I kickboxed for a few years and had lots of fights in the ring with the gloves on. Where I trained was full contact (not the hit the guy, back off, first person to 3 wins like most karate/taekwondo places) and I got to admit I got my ass kicked quite a bit. The theory was you only get better by fighting guys who are better than you. One of the worst beatings I got was from a chick! I wasn't really expecting it and she just came at me like some psycho bitch. She knocked me out cold less than a minute into the first round. I later found out she was the girlfriend of one of the guys that was training to go pro and had been fighting for a long time herself. Just goes to show that you should never underestimate the other guy (girl )

Outside of the gym I've only ever been in two "real" fights. First time was with some drunk guy in a bar who wanted to start something with me. I wasn't in the mood and told him to back off but he wouldn't listen. He took some total drunken wild swing at me and I popped him with a couple of quick jabs. Fortunately the guy wasn't so drunk that he couldn't realize he wasn't gonna win and backed off. Not much of a fight really.

Second fight I was in started whith some guy driving crazy through a parking lot and almost hitting me, my wife, and daughter. I was seriously pissed and started screaming "you fucking asshole..." He heard me, drove back, and jumped out of the car to start something. I'm normally a mellow guy but when somebody does something that threatens my family I lose it. Like most people who think they're tough the guy had no idea how to fight and I ended up hurting him pretty bad. Mother fucker deserved it.