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Have you ever been in a fist fight?

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Only as a part of training with a fellow Soldier and friend. So there was no groin shots, fish hooks, etc. allowed. Still got my rib broke though 😛
 
I started a Royal Rumble in my High school cafeteria. It was near the end of grade 12. I was just minding my business between exams when I was pestered by 3 guys sitting a couple tables away. Keep in mind at this time I was 6' tall and about 225 and benched 250lbs. One of the guys comes over and starting annoying me. I told him to leave me alone or he would get hurt. He didn't and he did. After he got his ass handed to him, his friends came over to help him. The first one I grabbed and hip-tossed him over the table into the laps of my friends. The next one went flying over 2 tables and wasn't getting up too fast. Someone grabbed me from behind and I picked him up by his shirt and threw him about 6 feet. The first guy I stomped got up and I knocked him down again. This fight was broken up when a Teacher grabbed me. He's lucky he moved back or he would have got hurt. I didn't get expelled or anything.

And there was my old thread about a fight in my store last summer.
 
More than I can remember. There was one time on the bus this bigger kid kept picking on me. I was 15/16 years old. I guess I was intimidated by his size so I let it go on for a couple of days. Well one day I said fuck it and when he was picking on me I spit right in his face. He got up out of the bus seat and I jumped up and hit him hard as I could. I didn't feel I got a good clean shot but he dropped right back into his seat. He never bothered getting back out of the seat. Only time I've stopped a fight with one punch. I'm 28 years old right now and I'm much calmer. I'm not looking for a fight and would actually go out of my way to avoid one. If someone puts a hand on me or my family though and it's on.
 
Lots, when I was younger. I don't take shit very well, when someone came looking for trouble, I was always ready to go.
 
I have been in probably 120+ fights, and have won and lost my share. I was utterly obsessed with fighting, boxing, and MA growing up, and spent 20-30 hours a week training, working out, and so on. I kept it in the ring most of the time, but when I was younger I really was a knucklehead more than I'd like to admit. To add to that, I used Anadrol and Testreds and occasionally some other boosters .. it really does affect your personality and judgment. In one particular instance of road rage, I actually went to town on a ricer in a Cavalier (if I'm remembering right on the make/model) and left it in pretty rough shape.

I'm happy to say that I'm not anything like that now, I'm about as mellow as you can possibly get.

Wise person says : you win every single fight that you can avoid.
 
in middle school and high school, i was a fighter and did the whole fight club thing in peoples' basements... that was for fun, and also for practice for whenever i'd just get in fights with people i didn't like.

then, i got a girlfriend and she made me do a 180 and, now, i'm a big pacifist and don't think fighting solves a hell of a lot of anything other than getting your ass in trouble.

i do, however, on occasion, love watching boxing or mma bouts and wish i had someone to fight with.

the last fight i was in was september 13, 2001. two rednecks were being ignorant to me at the shuttle stop on the way to my first class in the morning because of 9/11. i told them to cut it out. they wouldn't stop and just started egging me on by pushing me and trying to get me pissed. i turned and gave my friend my notebook and kicked both their asses. i didn't have a mark on me. i told them they could either stfu and ride the shuttle with me in peace or they could walk their asses up the hill to their classes. they got up and walked away. after that, i was always afraid to be out alone because one of the rednecks had a shotgun in his truck all the time (it was kentucky). i didn't want him to see me walking around while he was driving and get payback.
 
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Not outside of a training/sparring environment. I've always been good at de-escalating situations. Now that I'm 6'6" 240, people don't seem to want to fight me.
 
Yes, the day before Thanksgiving two years ago. All my friends were in one city at the same time (very rarely happens anymore) so we decided to go out. Closing time comes around so we all start heading for the door. Once we get out to the parking lot, some dumb hick decides to punch my friend Terry in the back of the head for some reason. All his friends start punching Terry, so we all step in. It was a brawl in the parking lot for a good 10 minutes until the cops came. We all got off without getting arrested, they either went to jail or the hospital then jail.
 
RedSquirrel said:
I've had a few encouters but managed to talk my way out, never really wanted to fight.

I did punch a few people at various instances though, like this kid that kept hiding my lunch and thought he was so funny.
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Pretty much the same here, but I usually had to punch kids who messed with my cousin, who was pretty small in high school.
 
sourceninja said:
I've been in more silly fights then I care to repeat here. Let's just say I've been knocked on my ass a few times, and I've knocked people on their asses.
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same here. grew up in south phx, mostly running from gangs. a small group of friends and i refused to join so we got messed with. when i got into high school i left most of it behind me, but managed to get into a few scraps here and there. as an adult ive "escorted" people out of establishments working security and whatnot, gotten in some bar fights with idiot drunks and stuff like that. havent been in a good fight in probably a decade now tho. no real urge to do so either.
 
I got punched in the face once in elementary school and the kid hurt his hand on my face.

Does that count?
 
Iron Woode said:
I started a Royal Rumble in my High school cafeteria. It was near the end of grade 12. I was just minding my business between exams when I was pestered by 3 guys sitting a couple tables away. Keep in mind at this time I was 6' tall and about 225 and benched 250lbs. One of the guys comes over and starting annoying me. I told him to leave me alone or he would get hurt. He didn't and he did. After he got his ass handed to him, his friends came over to help him. The first one I grabbed and hip-tossed him over the table into the laps of my friends. The next one went flying over 2 tables and wasn't getting up too fast. Someone grabbed me from behind and I picked him up by his shirt and threw him about 6 feet. The first guy I stomped got up and I knocked him down again. This fight was broken up when a Teacher grabbed me. He's lucky he moved back or he would have got hurt. I didn't get expelled or anything.

And there was my old thread about a fight in my store last summer.
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Shens Canadians dont fight.
 
The last time I was in a real fist fight was in early high school.

My greatest weapon now is my Bar Card. 😉

MotionMan
 
Only a few times but I made sure I got them in a position where I could hurt them without really "hurting" them. They started it, my only goal was to end it and make sure it didn't happen again.
 
Not since 9th grade (about 5 years ago). A fat kid was annoying me by blatantly cheating at cards despite me telling him to stop, so I called him fat. He got pissed off and threw a slushie at me. So I called him fat some more and he tried to hit me with a big textbook. He fell on his face somehow (I think I tripped him or something) and it was over.
 
Just once when I was 9 or 10. These 2 guys that were a Grade or 2 above me and lived down the street in my Trailer Park(uhoh 😀)decided to Bully me. They were mostly pushy and verbal about it, seeming to at least have the honour to not beat up on the little kid. They decided to recruit another kid more my size to beat on me and told me the day before that he was going to beat me up the next day at school. So I arrive at school trying to avoid these kids, then suddenly there I was face to face with the would be assassin pushing me and no way out of the situation. A crowd(quite large, at least 20 kids) began forming around us and everyone knew what was about to go down. I don't remember what was said or how it really started, but I do remember someone in the crowd encouraging me to fight, then I fucking lost it. I started wailing on the kids chest like my life depended on it, the kid tried to fight back, but I was hitting him so rapidly that every time he tried he pulled back from a pain causing blow. Some kids were yelling at me to hit him in the head, but I never did. Eventually the kid started yelping for me to stop, a Teacher stepped in, and a trip to the Office was won!

The Bullying ceased shortly thereafter.
 
When I was 10 or so an older kid on the bus started sitting behind me and kicking the seat back. I asked him to knock it off but he kept up. After a while I saw the bus driver was busy at a stop sign, he kicked the seat and I turned around and hit him in the nose, and turned back around and sat down. I turned my back on him and practically dared him to do something about it. He never bothered me again.
 
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