The Balrog would win. Gandalf dies fighting one, and he is a Maia with a ring. How well would a human with a ring do? No contest on this. Also Galadriel says that there is no greater foe (than a balrog) save the dark lord himself.
Also, I read somewhere (I think that it was in the history of dwarf kings) that the balrog had awoken due to the revival (or re arising... I don't know what to call it) of Sauron. Anyway, the passage certainly implied that the Balrog was beneth him, and would have served him.
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