re: Who has been in a serious fist/street fight

I was hired to clean up a small town bar for a local businessman. The rich guy in the area was constantly sending his hired muscle to trash the place. There was some arson involved and a lot of people injured. Hell, I met my wife after I went to the hospital with a knife wound and she was the Dr. who stitched me up.

I was nice until it was time to be not nice. Won in the end and avoided legal repercussions because the police “didn’t see anything.”

Worst fight I got in. Someone tried to stop me by breaking a bottle over my head. I broke their wrist but I ended up in a hospital because I needed 11 staples from the bottle hit.
Most fights I've ever been in were broken up after a couple of face punches. Give or get a black eye.
I haven't been in a fight in a long long time though. Too afraid of getting shot.
I was never the best puncher but I can grapple so I usually pull people to the ground and try to choke out or maim.
Last fight I was in. In 2009 I still feel bad about. Arguing with a friend who I loaned money to. I had got him a job and he was talking mad shite to me at the job. So I went to his work. Went in back door and confronted him. He pulled a chef knife on me so I threw him to the ground and kicked in his ribs.
Sad thing is we are good friends now. I went to far and used to worry too much about money then. I should have let it slide.

I went to a gang infested public school, so sadly fighting was a common thing growing up .
It's trashy unless it's in a ring. But I wish kids fought over issues rather than use guns.

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I trained this young kid at my gym. He became a very good boxer but money started getting the best of him. Not to mention his agent kept saying he would always be in my shadow. He showed up at a bar and challenged me to a fight outside. I didn’t want to at all but he wouldn’t let it go. So we fought in the street. A huge crowd surrounded us. Even a public bus stopped to let the riders watch. I won in the end but it was tough. I even punched his agent and told him to sue me.

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Sue you for what?

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I trained this young kid at my gym. He became a very good boxer but money started getting the best of him. Not to mention his agent kept saying he would always be in my shadow. He showed up at a bar and challenged me to a fight outside. I didn’t want to at all but he wouldn’t let it go. So we fought in the street. A huge crowd surrounded us. Even a public bus stopped to let the riders watch. I won in the end but it was tough. I even punched his agent and told him to sue me.

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This sounds really familiar.

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Like last call in Tigerland?

I got in a few growing up. Thankfully none since I was about 16-17.

Once you get north of St Louis, fighting is a normal part of culture in small town upper Midwest. There is almost zero chance of weapons and a very little chance of people ganging up.
I have quite a few scars from growing up and I was a straight A student.

Not me because I’m not trashy. Any adult who involves themself in a physical fight is trashy as f***

Had to fight my way from the Bronx to my home on Coney Island at the time in 1979. Was in a gang and we were falsely accused of killing the leader of the most powerful gang at the time.