thenammagazine
Super Freak
I think P2 pred gets unfair criticism just because his opponent was older than Arnie.
P2 Pred took out, in close quarters combat, multiple groups of opponents who were all armed to the teeth. At least 4 times during the film he fights multiple gun wielding folk using more than just his shoulder cannon. He uses a spear and also takes people on hand-to-hand.
P1 predator did nothing more than snipe single targets while cloaked, high up in a tree. And he ran away from Mac twice in the film.
Arnie was the only one against whom the P1 Predator exerted himself at all.
P2 Predator was more badass than P1. He was however guilty of stupidity at the very end in not actually disarming Harrigan of the cutting disc, for some reason assuming that Harrigan had no fight left in him.
All that technology and he still got whopped by a tired old man.

Let's not forget that the first predator took out TWO highly trained Special Forces teams. Harper's team and Dutch's team testosterone. And he lost to the only actor in Hollywood who could make it a believable loss. That's a damn sight more impressive than taking out a buncha gang bangers and drug dealers who shoot sideways and spray and pray on their targets only to get dusted by a geriatric cop who was two seconds away from dropping dead due to a heart attack.