If you’ve ever walked into a fight inwardly shaking your head at your own “teammates”… :rolleyes:
If you’ve ever had to do the “Hold me back!” thing on one of your friends, only for real… :mad:
…then yes, probably. :smack:
Well, I’m a girl, and more likely to talk than to fight, but if it came right down to it, I would NOT be pulling hair and scratching. 
I’m not proud of it, but I used to be a scrapper back in my rugby days.
As Cemetary said, just get them on the ground, people on the ground give up.
Especially when you yell “Stomp his brains out!”* Tends to curl them right up.
- I never kicked anyone when they were down, just found yelling that phrase to be a very effective tool in ending any aggression they might still be feeling.
I’m a pretty big guy 6’5" 220lbs and am a fairly decent boxer. I dont’ box anymore, but I certainly still know how to throw a punch as well as take one.
In a bar, there’s no refs, so the first thing I would do is grab a weapon - whatever’s handy like a beer bottle or a barstool. I’m not going to get hurt in a bar just because the other guy thinks it should be a fair fight.
In a straight-up, weaponless, “friendly” fight I would be rather useless. Now if improvised weaponry is available, I’m of more help. Start with a beer bottle across the face of my assailant, followed by gouging out his eyes, then beat him into a pulp with the barstool, all the while screaming “Die! Die! Die!” at the top of my lungs. This would tend to end a “friendly” fight rather quickly, methinks.
I’m a pretty big guy and I spend a lot of time at the gym but I don’t really have much of a mean streak. I was a bouncer for a while so I’m pretty good with submission and I have been in one fight before and that ended in my favour.
I don’t know, I probably fall into the hold my own category as I’ve never really dealt with more than one person at a time (so I’m no chuck norris). Even at the bar I worked at there were always five or six bouncers ready to pounce so I never had to deal with more than one person at a time.
The paperwork sucked at that job, by the way. We had to write a report on every incident just in case someone decided to sue.
My fighting skill is really untested in my adult life, but I’ve always said I’d be doing stuff like downwards kneecap stomps, kicks to the midsection, and blows to the side of the head.
Or the old move where you punch them in the stomach, they bend over, and you uppercut them. 
However, from the fight videos I see on YouTube or whatever most fights are either over very quickly or quickly degenerate into a lot of rolling around and grappling.
The couple of times this has happened, a bunch of buddies back me up and the protagonist backs down, leaving with a flurry of “motherfuckers”. Life’s been good to me so far (to quote someone).
I’d fall into the fetal position moaning in fear, my useless mitts flailing in terror.
So, fairly handy.
As a teenager, I was attacked by 5 girls at a football game. They went to the hospital via ambulance, I walked away with nothing more than annoyance. I had 2 older brothers who used to beat on me for shits and giggles and an older sister who would yell the “n” word in front of groups of blacks and point to me then take off out of the fray. Suffice it to say, I learned how to hold my own from a young age.
I tend to walk away from pending shit, but my brain tends to turn off once a punch is thrown in my direction, so I am really only helpful if someone attacks me directly. If you start shit, I will let you deal with the ensuing shitstorm on your own. As Will Smith once said “if you don’t start nuthin’ there won’t be nuthin’.”
ETA: :smack: Oops, I’m not a guy, but I have actually had to hold my own against guys before. The funniest incident being in high school when I was attacked by a 6’4" ex-friend – I was offered a spot on the football team based on his condition vs mine the next day.
I keep reading this as “How would handy be in a fight?” and I’m thinking not very good if he’s administering to your medical needs.
I would distract one of the opponents by having him kick my ass, allowing you to sucker-punch him. Is that helpful?
Welcome to the team. 
I like to think I wouldn’t be entirely useless. I’ve taken a couple of martial arts classes, and gotten to more than my share of wrestle-fights with siblings and friends.
But the fact is, I’m an 5’7" woman, and I’m at a considerable disadvantage even against an average-sized guy. There’s a chance I’d get in a knee to the groin or an eye-jab. If I didn’t, I’d be in trouble.
Just show us your boobs, then when we stop to gawk, kick us in the nuts.
I just might be able to disable the attackers with a sonic attack, letting out an ear-piercing shriek as I collapsed to the floor and passed out from fright.
Otherwise, no. I would be no help at all. Only 5’4", seriously overweight, complete couch potato. I would definitely hurt someone if I fell on him, though, but I don’t think that is the kind of help you need in this scenario!
I’m just the guy. I’m extremely skilled at talking people out of hitting me. I’m totally unqualifed to get in a fight. Most folks who enjoy fighting find no pleasure in simply pummelling a passive stranger. There’s no challenge.
I assume you are basically joking, but one likely problem you might expect in a bar fight is a lack of room to throw techniques such as kicks to the midsection or knees.
If you are serious, IMO it’s tough to beat elbows, headbutts, knees, and teeth for infighting.
Yeah either that, or, “Kick his teeth down his throat!”
Hmm…I think it depends on whether I was angry or scared. Angry Skald is irrational and bites and fights really dirty and wouldn’t care whether he won the fight so long as it ended with the other party in serious pain. I don’t like that guy, though.