Nope. Never. I've fast-talked strangers out of beating friends and relatives a few times. Gotten my idiot ex-brother-in-law out of a couple of pubs after he'd been sucker punched and was ready to get his ass handed to him. Different times I've put my glasses in my shirt pocket and stretched out while sitting, and made sure that if my chair went over I would be in stance. But never actually did the fandango with anybody. btw - when in a pub where it seems like things are a little snaky always take a whiz in a stall with the door latched. Piece of advice given to me from a guy who knows.
There was a bully-boy a bit older and larger than I was when I worked in a kitchen my first job. He was ragging on my so I clapped my hands together loudly in his face to startle him. Misjudged the distance (I don't have depth perception the way most folks do) and caught the end of his nose. Damn but I laughed at him while he wept and clutched at his face. He never ever bugged me again. Actually acted like he wanted to be a buddy, but that was just too stupid. What am I, alpha dog? Go away, fellow. Another guy in high school football the one year I played was being a dick after a game while we were in the change room. I put my hand on his forehead and rammed his head into the wall and told him to shut the fuck up. He shut up.
Anything else was all in fun. Wrestling with the natives while landscaping. Literally - the Native American guys on the crew loved that I had the balls to go for it, and they never ragged me the way they did some of the other skinny white boys on the crew.
I had a couple of years of karate and kung-fu with some thuggish guys who were trained up by a very cool old Japanese sensei. These fellows were street-fighter types who were a little shady, and thought nothing of banging fists/revenge attacks/baseball bat beside the front door - crazy shit like that. I have never used my training in a fight, and that training was 25 years in my past. The simple weights and light jogging I do now wouldn't do nearly the amount of good a few months sweating in a grungy dojo could, but the work outs would probably cripple me
