Toph would win. When Aang asked Bumi who he should look for as an earthbending teacher, Bumi replied that he should find an earthbender that has mastered neutral jin (out of the 85 jins). Neutral Jin represents waiting until the perfect moment to strike, and according to Bumi, this Jin is the key to earthbending. Toph, being the self-proclaimed greatest earthbender in the world, and blind, has most likely mastered this Jin. Bumi would be hardpressed to defeat an earthbender who has actually mastered this Jin, assuming this is the key to earthbending. (not to mention she can see every single shot he would throw, and he hasn't even mastered that ability)

Both are equally powerful. but toph might be better because her style is so unigue but BUMI (thats how you spell it) is more experienced but he is old. I'd go with toph.

Toph would knock the hell out of Bumi no question about it.

Well this is an interesting discussion.?? On the one hand Bumi has a great understanding of the various Jins where Toph does not.?? Bumi is perfectly capable of fighting Toph and possibly beating her.?? However in light of the recent metal bending that Toph has done I think she has a leg up on him.?? The reason why she is able to do the metal bending is because she senses where the rock lies within the metal.?? I doubt Bumi would be able to find since he is encased in the metal box.?? Maybe after the firelord is defeated we will get to see a match up between them.

Bumi gets my vote, he has raw power, intellegence, patience, and experience on his side. Toph is??very good and is probably better than Bumi was at her age but as things stand now Bumi would beat her into the ground. We have to remember Toph can only 'see' if she's on solid earth and we know that Bumi can make sand with a single foot so all he'd have to do is make the area around Toph sandy and then the game's over.

I think I will go with Bumi for one simple reason. He has never shown all his cards. Each time we see him he is doing something new and different. I don't think this is because he just learned it. It's because he already knew how to do it and was just hiding the fact while waiting for the right time. He went from very nice bending in King of Omashu to not having to have his hands free to bend when the gang returned to Omashu. Who knows how many other things he can do that we don't about. I will give Toph credit as she has shown us some things too but that's not to say Bumi can't do the same. (Would be a great scene even it is two of the good guys).

I know there's only like.. 3 people that agree, but I think especially with her new metalbending powers, she could beat Bumi. But it would totally be a razor-thin close fight

I actually registered an account specifically to chime in on this. First, to dispel a few falsehoods:

"An opponent with no training/experience is a difficult opponent": False. - An opponent with no training (& by "training" I mean any kind of repeated experience that leads to the honing of combat skills) is a joke. Their actions may be wild, but they are incredibly predictable. The only thing easier is an opponent with just a little bit of experience, because then they usually THINK they know what they're doing, & they fall into easily predictable patterns.

"Originality can compensate for lack of experience against a more experienced opponent": False. - In martial arts, raw talent is something, but the absolute, number-one, greatest factor that leads to excellence is experience (experience in this case = time + brains + hard work). That's why martial arts is one of those unique areas where the oldest are usually the best, whereas in the rest of life we look to the young & "healthy" as the most promising. In true Kung Fu, he who has had the most time to train, will almost always be the better fighter.

Anyway, as to the rest, it's all subjective & part of the show. However, Toph has definately not "mastered" metal-bending, any more than she has "mastered" earth bending. Aang made a joke out of her in their first encounter. And Bumi is not only more skilled, he's a lot smarter in fighting. Remember, every time we see Bumi we learn that he knows more than he tells. Between that & his ability to "think outside the box," he may know more about the limits of earth/metal bending than anyone. He's certainly more than smart enough to figure out Toph's weaknesses, & he's definately the more skilled Bender.

Now, if we put Bumi in suspended animation until Toph is a century or so old, THAT would be a great match.

Bumi vs. toph would be about 65/35 for me. Bumi has experince advantage has fought numerous opponets who have differnet styles. There have to be more than two types of earth bending just like there are more than two types of waterbending. Bumi would figure out her??style eventually and her style is basically wait untill the attack is near and dodge or block while attacking at the same time. Bumi uses projectiles, moves ground by the opponets and dispells any projectile that comes near.??Let us also remember that bumi fought aang knowing what aang was capable of, since they were friends, and didn't have to show off his best moves to aang. I really think he could have killed aang very easily when they fought (Unless aang went into the avatar state). Regardless of tophs style bumi is not so predictable either and could uses some moves toph has never seen. Also tophs metal bending is not an advantage yet since so far we have only seen her crumble and throw it. Which although he would be momemtarily shocked that can eaisly be blocked with rock. Now in a year (providing bumi is still alive) we'll talk about that advantage.????