Fist fights...

[DitchPanda]

So this topic got brought up at work recently for some reason. Like many of you  I had some scraps back in my younger years...but I'm closing in on 40 and when asked the other day couldn't even remember the last time I cracked somebody. I'm in no way condoning violence, but the reality is it happens. When was the last time you were in an actual fight? 

[LrgmouthShad]

Never. Had combatives class and practicing some since then, and boxing class.

 

I don’t know how I’ve never been in an actual fight and not sure that it’s a good thing but never have been.

[flyfisher]

I moved to richmond in 2004 so i think it was 2006 and it wasn't as much a fight as it was a gut feeling while i was walking my bulldog and a dude swung i was ready and dodged and hit him as hard as i could and he dropped and i left.

[Woody B]

I used to box, then kick boxed after that.   The only not organized fight I've been in since Jr High was ~30 years ago when my Sisters (recently separated) Ex husband took a swing at me.   My Sister was upset about her separation.  I had went to see her, and took her to a restaurant.   He was at the same restaurant making a fool out of himself.  He followed me into the bathroom and took a big haymaker swing.  I ducked, side stepped then dotted his eyes.  He never hit me, but my hands were bruised.  No one ever "wins" a fight.   

[AlabamaSpothunter]

6th grade bathroom......just me and the kid asked to go to the bathroom, looking back at that now, that's pretty classy for two boys to go handle it with fists privately ?

 

I wrestled throughout middle and high school, and instead of punching a guy when I was in my 20s, I hit him with standing hip toss, that was the end of that.    Those are the only two physical fights I've had in my life.    

[Will Ketchum]

It was around high school age or maybe a little later. Myself and a buddy got in a fight over I can't remember what. I remember getting it in the face and I got him, and then we went our separate ways mouthing off at each other. It didn't take long to get over it and still remained friends.

[gim]

I was assaulted in college.  2 guys wrapped a cord around my neck and tried to choke me. I had a knife on me and stuck one of them pretty bad. I was suspended from the dorm for a week for having that knife.

 

The two individuals who tried to choke me were both kicked out of school and charged with a misdemeanor.

 

Not really a “fist fight” per say I guess.

[DitchPanda]

4 minutes ago, gimruis said:

I was assaulted in college.  2 guys wrapped a cord around my neck and tried to choke me. I had a knife on me and stuck one of them pretty bad. I was suspended from the dorm for a week for having that knife.

 

The two individuals who tried to choke me were both kicked out of school and charged with a misdemeanor.

 

Not really a “fist fight” per say I guess.

Whoa

[padlin]

A few as a kid, nothing since, at least none I can remember.

[Catt]

5 or 6 yrs ago, some dummy with his pants down around his knees thought an old man was an easy target.

 

Seen him a couple of times since, he turns & walks away rather quickly. 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

19 minutes ago, Catt said:

5 or 6 yrs ago, some dummy with his pants down around his knees thought an old man was an easy target.

 

Seen him a couple of times since, he turns & walks away rather quickly. 

Old man strength combined with young drunk aggression doesn't end well usually for the young drunk aggressor.

 

My dad and mom were at a UGA game watching my sister cheerlead, some drunk student in the stands went hands on with my dad, and my dad punched the dude with a clean shot, dude sulked away while being heckled by others in the stands.

 

My dad's claim to fame since ?

[Kirtley Howe]

In my twenties and thirties, I often had a second (or third) job as a bouncer. I always felt that if it got to being a fight, I did not do my job well...but if I had to resort to violence, then all rules were off. I seldom lost, as drunk idiots, even if bigger and stronger than me, had the disadvantage. 

When I was a kid, my mother told me that if possible, walk away from a fight....but if not possible, carry a roll of quarters in your hand, and don't be afraid to use it. She also said that if any family member was in a fight, and it was a more or less fair fight, then I should stay out of it, but be there to take them home if he/she lost. And if it was NOT a fair fight, then I d**n well better not come home unmarked. She was a wise lady.

[N Florida Mike]

It’s now been over 40 years since I’ve been in one. Not drinking for 40 years might have something to do with that !!  

Had my share before that though. I don’t know how it was elsewhere, but back then we would fight and nobody ever called the police because no one ever pulled a gun or knife even though most everybody carried both…

 

[Jar11591]

Been almost 20 years. I was a stupid kid. The only thing that could get me to ever consider being in another physical altercation would be a direct threat to my family. 

[slonezp]

When it came to fists? 1984ish

When it came close to fists 1994ish

 

Fists don't matter in todays world. Who's got the best lawyers and guns is all that matters nowadays. 

[Hammer 4]

Fought almost everyday in Jr. high school, due to getting jumped by our enemies. Since then I fought competitively for 2 years in Martial Arts.

Like Kirt, I tried my best to walk away from fights, and was pretty successful in doing so for the remainder of my life.  

[12poundbass]

2 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

6th grade bathroom......just me and the kid asked to go to the bathroom, looking back at that now, that's pretty classy for two boys to go handle it with fists privately ?

 

I wrestled throughout middle and high school, and instead of punching a guy when I was in my 20s, I hit him with standing hip toss, that was the end of that.    Those are the only two physical fights I've had in my life.    

A couple of Oklahoma Sooner football players learned a couple years ago you don’t mess with kids with cauliflower ears. Those boys were way smaller than those football players too! Made for a good video. ?

[slonezp]

19 minutes ago, 12poundbass said:

A couple of Oklahoma Sooner football players learned a couple years ago you don’t mess with kids with cauliflower ears. Those boys were way smaller than those football players too! Made for a good video. ?

I have a customer with 2 cauliflower ears. I don't ask him anything. 

[TnRiver46]

4 hours ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Never. Had combatives class and practicing some since then, and boxing class.

 

I don’t know how I’ve never been in an actual fight and not sure that it’s a good thing but never have been.

Definitely a good thing!

 

I won some and lost some, never anything serious. 
 

my brothers in law got after it their whole lives haha

[Columbia Craw]

You know you’ve been in a fight when you have to subdue someone 25 years younger than you who’s tweeked on Meth and they’re hell bent on taking your side arm and killing you with it.  Being I can relate that, you can deduce I won. Ended up with knee surgery and he ended up with 17 years in state custody.  I was 61 at the time.  The others are public record. We could always do like the guys in the movie Jaws and compare scars.

[TnRiver46]

1 minute ago, Columbia Craw said:

You know you’ve been in a fight when you have to subdue someone 25 years younger than you who’s tweeked on Meth and they’re hell bent on taking your side arm and killing you with it.  Being I can relate that, you can deduce I won. Ended up with knee surgery and he ended up with 17 years in state custody.  I was 61 at the time.  The others are public record. We could always do like the guys in the movie Jaws and compare scars.

My cousin that worked at brushy mtn always chuckled when people talked about their stressful jobs

 

thanks for working that job!!!

[Catt]

2 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Old man strength combined with young drunk aggression

 

Old age & treachery will always beat youth & exuberance!

 

He wasn't drunk, he just let his alligator mouth overload his tadpole azz!

 

[Mobasser]

I was a skinny kid. I had many friends, but got picked on a little also, mostly by the same two kids at school. I never fought a lot. At age fourteen, I started working out at a boxing gym, and boxed three years in the Golden Gloves in Kansas City MO.                                                       I ended up winning my second year in the novice class. I weighed 114 lbs. It's a natural thing for boys growing up to challenge each other. Someone always wants to be the tough guy.               I haven't been in a fight in over fifty years. I try my best to get along with people.

[Woody B]

Not a fight, but a guy with a steak knife tried to rob me once.  I had been to a race a few hours from home.  I was on my way back home, and I was sleepy.   No one was talking on the CB so I had my radio cranked up singing along with it to stay awake.  My radio quit.  I pulled into a rest area (dually, and 32 foot enclosed trailer).  I usually look around, and am aware of my surroundings but I was really sleepy.  As soon as I was stopped I had my door open.  I was laying in the floor messing with the wires on the back of my radio.  A short, skinny guy came up to my feet and said "give me all your money".  He had a small steak knife that was no bigger than a butter knife held out in front of him, sticking straight up in the air.   I thought as first some of my friends were there and were pranking me.  I kinda laughed.   Again, he said "give me all your money".   The way he was standing I could have easily kicked him in the groin.......but my nickel plated .44 magnum was laying under my seat.  I got it, pointed it at him and said "give me all YOUR money".   He took off running across the Interstate.   

 

A few years later I was going to another race.  It was 11pm or so.   I stopped at a (closed pay at the pump) store to top off the tank in my motorhome.  (for the generator)   I was in a motorhome, and the same 32 foot trailer.  While I was filling the tank there were a couple kids making circles around my rig on skate boards.   When I put the nozzle up they came up to me.  One of them said "you must me rich to have this rig".   I laughed and said "maybe I was before I got it".   The other said "what would you do if we would rob you?"    I pulled my my jacket so they could see the same nickel plated .44 in a shoulder holster.  I said "I wouldn't try to rob me if I were you."    They rode off on their skateboards.  They weren't going to rob me, they were too young, but they were thinking about it.  I hope their interaction with me changed their minds about ever robbing anyone.   

[12poundbass]

I’ve been in a couple bar scuffles but none resulted in a fight, which is probably a good thing. I have Steve Buscemi eyes, so a couple shots to the face and it would probably be lights out for me and I’d be left joining the ranks of Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles on the piano. ?