calculated the distance for a spring at Atlas. Head to Head Fight: In history both animals have been involved in fight many times and each time tiger has the dominance over lion. At the end of the 19th century, the Gaekwad of Baroda arranged a fight between a lion and tiger before an audience of thousands. Tigers and Lions are very good at wrestling. Mythology states that in India, towards the end of the 19th century, the Gaekwad of Baroda, that is Sayajirao III, arranged a fight between a Barbary lion called "Atlas," from the Atlas Mountains between Algeria and Morocco, and a man-eating Bengal tiger from the Indian region of Shimla, before an audience of thousands, according to the Gettysburg Compiler and The Baltimore Sun. The Gaekwad favored the lion, and as a result had to pay 37,000 rupees as the lion was mauled by the tiger. Now back on topic, Asiatic lion vs Bengal tiger is like Indochinese Tiger vs a subspecies of African lion. 8 out of 10 times, A male Bengal Tiger will beat a male African Lion. Bear's strength versus tiger's swiftness. Comparative size. The bigger contender has quite a decent size advantage other smaller advantages. This has happened in the British India period when the britishers pit Male Bengal Tigers with Male African Lions and usually Tigers came out as winners.