Although the lion would definitely be more formidable in a fight, if you were to tear off three of its eight legs and blind two of its four pairs of eyes, it wouldn't be able to withstand the continuous onslaught of poison, unable to escape, it just lay sprawled on the ground, blood oozing from its mouth and nose turning black, leaving it at the mercy of the spider's pair of pincer-like chelicerae that occasionally clamped onto its thigh flesh, injecting poison into the muscle bit by bit.