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I'm a lover, not a fighter

I used to get into a lot of fights at school, but since I was 18 I dont think I have ever gotten into a fight, although I did once punch someone.

When I was I think 19 or 20, I was watching a soccer match (England vs Italy) - in the student car and there were also a group of local guys, who were all skinheads and part of the National Front (a little like the UK version of the KKK) - they were yelling abuse at a friend of mine at the front of the bar, because he was Greek Cypriot they thought he looked Italian, and then he got mad and hurled a glass into the centre of them.

All of the skinhead guys rushed to get at him,. and security came in from the other side, and there was a brawl, but this one guy to try and get at the one who threw the glass, shoved my girlfriend hard against the wall - I didnt really think about it I just got really mad and grabbed him and spun him round and punched him as hard as I could in the face. It was pretty hard I think because the glass front of my watch shattered and fell out and the minute hand fell off from the force of hitting him.

He staggered back away from the crowd and just stared at me, and I remember thinking "I just hit this dude as hard as I could and he isnt doing anything, he's gonna kill me now"... but then he kind of slumped to one knee and then sat down and slumped forwards holding his head, and I pushed away in the other way to get away from the main fight. Anyway, I wouldnt describe it as getting into a fight, since no one hit me, although I think he deserved what he got because he hurt my girlfriend.

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MrFlux

0. I'm a diplomat, I just talk my way out of shit.

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SinisterMotives

I've had belligerent guys threaten to hit me, but I just keep my mouth shut and look them in the eye until they cool off. They sometimes say they want to kick my ass but don't think they should, and that they don't understand why they shouldn't. I guess the Force is with me.

KellyC

Me, never in my life got into a real fight. Like MrFlux, I can talk my way out if things get heated, which is rare. On the other hand, fighting verbally, I do it on a daily basis
No swearing or insults, just sarcastic remarks I exchange with friends and family...

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World's King

Too many.

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jaco

If combat sports counts *eg. boxing, NHB, weapon sparring, etc* then i count many many fights. Otherwise only once or twice when someone has had the gall to start something and wish to actually see it through. It's all about what situations you put yourself into.

I would recommend everyone with any sort of competitive streak to get into combat sports. Its really nice to be the only guy in a fight that can throw a straight punch.

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canuckguy

I think fighting is for idiots first off, one punch and by accident you could be in jail for murder..etc cuz you never know what could happen with that punch or kick. But I have been in one adult fight myself out of self defence. Was crazy, got punched a few times, surprisingly did not hurt that much, threw some good haymakers back.
All in all a learning experience I guess, I say I won....but lost in reality as my hand was toast afterward. broke the second finger in on my right hand and crushed the bone on the top of my hand. lovely. The fight was over a girl of course. My wife and I were at a house party, very very early in our marriage (just what young marriage needs...), I did not know the guy but anyway at this party I ran into an ex girlfriend. we chatted and such, no biggie, my wife was beside me the entire time she and I chatted. Well the ex was there with her boyfriend who must be the jealous type. a few beers later, he got some liquid courage and squared me up. I tried to walk away but he pushed me from behind then we danced. fast forward years later and I now work with the guy lol. we still talk about that fight. he wins in his stories and i win in mine.

Harshaw

I was at the Utah warped tour, the Dropkick Murphies and the straight edgers were having little fights all day. I saw some edger hit the lead singer in the back of the head. I didn't do anything about it. I still feel bad about not getting involved in a fight.

Oh well, I guess I am better off with all my teeth.

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ARTelevision

after a youth spent fighting at least once a week, my college years were studded with frequent bouts of street-fights.
after college/grad school - no fighting.

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Meridae'n

My best mate has a big mouth when he's drunk, and I play Aussie Rules Football, so I really couldn't put a number on it. Getting older and wiser slowly though...

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Karby

none. though i have come pretty close to a few.

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DirtyVegas

6 submission / 2 cage nhb mma fights.....
been a bouncer here in Vegas for years, so ive had countless street fights also. Its always good to have the upper hand when defending yourself. i gotta recommend (even if your a lover) to at least take some self defense classes.

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absorbentishe

Good question. I've been the receipient a few times, without fighting back. Been in too many either way. It's been a long time since I've thrown down, and hope it stays that way.

Strange Famous

Well, I used to watch a lot of wrestling when I was younger, Im pretty sure if it came to it I could lock in the cross face chicken wing on anyone who attacked me

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dirtyrascal7

i can thankfully say zero, although my roommate has caused many near-fights... or should i say near-beatdowns... but luckily for him i was self-aware enough to realize we were outnumbered and dragged his ass to safety.

Journeyman

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Two (The first one I mention in the previous thread was when I was 16).

fhqwhgads

I've been in way too many.

Then again, it kinda goes with the job.

Merlocke

I used to teach Tae-Kwon-Do, Hapkido, Jiu Jutsu to a school of 300. So lots of sparring matches.

Real fights? only ever been in two - but not "adult" life.
First one was for my little bro when I was 12. (he was 8). Some big bully kicked him in the nuts, so I had to step up. Threw one kick to his back - he couldn't walk. (he had missed a haymaker at my head)

Second one - someone jumped myself and buddy with a gun. Wanted our cash. I just learned a jump spinning crescent kick, only been at it for a week - but was enough to kick the gun out of the guy's hand. Pure luck. He brought it up the exact same way my teacher raised the target pad. (which I still thank him for)
That was before I knew what I was really doing.

Now that I've seen real combat (not sport fighting anymore) and have trained a little in it. I never want to fight again. It's too dangerous, and people can really get hurt. (we get hurt enough - just sparring)

I second the thought on everyone learning a little self defence, but keep an open mind. No one style "beats" them all. And really learn what the founder was trying to accomplish. Martial arts are supposed to make you a better person all around. Not just a fighter.

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bernadette

i don't fight.

i might slam doors, hang up the phone, walk away from you... stew a bit...

..but then i chill the fuck out, think shit out & then approach you to try to discuss in a reasonable manner the issues at large.

failing reasonable discourse, i write you off. forever. no looking back.

i have no time nor need for hot heads or closed minds.

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Mehoni

Not started fights.. people just attack me unprovoced. I prefer not to be in crowds or among drunk people.

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qtpye4u84

I get into yelling matches but have not been in a real fight since high school.

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nanofever

I just finished high school a few months ago, and I haven't been in a fight in a LONG time. I find that fighting is a rather poor idea because even if I win; my fists are going to be hurting the next day even if I don't take a blow. When people try to get me to fight or get in my face, I will more often then not simply say "Hit me or walk away, either way this is going to be over in a minute or two". I find that people usually backdown at that point; then again, high schools are populated with people who think they are a lot more badass then they really are.

That being said, I also don't make it a point to make friends with people who are hot heads. Most of my near fights have been with people I barely know (Basketball games getting too rough, ect.).

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Peetster

None.

I can't imagine it.

Of course, if you threaten me or mine, I'll shoot and kill you. But that's different.

World's King

Like I said in my first post in this thread I've been in way too many fights. But I haven't been in one in years... till tonight.

I have an old friend that I had gotten into a small war with that had to do with a girl. I got mad. He got mad. It went on like this for about six months. We didn't speak and for the most part didn't care if the only one died or not.

Tonight I ran into him at a coffee shop after both of us had spent the night drinking. He walked up to me and asked if I wanted to go outside. I said sure. At this point it was stupid for us to be mad at each other so I figured if we were gonna fight we might as well do it now. So, we talk... faught... I have a huge fat lip and I got him once... he's bigger then me... We talk some more and settled everything and hung out for the rest of the night. And all I can say... for all the shit I talked about him, I got off easy. I would have killed me for what I had said. But we were friends for a reason and now we are friends again.

Everyone needs to get clocked at least once. And most people deserve it.

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animosity

a good healthy fight is good now and again... i havnt been in one(not counting boxing) in my long adult life(2 yrs)

raeanna74

I came close to a fight twice but never all out fist fought since I was 18. I've sparred plenty but nothing real.

First time was a friend of mine in college that got upset about something. He was all in my face and I shoved him back because he was just too close for comfort. We had students all around stand up at that and we knew it wasn't gonna be allowed to continue. We both backed down.

Second time was my brother was goin after my soon to be husband (2 weeks before the wedding) I stepped between, grabbed my bro's leather jacket and said "Dont' you dare." He backed down. I really don't know for sure what it was that made him back down. He's hit me before but I've always walked away in one piece. I hope it never comes to facing him down again.

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phyzix525

I have managed to stay out of any real fights (except for with my brother) almost my entire life until last month at a party I was REALLY drunk, and well my friend had a nice M-16 looking gun and well we were looking at it in his room and we were talking about how funny it would be to take it into the living room and tell everyone the party was over waving it around. Well it turned out that it was not a very good idea when one person took the whole thing wrong and really got upset. Of course he was there with a friend and was about a foot taller then I. I am not all that big either. I put it down and appologized but he continued to get into my face. Then he said lets take this outside, and let me remind you that I was really drunk so I think I thought sure what the hell why not. So we are standing there outside and he continues to yell and his friend is standing right there next to him and I tell him I am not interested in a fight. Then he pushes me. I stumble around and he comes after me with a punch to the face, but by pure instinct I just ducked my head down and he hit my forehead. Well this did not stop him and he contined to come after me. I think I got a couple a decent shots in myself but I did not see any damage on him after the fight. The last blow knocked me on my ass. I was laying in the grass outside looking at the stars and thinking, ah that wasn't so bad. I was covered in blood from my nose, but I was laughing almost the entire time. Everybody thought I was in pretty bad shape but I did not feel a thing. thanks to the jello shots.

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Sargeman

I used to box when I was in the Navy. Not like golden gloves or anything like that. Mostly just with guys on my submarine and sometimes against guys from other subs.

Last real fight was in St. Thomas against some marines in a club. They were outnumbered by a long shot. Eventually shore patrol and the marines MPs showed up before it got real ugly.

It was all started when someone bumped my friend who in turn bumped a marine who spilled his drink on this female sailor. He apologized and offered to buy him another drink. All was cool until she kept egging the marine on and on until his inner marine-mentality came out ( you know the I'm bad and can kick your ass one). That was back in '92.

I was a corrections officer in Louisiana and got in many figths there. That was in the mid 90's.

I've come close in the last couple of years in some of the local bars here.

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majik_6

I've actually never been in a real fight. I've only punched two people (non-jokingly) and both were early, early grade school.

I think the fact that I tend to diffuse most situations easily helps. That, and in highschool I was 5'11" 300 pounds. Not many people wanted to mess with me (little did they know a 10 year old school girl could kick my ass).

I'm not a big fan of fighting, but there are certain things that will drive me to violence. Luckily no one's ever had me catch them donig any of those things.

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stevie667

I can say that i used to be a right little git in my younger years at school, pretty much starting fights every 10 minutes.
Thankfully, i calmed down a load, and am now pretty much a pacifist all the way through.

The only major fight i've been involved in was at a party with some friends. My little sis turned up crying saying that a group of guys have just chased her here and generally were really scaring her.
I've never really been much of a bigger brother, but as soon as i found out they were hanging around nearby, i grabbed a couple of my larger, more drunken mates, and stormed outside.
We found this bunch of guys about 18 yrs old (my sister at the time was 15) throwing things at passing cars.
In a nutshell, we friends grabbed them and asked them what the fuck they thought they were playing at.
It was at this point one of them threw a punch, and all hell broke loose.

In the end we were dragged away kicking and screaming (by pretty much the rest of the partygoers) from the entire area so we wouldn't get arrested when the ambulance and police turned up to get those guys to hospital for the mauling we'd given them.


Not my proudest moment, but it was necessary all the same. On the whole though i try to avoid fights wherever possible, because i know the only way they will end is with someone being dead, or both of us being so badly injured the fight can't continue.

Edit: stopped an insane amount of fights being an imprompteau bouncer at partys and gigs, but then again most people give up when they see some 6'2" tank dressed in an all black suit and leather trench coat storming towards them.

Blackthorn

Mr. Bluuuuuutarrrski.....zero point zero!

Unless of course you count the fights with the ex-girlfriend who would get very beligerent after a margaritas and start "shit" over nothing at all. It could be that my name wasn't "kjroh" to which I would politely say "but dear, of course my name is kjroh". All hell would break loose then the fight was on. Not physical contact fighting but rather the verbal kind of battle that no one should like as much as she did. That's why she's my "ex" So happy to be away from that mess but she did give pretty good hummers and that's a quality I do miss about her.

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bartgroks

Twice as an adult.

Halloween 87 I was jumped by skinheads. I was dressed as a mad scientist for christ sakes. I got fucked up but my friend Dan (who was dressed up as Jason from Friday the 13th) was beaten in to a coma and had to have reconstructive surgery done on his face. I remember becoming aware of myself in the backseat of a car heading north on us 75 looking over at Dan and thinking "Fuck I hope I dont look that bad"

Then in 92 some drunk guy grabbed my wife's tit at a Mojo Nixon show. It seemed like I had forever to consider my options but really it had to be just a second. I figured I had to hit the guy or I would be hearing about til the end of time. So i hit him.

hmmmm...then there was that time at that Rigor Mortis show the whole bar decided to kick my ass and I am remembering other incidents from my drunken youth. I am not sure any more how many times but I dont want to think about it any more either.

No fights for 12 years now and I am plannin on doin the next 40-50 years the same way.

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merkerguitars

None so far thank god, I have broke up some fights, and I have seen alot outside of bars.

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MSD

I've come pretty close in mosh pits, and ended up with some nice bruises and black eyes, but that's for fun, not serious fighting.

Spanxxx

Never as an adult. Don't figure I've been that close either. I'm just not in situations where it usually comes up. I'm only usually around friends or family. I don't go to bars, or clubs, or crazy mosh pits, or wild concerts, so it just seems that I'm not really in those situations. I think I'd like to keep it that way. I did take Tae-kwon-do for about half a year once though. That was fun. There's definitely something primal in us that likes fighting.. but I'd just assume to avoid it.


Never voluntarily as a youth. Was once hit by a kid I knew when I was a freshman in high school. I was walking home from school and he desperately wanted to be cool so he rode home with some loser upper classmen that egged him on to do stuff. They stopped, tossed him out and I guess told him to go hit me. He came up to me, and started mouthing something off, and I was like, "Craig, what are you talking about?" Then, he just hit me in the mouth. I just looked at him, stepped around him, and continued to walk home. If I had tried anything, the 4 other upper classmen in the truck would have jumped out and all taken their turn. I think I made the wiser choice to just walk away.

I'm surprised someone never beat the crap out of me though. I had a few people who wanted to I'm sure, but I would always either diffuse the situation someway, or I'd using biting sarcasm to make them look more the fool for wanting to fight in the first place and they would lose their "support" group because they'd be laughing at the person who wanted to fight in the first place.

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wallace1

A few, too many I guess. It doesn't help that I live right smack in the middle of NJ. People here don't really think too much of throwing a punch, what they do think about is calling the police once one starts. Which doesn't do anybody any good. I know that fighting is stupid and immature, but sometimes they just happen.

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cartmen34

I do my best not to surround myself with people who think that a physical fight is the best way to solve things.

so my answer would be 0. I haven't even SEEN a fight since I was in high school.

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H12

I got into a fight about this time last year. The guy was drunk and high, and only wanted to fight me because I was there. I wasn't in the mood to fight, however (I had just been no-showed by a girl from another town, so it was a long drive back to my town), so after he had already hit me twice and slammed my car-door on me, I cheap-shotted him to try to end the fight quick; I slammed my knee into his sac, pretty much, followed by a killer punch to the nose and a mean headlock.

I found out later that week that he went to the hospital and had to have surgery to remove one of his balls. Despite him cussing my mom out just days before I heard this news (I was ready to kill him during this period), I prayed for him and wished he could get some peace.

Fast-forward to November; the guy still doesn't like me, as expected. I'm walkin' down my school hallway when the guy shoulder-rams me out of nowhere. I turn around and got ready to push him, but I stop myself 'cuz now I'm 18 and probably shouldn't do that. He turns around and starts cussing me out...simple stuff, like "you bitch", "come on, faggot", all those simple slurs. He'd also been tryin' to give me trouble all through-out the school-year, so I decided I'd share something honest with him.

I got in his face, and said "you're a one-balled freak".

He swung at me (rightfully so, too, heh), and we fought for a lil' bit more before it got broken up. Then when I was in the office, the guy broke in and tried to fight some more, but our vice principle tackled him down. Lastly, afew minutes later, he tried to break into the same room again...but this time the door was locked, so he cracked his head on the door and fell, hard. Then an officer came and took him away, all of which I got to see. It made me smile.


I've been in abunch of fights, but those are the only two that were in/near adulthood.

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Rdr4evr

Fortunately none, though I have been close, but its not worth it.

Polyphobic

Once in elementary school. I was young and don't remember much of it. Also, once as an adult. Truthfully, it wasn't much of a fight since I was jumped. Was unable to respond since it happened very quickly.

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