re: After watching numerous fight videos lately, I’m convinced that 99% of men can’t fight.

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Unfortunately, I've been in a number of them when I was younger. Not in 20+ years at this point though.



I’m at about 20 years also.

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Same. I boxed and wrestled for over a decade, and easily over a hundred street fights by the time I left high school, maybe 200.

Throughout middle and high school, I was one of like 5 white students, so early on the black and Hispanic kids thought they could frick with me. That lasted for a couple months until I earned their respect. I consider those early months the only necessary fist fights I ever had. After that, I got in fights simply because I enjoyed the notoriety and the adrenaline rush was addictive.

Whenever a new kid would come to our school, the other kids would always pressure him to "try that white boy", knowing I wouldn't back down and this dude was about to get chin checked.

I was 19 when I had my last actual fight. I was underage drinking at a local hotspot near UT campus when a big wrestler from Carson Newman knocked my grossly undersized roommate to the ground and started kicking him. I went after him like a rabid pit bull, landing several head shots before grabbing him by his hoodie and throwing him through a window onto the street.

I go out to finish him off, and I see him on the ground, covered in blood, unconscious. I honestly thought I killed him, scariest moment of my life. Haven't raised my fists since.