Board Thread:The Flash discussions/@comment-13895380-20160824190348/@comment-3423279-20160825001150

Not really, what many seem to forget is that Eobard during the murder of Nora was distracted with that and Present Barry caught him off guard before going to town, the scene where Barry made his taunts to Eobard probably took under a second.

The fight against Eobard during his "origin story" was also unbalanced by experience if not speed, Barry was simply better tactically than the young Eobard.

I'd say the only reason Barry "kicked Eobard Thawne's teeth in" was because he was surprised and couldn't recover from being punched in the face repeatedly in time.