Have you ever been in a fight?

No, but I realised something interesting. I did 2 years of MMA and 2 of BJJ. In the time where I didn't do a martial art if I ever got into an argument I would have been more ready (or willing) to fight then when I was doing martial arts. I'm not sure why but I still feel the same know that I know some BJJ.

Nope. I would probably get my ass whipped. And I like my face too.

I’ve been in a couple fights. In one I was sticking up for my little brother, as someone my age (a couple years older) was messing with him.

The other fight was more of a jumping. My friend and I stopped by a party where we were invited by a couple of friends. We didn’t know anyone other than the guys who invited us but stayed for a while anyway. As we were leaving the party, a drunk girl didn’t want my friend to leave. She got in his way and eventually fell down as he was trying to get out of the door. She started wailing and saying that my friend hit her. As we were about 100 yards down the street my friend gets knocked onto the pavement from behind. I got the guy off of him but then I am quickly assaulted by 15-20 “tough guys” who didn’t see the girl fall, only heard her crying coming out to protect her. My friend got up and ran away while I took the beating trying to defend him.

Even as a larger, in shape guy I realized that I’m certainly not invincible. Luckily I made it out with only a concussion. My face was so swollen after the incident that I had to have an X-Ray taken to make sure that my facial bones weren’t shattered. I would have liked help from my friend but in the end there was nothing he could do after he got knocked down. The party cleared out to come after us and stepping in rather than running would have just resulted in two badly beaten kids rather than one.

I've been in a couple fights because I fought in MMA / Boxing to pay my way through university haha. Have I been in a street fight? Not since I eliminated bullying from my high school. It's not as easy as it looks on TV to put a man to sleep. The human body is very resilient and can absorb a lot of damage.

Once in high school and I put the kid to bed and then once in college and got my ass properly handed to me by a large South African rower, my face was a fucking sight.

Edit: If anonymity wasn't a thing I'd post the pic I just found that my buddy took of me after it happened and it is even worse than I remembered lol

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I drunkenly cleaved a guy with one of those Swiffer electric vacuums because he wanted to fight once.

Got in one fight in highschool and plenty of drunk fights in my fraternity days. Kind of embarrassing looking back at it, but I've never been clocked in the face. That's a small victory.

Fighting in general is pretty dumb.

Not really a fight but more like a scuffle on more than one occasion. Have multiple arrests for dumb ass scuffles because minorities are treated with a double standard by law enforcement. Had I been white, it more than likely would have been laughed off and forgiven.

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I broke some kid’s nose in middle school after his prolonged mental bullying of me graduated one day to him pushing me to the ground. I probably endured more bullying than the average person in middle school, but luckily I had a shitload of friends who constantly stuck up for me and put kids in their place when I wasn’t in a position to do so. Fighting is retarded, but sometimes it’s necessary when you’re dealing with someone who insists on being aggressive.

Only other times I’ve been involved in physical altercations are: Once when a drunk retard randomly picked up a pool ball from the table I was playing on at a bar and tossed it at my face (thankfully missed); cracked the pool cue over his back and left. Second time was when I got jumped by a few bouncers about 25 feet from the entrance of some shitty bar. They threw my friend down a flight of stairs for no defensible reason, and he got scraped up pretty badly. Long story short, ended up getting sucker-punched by two of the power-tripping worthless scumbags on a public sidewalk; ended up walking away after the police said they couldn’t do anything because they didn’t witness it. Successfully sued the shit out of the bar for a pretty penny some time later thanks to video recorded by standbyers who watched the whole thing transpire.

I’ve never been an aggressive person and fighting is for baboon retards, but people who initiate physical confrontations deserve everything they inevitably have coming to them.

I’ve been in about 6-7 fist fights. A couple without booze and a couple with booze. As you get older it isn’t worth it and most people never take a beating and learn. But if I had to, I’d happily do it.

I also just remembered I got into another scuffle at a bar once after a guy grabbed my friends ass (who the fuck are these people that do this shit?). I'm noticing a recurring theme here that the women in my life get me into trouble. The funny part though is that I'd broken 2 ribs during rugby practice that week and so couldn't really throw a punch so I just wind back and crack this dude in the nose with my head. Split his shit wide open and he immediately was just like ok this kid doesn't care about his body, he is not scared to die, I'm going to leave.

I'm a Gen-X'er so I am from a generation where disagreements were handled with fists instead of guns/knives. Plus, I grew up down in the Carolinas so yes, I've been in more than a few fisticuffs. What did I learn? Well, I learned that if I led with my right, a left hook would usually connect.

In all honesty, the only fight I ever started is the only fight I ever lost. One of the best lessons of my life and I deserved to get my ass kicked. Otherwise, I only fought out of necessity when backed into a corner (either literally or figuratively).

I taught my boys how to fight yet inculcated into them the fact that they should only use what they'd learned if they were being physically attacked.

I do not advocate that fighting is the best way to handle ones disagreements but believe it is imperative that people be able to defend themselves.

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I used to get in fights all the time, no fault of mine either. I'd usually try to defuse but let's just say I'm a very easy target for racists. I did MMA/BJJ for a while so it usually worked out in my favor though. Plus helps that racists were usually completely shitfaced fucking idiots.

The most violent, bloody, passionate fights.

Were the ones with myself.

I like how my comment got two monkey shits, but I'm willing to bet the majority of you are white and was not arrested.

Only once, in middle school. Guy gave me a shove so I turned around and punched him in the face. Had a detention and that was it, the other guy had no punishment at all. I was livid.

No but I'm really starting to eye up some of our IR team people who doesn't do shit other than pushing workflows and forwarding emails... it's time for some of them to go night night

Been in several but none ever got too bad on the giving or receiving end, won most, lost some too, but always knew when to quit.

Then I decided to have a "for fun" fight with one of my best friends where we meant to like pull punches if possible and not go for the face. He knew mma and got me to the ground so quickly and it totally changed my thoughts on this stuff and made me realize that even though I fought a bunch as a kid and had to be tough growing up, there are people out there that can absolutely fuck me up. I literally would not even have landed a punch and I'm a lot bigger than him too.

As an adult with a career, I never want to be in a street fight again. My appearance and professionalism is important to me and reflects outward on those I work with, and I don't want to do anything to tarnish that.

In middle school and high school plenty of times. I learned fighting when I was really young though, like 6 or 7 learning the basics of boxing.

Beyond high school, no. There’s really no reason for it unless you’re in a really bad situation- which thankfully I haven’t ever been in. Fights aren’t like movies, even if you “win” you walk away with bruises and your hand hurts like a mofo. And especially over 18, odds are you can get arrested (even without going to jail, you still could spend a night or two there). Could fuck up your record, pay money in civil court. Not a good route to go

I was a little bit of a wise ass in my youth (elementary and junior high school) and I pulled a chair out from under a kid who was much bigger than me. He was very embarrassed after he fell to the floor. He harassed me for about a week until I agreed to fight him. I landed one punch and then the fight was over. Despite being on the small side, I was a very good athlete and a great punch ball player.

Two fist fights in middle school, and one instance in highschool where banter turned into anger pretty quick and I stood up and threw the dudes lunch at his face -- doesn't really count as a fight but was pretty funny and well deserved. Never learned to fight at the time my uncle used to just tell me to always throw the first punch and just stand your ground win or lose. I disagree with the whole "fighting is dumb" thing, if you like dudes pushing you around and making you their bitch then all the power to you.