Analysis
The analysis were for the most part informative. However, it may just be me but Hulk's analysis seemed to have a bit more effort put into it. For example, one of the feats stated is that Hulk could pull two tectonic plates together and for reference Wiz states that the average mass of one tectonic plate is 45 quintillion tons (and that Hulk was able to pull two of them together). On Doomsday's analysis his most impressive feat is tanking an explosion that was the equivalent of 1 million nukes... yet we don't get told how impressive that is exactly. For those of you wondering the world's smallest nuke was Davy Crockett which had a kt TNT equivalent of 0.01 and a terajoule yield of 0.42 meaning Doomsday tanked at minimum 10,000 kilotons of TNT (or 10 million tons of TNT) and a yield of 420,000 terajoules (or 4.2 x 10^17 joules/ 420,000,000,000,000,000 joules of energy).
There wasn't as many jokes as I thought there would be (one being towards Boomstick's father not being there and another as a callback to Yoshi VS Riptor) but I guess when you do a matchup this popular you can't really afford it. It was entertaining nonetheless and I give the analysis a 7/10.
Animation
OK with something this big you have to have big expectations so its not a surprise that SA's 3D animator... not only met them but exceeded them. Seriously you can see how much effort Torrian put into the animation and I'm glad that Screwattack decided to break of pattern of 2D, 3D, 2D, 3D etc. so that Torrian would have more time to work on the fight. The Metal Gear Rising music didn't hurt either and though the voice acting was a bit lacking, the two combatants don't really talk all that much anyways.
Honestly this is perhaps the most gruesome episode we've seen so far. Sure while Bayoneta got impaled several times and Sweet Tooth's death was most certainly gruesome (even if we couldn't see it) this one takes the cake with one of the combatants actively murdering innocent civilians. Sure episodes in the past have had civilians caught up in the fight but their fates are usually either ambiguous or if we do see them killed on screen its usually painless and bloodless (you will forever be missed seagull who appeared in Ratchet & Clank VS Jak & Daxter). Here Doomsday impales and decapitates several civilians and that's before the fight begins.
While I usually penalize episodes for not giving much of a reason for combatants to fight, I'm willing to let it slide because... well they don't really need a reason to fight. Seriously they live for causing destruction so they don't really need a reason to fight. Hulk's death was also glorious. Take the impalement from Dante VS Bayonetta and then add it to the decapitation of Deathstroke. That is Hulk's death in a nutshell complete with Doomsday using it as a trophy. With all this I have to give the animation a 9.5/10.
Conclusion
And now for the section that matters the most, the reasoning behind the ultimate verdict. While there are some episodes where you could see why they won but the conclusion was worded in a way that didn't really sell it (cough Meta VS Carolina cough) and others are just straight up half-arsed to the point where you could rip the conclusion apart using their own information (cough Shadow VS Mewtwo cough), that's not the case here. You can actually see how much effort was put into determining the verdict.
They literally break the conclusion down into separate segments because they want to show their working rather then simply wanting you to take everything they say as gospel. They had a legitimate point about Hulk having more raw power and Doomsday having more speed. This is one of the few examples in the show where it came down to durability and Doomsday had it due to his duels with Superman, Kryptonians and the Justice League. While some can say that the retcons count, they kind of don't as Doomsday was only killed in the retcons because he had not adapted to that level of strength yet unlike the original version. Doomsday's peak was so powerful that the only way to kill him was to send him to the end of time and because Hulk doesn't have that capability Doomsday won the fight.
Furthermore Doomsday doesn't have a time limit whereas Hulk does. Doomsday has always been the destructive monster who at base could 'kill' Superman but Hulk can't be angry forever and so he will eventually reach a point where he reverts back to Bruce Banner (like he does in most fights) and on top of that while his strength is potentially unlimited it really isn't due to this weakness. The Hulk has actually been defeated by multiple characters in the Marvel universe while Doomsday in his first appearance completely destroyed the Justice League and only lost the fight because Superman in complete desperation found and exploited Doomsday's weakness (which has since then been covered for).
To finish this post off, there is one more detail that Wiz and Boomstick didn't mention. That being that even if Hulk managed to kill Doomsday, he would just resurrect himself months later completely immune to Hulk's powers. This is perhaps the only episode where the 'can't be killed' NLF is actually done right. Sure Bowser couldn't 'kill' Ganon but he could rip him to shreds and mutilate him enough that it would end the fight and Ganon's soul would have to wait until the next generation to be resurrected (at which point he likely would've forgotten all about Bowser). Here even if Doomsday was killed, he would still be able to resurrect himself within the year and Hulk would be unable to stop him. As such their verdict and reasoning for said verdict is perfectly sound and I give it a 9/10.
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