WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Episode 131 of Dragon Ball Super , "A Miraculous Decision! Farewell, Goku! Until We Encounter Again!" which debuted Saturday on Adult Swim.

Much of Dragon Brawl Super, the latest chapter in Akira Toriyama'due south indelible Dragon Brawl anime franchise, pit the iconic characters in a series of martial-arts contests, culminating in the Tournament of Power, involving teams assembled from across the Dragon Brawl Multiverse. A champion was crowned in the end, but information technology wasn't longtime protagonist Goku, standing his surprisingly poor win-loss ratio.

Beyond four Dragon Brawl anime series, Goku has only won a single martial-arts tournament: the climactic one in the original Dragon Brawl against Piccolo -- and, fifty-fifty and so, only barely. Hither's a complete history of Goku'south tournament losses, disqualifications and concessions across the four series, from Dragon Brawl to Dragon Ball Super.

The 21st Tenkaichi Budokai

The very first tournament in the series was the 21st Tenkaichi Budokai, or, World Martial Arts Tournament. While only 12 years old, Goku and Krillin entered as the youngest participants after completing a year of grooming under Master Roshi. Little did either know, Roshi himself had also entered the tournament nether the guise of a mysterious martial artist named Jackie Chun, to teach his star pupils the value of humility.

Roshi faced off against Goku in the final round, nearly incapacitating the boy with an electric attack before Goku transformed into a Great Ape, thank you to his Saiyan tail and the full moon in a higher place him. In response, Roshi destroyed the moon with a powerful Kamehameha Wave. The two resumed fighting, but fell simultaneously before Roshi arose and declared himself the winner. Goku got the last laugh, however, using the majority of Roshi's prize money to treat himself to an epic dinner.

The 22nd Tenkaichi Budokai

3 years later, the fifteen-year-one-time Goku entered the 22nd Tenkaichi Budokai along with Roshi, Krillin, Yamcha and two new rivals from the Crane School, Tien Shinhan and Chiaotzu. By the end of the tournament, only Goku and Tien remained, with Roshi deciding that Tien would be a better opponent for Goku this time effectually.

The grueling boxing between the 2 fighters took to the skies, where Tien revealed an reward, as he could fly. Ultimately, the warriors simultaneously knocked each other out of the ring. Nevertheless, upon their return to Earth, Goku collided with a truck, eliminating him from the tournament only seconds before Tien similarly made bear on.

Jail cell Games

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After Piccolo near used the 23rd Tenkaichi Budokai as an opportunity to continue his father's conquest of the Earth, the tournament was canceled for near a full decade, well into Dragon Ball Z. Upon the villainous Cell attaining his perfect course, he appear the reinstatement of the tradition as the Cell Games, and invited Earth'south greatest fighters to confront him in the ring to make up one's mind the fate of the planet. His first opponent was Goku.

Goku nearly defeated Prison cell with a point-blank Kamehameha, just for Cell to completely regenerate, every bit his core remained intact. Exhausted, Goku conceded, leaving his son Gohan to end the fight later the boy transformed into a Super Saiyan 2. However, as Gohan had lost control and allow the fight play out too long, Goku was forced to sacrifice himself by teleporting Cell and himself to some other earth when the villain self-destructed in a drastic try to destroy Earth.

Other World Tournament

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Shortly later Goku'south death, he convinces the Grand Kai in the afterlife to throw a martial-arts tournament, with the souls of the greatest heroic warriors participating. As the strongest fighter from the northern quadrant of the universe, overseen by Rex Kai, Goku fabricated his fashion to the final circular, where he faced Pikkon, the champion from the western quadrant.

Afterward their initial bout, Goku and Pikkon revealed they had been holding dorsum; Goku then transformed into a Super Saiyan, while Pikkon removed his weighted clothing. Equally the boxing escalated, Goku and Pikkon inadvertently disqualified themselves simultaneously when they both used moons hovering over the arena for leverage, which counted as a ring out.

The 25th Tenkaichi Budokai

When Goku learned Gohan and Vegeta would sign up for the 25th Budokai Tenkaichi seven years afterwards his expiry, during the Jail cell Games, he was permitted to visit Earth for i day -- due to his heroic deeds in life and his proficient behavior in the afterlife. In a random drawing before the tournament, Goku was slated to fight against Vegeta in the start round, their great rematch seemingly becoming destiny.

Ultimately, Goku never fought in the tournament, and instead left early on, along with most of the Z Fighters, when recruited by the Supreme Kai to stop the revival of the monstrous Majin Buu. The reigning world champion retained his title afterward Android eighteen threw a fight against him in exchange for a secret payout.

The 28th Tenkaichi Budokai

The concluding set of Dragon Ball Z episodes experienced a time spring, to 10 years later on the terminal defeat of Majin Buu by Goku. Goku hoped the evil Buu would exist reborn with all his strength, only every bit a good soul rather than a malevolent one, a wish overheard by afterlife overseer Rex Yemma. Resurrected in a human being body on Earth equally Uub, the boy entered the tournament as a 10-yr-old participant.

Goku secretly fixed the cartoon of fighters and so he could confront Uub in the first round. There, he goaded Uub into revealing his true ability, which enabled him to get toe-to-toe against Goku, while the Saiyan retained his normal form. Impressed, Goku offered to become Uub'southward teacher to improve strop his incredible abilities, in exchange for an epic rematch. After Uub agreed, the two fighters left the tournament early, with Goku's granddaughter Pan going on to win every bit the youngest champion in the competition's history.

The Junior Division

While rendered non-catechism after the release of Dragon Brawl Super, Dragon Ball GT followed Z equally a direct sequel,. In it, Goku was accidentally transformed into a kid by a errant wish from the Blackness Star Dragon Assurance. After humanity was saved from the evil Tuffle Babe, a new tournament was held to commemorate the one-yr ceremony of the restored peace.

Given his restored youth, Goku was forced to enter the Junior Segmentation, while his family and friends competed equally adults. Retaining much of his strength even in his pint-sized country, Goku hands progressed to the terminal round, but was knocked out of the band by a academic opponent after existence distracted by Vegeta on the sidelines.

Tournament of Destroyers

Later defeating a resurrected Frieza in Dragon Ball Super, Goku and the Z Fighters learn of the existence of a multiverse from God of Destruction, Beerus, and his brother from Universe 6, Champa. The 2 estranged siblings decide to hold a tournament betwixt their two universes, dubbed the Tournament of Destroyers, with Goku serving as part of Universe 7's team, while the assassin Hit was Universe half-dozen's champion.

Fighting against each other in the penultimate match, Goku and Hit are pushed to new levels of power, with Goku combining the Kaio Ken technique with his Super Saiyan Blue transformation to overcome Hit'southward abilities to dispense space and time. After realizing the only way he could defeat Hit would kill him, Goku concedes the fight. In return, Striking concedes in the final circular to Monaka, resulting in Universe seven'southward victory.

Tournament of Power

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The final storyline of Dragon Ball Super upped the ante by having all 15 universes in the Dragon Brawl Multiverse fight in the Tournament of Ability, overseen by Grand Zeno and his alternate-future counterpart. The winning universe would get to brand a wish on the omnipotent Super Dragon Balls, while losing universes were erased from being. As the competition began, it quickly became clear that Universe 11's Jiren was the strongest fighter.

Past the end of the tournament, Goku had unlocked a new transformation in Autonomous Ultra Instinct, assuasive him to push beyond his concrete limitations to harness the power of the gods. With this transformation, Goku began to overpower Jiren in the concluding moments of the tournament, only to collapse from sheer exhaustion. Eventually, Goku and Frieza teamed up to drag Jiren with them out of the arena, resulting in the elimination of all three fighters, leaving Android 17 as the last fighter standing.

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