In Scandinavian mythology there's only one person who can beat the god Thor in a wrestling match: the elderly woman Elle.
When Thor was asked to wrestle her he laughed, thinking it would be the easiest win of his life, but he had to admit defeat within minutes because Elle is no ordinary old lady. She is the personification of aging itself, and nothing can beat age.
I love the story of Thor, Thjalfi and Loki visiting the Giants - the gods spending the night in a shelter that turns out to be a stray glove, the rigged contests, &c. No surprise, then, that it's been adapted so many times (as a Harold Shea story in "Unknown Worlds", as a chapter in one of the D'Aulaire books, &c.
I hear they are making a movie with a female Thor. Elle is a perfectly good female character fully developed in the pantheon of Nordic Gods. I would pay to see an intelligent woman (ala Agatha Christie's Miss Marple) who could kick ass only when the occasion arises. Movie producers are lazy.
Elle only wrestles and defeats a young Thor. A middle aged Thor has come to terms with his aging and f course dances with her as he is participating in time. But it only lasts a time, because and old Thor would be close to his own end. I don't know what they'd be doing together, but it's something.
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I would pay to see this in the MCU, just as an end credits scene. Imagine Chris Hemsworth being turned into a pretzel by Maggie Smith.