"unequal fight" is a correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It is used to describe a situation where two opponents are not evenly matched in terms of strength, resources, or power, making the outcome of the fight uneven or unfair. Example: The small rebel group put up an unequal fight against the well-equipped army, but their determination and guerilla tactics allowed them to hold out for months.
Although both fighters weighed 150lbs the battle of the giants proved to be an unequal fight between a fully grown middleweight and a super welterweight.
The hurdler Sergey Shubenkov told the state television channel Rossiya 24: "If you meet unfair competition, you should do everything so that this unequal fight will go in your favour … you should be so strong that no one can catch you".
Greatly outnumbered and losing an unequal fight, Belgrano refused to surrender.
At the inquest yesterday, the damaging fact was ascertained that only two of the cowboys were armed, it thus being a most unequal fight".
Unlike their children, they are unwilling to accept that Russia first conquered and then occupied Eastern Europe.Colonial lootSome of the stuff that comes under the colonial heading was also pillaged in war, but longer ago and in grossly unequal fights between invaders bearing modern weapons and poorly equipped natives.
Good and evil fight an unequal battle in which the former is assured of triumph.
Even the women teachers fought an unequal battle, for all the school heads and a large part of the staff were men, usually academically trained.
The fight over Doniger's book, from the start, was an unequal battle.
Facilitated naturalisation ensures that citizenship is no longer seen in nationalistic terms as cultural assimilation, while strong anti-discrimination laws help individuals fight unequal treatment based on ethno-nationalistic concepts of race and ethnicity.
Part of it is that someone is making a profit from paying women less -- it's one of the reasons we need to fight against unequal pay.
As the Japanese on Los Negros ran out of food and ammunition, the fight became increasingly unequal.
