WASHINGTON—Contradicting the long-held belief that they would just go off and destroy anyone who tried to mess with them, a Department of Health and Human Services report published Thursday revealed that U.S. males would be on average 4,000 percent less effective in a fight than they imagine.
“Despite the typical American male’s conviction that he would viciously beat down anyone who came at him and end the whole thing with one punch, we found that in the event of an actual violent altercation, most adult men would almost certainly injure themselves far worse than any assailant,” read the 80-page report, which went on to confirm that nearly all American males would be unable to execute a single maneuver they envision themselves capable of performing, be it an uppercut, a roundhouse, or grabbing an opponent by the back of the neck and smashing his face down into the bar.
“Predictions of being amped up on massive adrenaline rushes or having multiple friends jump in to back them up are similarly unfounded, with over 75 percent of confrontations instead projected to end with panicked apologies or pleas to be let out of a headlock.” The report stated, however, that the majority of men correctly estimate that such fights would last a total of six seconds.
I'd like to know which members on here have been in an actual fight and recount the details.
Almost got in a brawl with some 2 pint Rocky in Patterz. Bodybuilding type and a first class jerk.
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Been a long time but played American Tackle Football into my 40-50's....played tourney softball a spin off from baseball competing throughout the US/Mexico until the the move here being ranked in the top 300 in my age group in the US....we still take people out sliding and/or enforce as needed....
Last tourney in CM took the catcher out with a slide home.....can still hit a ball in the 350-400 foot range - one of 3 here that can - the others are in their 20's.....
So - yeah - if needed, coupled with my size and ability to give and absorb punishment I could cause a lot of damage....or at least assure my family would have time to get to safety.....
I use to take people up then down, for a living. Thousands of them.
But I wouldn't like the physical version of that. My wife deals with all the repairs to the human body after people get tough with each other.....her stories are nauseating.
I've not been in a fight for a while - last time I was a guy hit me on the head with a hammer and I wasn't very impressed with that. The onlookers weren't very impressed when I tried to wedge his head below a seven tonner wheel and run over it.
Cause of fight? he was high on drugs, combined with the arrogance of thinking he was a gangster, and getting involve in something that was nothing to do with him.
I can't say I was happy being hit by the hammer - that did annoy me.
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