The decades-long feud between Batman and Bane has always been about the brain, never the brawn, even though popular media would have most audiences believing the opposite. Their relationship is, understandably, defined by Bane breaking the back of the Bat in an unfiltered display of brute force during the Knightfall arc. Such an act of brutality is going to be associated with violence and, thus, the physicality of a fight.
As a result, most spin-off media like The Dark Knight Rises, the Arkham games, and even Joel Schumacher's Batman & Robin showcase Bane outmatching Batman on a physical level. Whenever the sight of Bane breaking Batman's back is replicated, it's typically showcased in a way where Bane outfights Batman in a combat situation and he breaks his back simply because he's stronger than the hero. In the actual comics, though, Bane outmatching Batman has little to do with physical strength.
Heading into Batman #497 by Doug Moench and Jim Aparo, Bane puts Batman through a rigorous gauntlet, knowing that he will be physically and mentally exhausted after. Bane frees countless inmates from Arkham Asylum, forcing Batman to spend all of his energy trying to scoop them back up. By the time Bruce returns to the Bat Cave in the issue itself, a fresh Bane is waiting for him. Batman can hardly put up a fight before Bane lifts him high in the air and bends him over his knee. Bane breaking Batman's back isn't presented as a test of strength as much as it is a tactical achievement.
Bane's great achievement is outsmarting Batman, not outwrestling him in a fistfight. The former Peña Duro inmate uses Batman's sense of duty against him, knowing not only how hard the Dark Knight will work to ensure these criminals are off the street, but how much it's going to wear him out in trying to do so. Bane wants to face Batman at his weakest and that is exactly what he gets, so he promptly takes advantage by destroying his back.
While Bane is certainly an imposing foe and many adaptations have done interesting things in presenting him as a physical threat, it feels like a missed opportunity to know that few adaptations have highlighted the brainpower he's always had. Bane is just as much of a tactical genius as he is a strong juggernaut. In the same sense, Bane's victory over Batman has always been as much more of a mental victory than a physical win.