How to Win a Street Fight EVERY TIME

“How to Win a Street Fight EVERY TIME.” “How to Always Win a Street Fight!.” “How to win a street fight in 3 steps!”

I love reading titles like these on Instagram posts and random YouTube videos. The more you understand real fighting, the more these types of messages warm your heart. They make you realize how many con men and phonies are out there. Anyone who has actually experienced combat knows just how difficult fighting can be. The reality is simply that most people are not “Jason Bourne”, “Jack Reacher”, or any other fictional agent.

Street fighting is often brutal and unforgiving. People can get hit and lose complete consciousness while suffering irreparable brain damage in the process. Worse yet, who knows what can happen to them shortly afterward as the assailant and/or his friends jump in to continue the attack?

Wanna know how to win a street fight? Here’s the truth.

Here’s something you’ve probably heard during your health class in school: abstinence is the only way to be 100% safe from STDs and unplanned pregnancies. This argument also holds true to fighting in the street. The only way to “win” every street fight is to avoid them at all costs. Want to learn some super-secret fight technique? Cardio! Work on it often and keep it sharp in case you need to run your ass away from trouble. Most street fights are just not worth the risk.

Take me for instance; I KNOW how to fight and I still avoid altercations at all costs. There is rarely (if ever) anything to gain. There is no point in trying to impress some chick or gain the respect of random guys watching. I think I heard Joe Rogan say this once, but it’s absolutely true: “average men overestimate their ability to fight by 80/90%.” I’m paraphrasing.

This video will some it up wonderfully, and the statistic in the video’s title is probably even MORE accurate. 

Okay, but WHY should I avoid a fight?

Read this next part very carefully and keep in mind that this is coming from a professional fighter:

• Fighting is UTTER FUCKING CHAOS
• You DON’T know what will actually happen
• You WON’T be able to control everything that comes your way
• There is no referee, bell, or corner men to come save you.

There are rarely winners in a street fight, merely possible survivors. Everyone has a decent-quality video camera in their pocket nowadays. On top of that, most every street corner has video surveillance that will show the incident. If you’re lucky, you survive and are shown in a good quality light to the public eye. If you’re unlucky, you’ll end up plastered all over Worldstar Hip Hop or worse yet, some sort of Faces of Death type website as a victim.

How to win a street fight when I can’t avoid it?

If you MUST fight, and I mean absolutely life or death situation where they’re about to murder your family if you don’t do anything, then boxing is your best bet to survive.

This doesn’t mean that you’ll square up, touch gloves, and have pillows on your hands to participate in a sporting endeavor. This means that training in the discipline of boxing will give you the ability to have seen patterns of punches flying at you, which means you won’t feel utterly hopeless during a fight. You’ll definitely still be scared and nervous, but willingly exposing yourself to punches on a daily basis by training in boxing will prepare you far more for a street-fight-type situation where you’re possibly caught off guard.

Why is boxing my best option?

You’re not going to kick someone in the head during a fight, for one. You’re probably wearing pants and the likelihood of missing and falling over is too high. Imagine trying to kick and missing, then ending up on the ground as your attacker and his boys decide to trample and kick you to a bloody pulp.

People in street fights are unforgiving, so I also don’t see you “taking him down” then rolling around on the hard ground, covered in god knows what, as you try to pull off an armbar. The last place you want to be in a street fight is on the ground, so boxing wins once again. I LOVE the argument that 90% of street fights end up on the ground. Yes, you might be right, but 100% of street fights START standing up. This means you have a solid window here if you know what you’re doing.

Other benefits to boxing

Additionally, Boxing isn’t just always about learning to deliver a punch. Sure that’s a huge part of it, and you learn how to do so with speed, power, and accuracy, but I believe the real gold in boxing can come from gaining the ability to:

• See
• React
• Defend
• AVOID punches

A bit more comfort comes with this territory too. As a boxer and fighter, you’ll never be truly 100% comfortable. Nerves are always there as part of the process, but you will become much more comfortable with dealing with the nerves and persevering in spite of them. Actual fighting is a brutal, violent, chaotic, uncomfortable, and abnormal fucking thing. Boxers train because of how we grow from undergoing this process. It changes us for the better. We volunteer for the discomfort that fighting brings, knowing the peace we find after going to war. This is what separates us from the common person.

Doesn’t avoiding a street fight make me a pussy?

Short answer: no. Real boxers know the dangers of combat, which also keeps us away from seeking it outside of environments where we train. EVERY real boxer I have ever met in my life has always avoided street fighting at all costs. I’ve even witnessed them backing down from drunk morons that were in their face. Real fighters never actually felt threatened by these dorks, though I have seen some dummy test the waters by cocking back their fist and paying the price for it.

After all my wisdom and experience on this earth, no matter how I look at it, the only thing that should take place when dealing with idiots is to walk away. Fighting is rarely worth it outside of using it for actual survival. Often, you can survive by walking/running away, checking your ego, or if it is the worst possible case scenario – fighting. If it happens to come down to that, a skill like boxing will DEFINITELY come in handy.

In this crazy world we live in it is better to “have hands” and know how to use them when you don’t need to, versus needing to use them and not knowing how.

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