Yea, I'm cheating, but older-Kirk's best fight was with Kruge in ST3-TSFS.
How can you not like a fight to the death with a Klingon? Kirk booting Kruge off into the lava- priceless!
"I...have had ENOUGH...of YOUUUUU"
Awesome. Classy, believable middle-aged Kirk fight. And you even get authentic Shatner-esque dialog while literally giving a Klingon the boot, all in my favorite TOS movie. Quite a package.
Even beats Star Wars Episode 3's lava-fight scene by 20 years
You have to hand it to Shatner, so willing to do all the physical stuff he did (bad double cases notwithstanding).
How can you not like a fight to the death with a Klingon? Kirk booting Kruge off into the lava- priceless!
"I...have had ENOUGH...of YOUUUUU"
Awesome. Classy, believable middle-aged Kirk fight. And you even get authentic Shatner-esque dialog while literally giving a Klingon the boot, all in my favorite TOS movie. Quite a package.
Even beats Star Wars Episode 3's lava-fight scene by 20 years

You have to hand it to Shatner, so willing to do all the physical stuff he did (bad double cases notwithstanding).