How man of you have ever been in a fight?

[Mr. Lennon]

I'm almost 23 and have never been in a full fledged fight. The only fights that I experienced were back in elementary school...sent a couple kids to the nurses office. I don't really count those though.

Over the years I came to realize that most people that try to initiate a fight will usually back down if you don't puss out. They expect you to cower, but are very surprised when you don't. All of my fights have been won with words. I will defend myself if need be, but that situation has yet to arise, and Ive been to some very bad places.

I know this is a geek board, but I'm sure there's some closet geeks out there like me that have been in some crazy brawls. Let me hear your stories!

 

[jme5343]

Never been in one. Surprising too, as I used to run my mouth more than I should have.

I watch a lot of UFC, though, so I'd be a pretty good fighter.

















I'm kidding, of course.

 

[Q]

My Samus can pwn your Link.

 

[OdiN]

I've never really been in one.

Well once back in like 7th grade there was this kid who the 8th graders convinced to fight me for some reason. He hit me twice in the head, I laughed and asked if that was all he had and walked off. It was pretty funny. Didn't even bruise.

 

[PrinceofWands]

I took a LOT of beatings up until high school, when I finally decided to fight back. First time I really fought, and won, it ended pretty much right there. Only had one more after that until I started working security. Then I was in a LOT of combats...though I don't know if you'd call them fights since it was a part of the job, and was all putting people into restraint, not punching/kicking. Since leaving security I don't think I've been in any real fights, though I've had to put a few people down when they got carried away...just until they chilled. I'm so used to that now I don't know if I'd ever throw a punch again. It's just much more effective to grapple/submit them.

 

[Red Dawn]

I was a pretty good scrapper when I was younger but I never really fucked anybody up but I had a few friends that were fucking dangerous and actually liked fucking people up. One of them would get into a fight at every party or bar we went to and it always ended up with somebody getting carried out on his back. That shit got real old after awhile and I stopped associating with him. He ended up as President of the San Jose Chapter of the HA's and eventually ended up in prison for beating his Brother in Law half to death and again for fucking up some poor guy who had the misfortune of rear ending him in traffic.

 

[DainBramaged]

I have been in a few. Won a few and lost a few. I'm on a winning streak right now.

 

[Squisher]

I've always been a big guy and able to hold my own until I got my ass kicked by a friend (whose brother was a gold glover) who went about a buck fifty. After that I kept my head down and my mouth shut.

 

[dbk]

Do kids still fight these day?

 

[Whisper]

Other than fighting with my brother while growing up, I've never been in one myself. There have been plenty of nights when drunken geniuses have felt the urge to hurl super-creative racial slurs at friends of mine outside bars/clubs, but that's only led to one actual altercation of which I wasn't a part.

 

[George P Burdell]

Punched a guy back in fifth grade. Apart from that, no fights.

 

[yhelothar]

I got my ass whooped a few times in school.
It usually starts as small slugging each other on the shoulder or so from being annoyed at each other, and the other person would just sucker punch me out of nowhere, or I had one guy smack me in the middle of math class right across the face. It was really loud and everyone heard it, but no one did anything. The next day, I guess someone reported it, and we both had lunch detention.
This other time was from this korean guy. I thought he was my friend, but he'd always like to slug me on the arm or leg for fun. Actually just about all the korean friends I've met in high school were like that(3). But one time when I slugged this one korean guy back on the thigh, he just decked me out on the face.
Another time this random guy just came out of nowhere and shoved me in the PE locker room. I kicked in him the shin, and he sucker punched me on the eye.

 

[BoomerD]

When I was younger...MUCH younger, we used to fight out of sheer boredom. (this was in the 60's) We all learned to be pretty good at fistfighting, then when I enlisted in the USMC, I learned the finer points of hand-to-hand combat...
As I got older, the minor aches and pains that were usually the result of simple fisticuffs started hurting more and longer.

Once I got married, I gave up scrapping and fist fighting...and learned about fighting with my wife. I think I prefer getting in a fistfight!

Red, I grew up around 1% bikers. Some of the best people I ever knew...as long as you were on their GOOD sides...

 

[Woosta]

Originally posted by: astroidea
I got my ass whooped a few times in school.
It usually starts as small slugging each other on the shoulder or so from being annoyed at each other, and the other person would just sucker punch me out of nowhere, or I had one guy smack me in the middle of math class right across the face. It was really loud and everyone heard it, but no one did anything. The next day, I guess someone reported it, and we both had lunch detention.
This other time was from this korean guy. I thought he was my friend, but he'd always like to slug me on the arm or leg for fun. Actually just about all the korean friends I've met in high school were like that(3). But one time when I slugged this one korean guy back on the thigh, he just decked me out on the face.
Another time this random guy just came out of nowhere and shoved me in the PE locker room. I kicked in him the shin, and he sucker punched me on the eye.

Damn. Wtf?

 

[Finalnight]

Full fledged fight? Never. Always had to worry about getting expelled or losers ganging up during the fight so I usually avoided it, kids don't fight like they used to. These days, if someone wants to attack me, they are a stranger who is looking to injure/rob/kill me so I would either run them over or shoot them depending on the situation.

Usually when it did get physical when i was a kid, the first time I struck back, my opponent was so shocked they kinda just stopped. Last time I was in a physical altercation was in 9th grade when a dumbass smacked me in the back of the head while I was sitting on the bus as he was walking off. I quickly swung both feet around and kicked him in the stomach/chest into the opposing wall of the bus. We got along great after that.

 

[Cdubneeddeal]

I've only been in a couple fights in my life. I'm very good at avoiding situations like that. However, I studied a lot of Royce Gracies moves so I know I can take anyone out..

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: PrinceofWands
I don't know if I'd ever throw a punch again. It's just much more effective to grapple/submit them.

Yup.

Originally posted by: OdiN
He hit me twice in the head . . .

Explains so much!

Where and when I grew up, kids occassionally fought. No one got hurt really badly, though. But fights were a part of growing up.

There were three hard ass brothers, Mc something. I had gotten in a fight with one of them. Walking home from Catholic grade school, we had to walk through some woods. Somehow someone told my mother that those three were gonna' jump me in those woods one day in retailation for beating up one of them. For whatever reason, I wasn't that worried. I never did find out who told my mom, or how it even got to that "level", though -- some other mother, I guess. Those three were kind of rough.

Anyway, it never happened. Eventually, they moved to another nearby borough. A few years later, they made the papers for beating a kid to death with trash can lids. This was simply not usual for my area at all, and they were tried as adults, iirc.

My first year in public school, I got in three fights the first week. They were pretty tame affairs; the public school kids simply weren't as rough, as a whole, as the Catholic school kids.

It wasn't until years later that I realized this was simply pack behavior, that those fights determined my place in the pack. When I "won" all three, my "place" was assured.

My local Senior/Junior high school was small and wonderful -- 600 students in 7-12 grade. I remember only one formal fight the whole time. I wouldn't let this guy get up in the bleachers or something, and it was on. He got a bloody nose, bled on my shirt, then lent me his sweater to hide it for the post-lunch classes, after which we were best buddies. Fights kind of went like that.

After 10th grade, my school got subsumed by school district re-organization into a larger, 3,300 kids in three grades, POS high school -- bunch of dim, violent guineas who never lost a football game or a wrestling match.

All the bathrooms were permanently locked because the goombahs had destroyed them. There was at least one fight every single fucking day. There, I wised up, quickly made the right 'friends', and therefore never got seriously fucked with. I saw some seriously ugly beatings, though.

The craziest, most vicious ones are often the small, wiry ones, not the big, muscle bound ones.

 

[nick1985]

Only 1 serious fight in my life, and it was pretty 1 sided.


A couple years ago in college I was talking to my girl on the phone standing in the stairwell of my dorm to get reception. One of my roommates and his friend from a different college were walking up the stairs to our room, clearly drunk. My roommates friend started talking some serious shit about my girlfriend, and he didnt even know her...called her a 'effing slut' and a few other things. I told my GF that I had to go and went into my room to confront the asshole. He was laying down in my fouton, I asked him was his problem was and he told me to 'fuck off'.

I then proceeded to tell his stupid ass that if he gets out of the fouton I am going to whip his ass in front of my other roommates. The idiot starts to get up and before he could I put my fist into his fat mouth that got him trouble in the first place. He fell back into the fouton and started bleeding and moaning like crazy, and I just walked away. He bled all over my fouton, but it was worth it.

 

[Renob]

Been in about 100 or so fights say between the age of 15 to 22, seems little drunk guys like to always start ship with the big guy in the room. I have melllowed much have not be in a fight in like the last 15 years.

 

[EightySix Four]

Yep, I got into a pretty good one in highschool.

You know those kids that are hilarious for 5 minutes... then don't know when to stop? Well one of those kids decided to just keep going and going, very frustrating. So I grabbed him, picked him up off the ground and told him to shut the fuck up. The next day he spread some rumors around, telling I called one of the bigger kids (who happened to be his cousin) a pussy and a black kid that I called him a n*gga. After school that day I did my daily workout, and started to change clothes to go home, with my shirt blocking my face I heard someone yell my name, I tore the shirt off and turned just in time to catch a punch to the jaw.

He expected me to go down or something because he turned away from me for a split second. I grabbed him from behind and threw him on the floor, rolled him over and started punching him in the face. He fought his way up, both of us got hit a few times, the works. Eventually I got the upper hand, had him on the ground, my legs pinning down his arms and cracked him in the face one last time. Next thing I hear someone yelling "this will teach you to be a racist." One of the black kids had kneed me in the back of the head.

At this point a friend of mine stepped in and took over the cousin while I chased the black kid to the front of the school, tackled him and started punching him in the face before a parent dragged me away. I ended up with a few goose eggs and a seriously messed up knuckle from a missed punch. The cousin received a concussion from his head bouncing off my fist into the ground and the black kid had a black eye.

Fortunately the whole thing was on camera and I didn't go to juvie or pay anyone's medical bills, although after that fight my school instituted a no tolerance policy no matter who starts it.


My only other fight was at an incubus concert in Dallas. Some punk decided he wanted in front of me and my girlfriend at all costs. Instead of attacking me he swung at her and missed. I jumped on him and started swinging when all his buddies attacked me. I most definitely lost that fight.

 

[potato28]

There aren't any fights around my area, so I'll just say no. I have punched a few people though.

 

[nageov3t]

a couple as a kid... I was the new kid in school after we moved from Oregon to NJ and got picked on a lot in the beginning. won some, lost some, but never anything huge.

 

[potato28]

No fights, just a few punches off here and there. But also I'm not that type of person.... in that sense of the kind of way.

 

[Lurknomore]

Golden rule- never, EVER back down unless you know you're outnumbered or the other is packing.
Of course, make sure the other initiates it and is really being a prick.
Jr. high- guys pushes me in the back as I walk down the hall, says "In America, we walk faster". Pulls the same shit in a cafeteria line, I confront him, push his chest and dare him to do it again. Bitch never does it again.
On the subway- Big black dude out of nowhere pushes me in the chest with a menacing look. I shoot back with a I'll kill you and your family stare, with his back to the platform. He goes "whoa" and puts his hand up in a sorry gesture.
Parking- Big Israeli dude in a call taxi rams into my car. I yell back- he gets out, bumps my chest and says I'll kill you you beloved patriot, I'll rape your mother, yada yada...me, 10 inches shorter gets right to his chest, yeah do it you boy-camel fucker, sandni**er, etc. He gets puffy, gets in his car and drives off.
Never back down.

 

[panipoori]

I got into a fight once...

now im in jail