As a kid my older brother taught me how to defend myself teaching me how to box. I think I got into one fight in high school and never again until many years later after divorcing in my late 40's when i merely was defending myself against some obnoxious drunk gal in a night club. i simply remember what I was taught and I was able to keep her at bay with my fists until i landed a punch good enough to her nose and she backed off. A few years after that the guy I was seeing showed me this site. I was slightly intrigued read some posts and quite frankly a lot of it was BS. He talked me into posting a profile and of course I received messages, mostly from flakes. I did get one from a gal who lived fairly close and we exchanged emails and agreed to meet a coffee place. Ultimately this led to my first arranged matched and it was a bare fisted boxing match. There was supposed to be no grabbing, hairpulling or any other nonsense. Halfway thru the fight she began breaking the rules and grabbed my hair. We ended up on the floor and it got out of control. While on top of her I punched her once in the face and yelled at her that we were done unless she wanted to regroup and go by the rules. We ere frozen because I had her pinned. She cooled off and agreed to finish the match as we agreed. After one more round she gave up. I had a few more arranged matches and in these we boxed with handwraps and there were no problems keeping the matches to straight boxing. I personally prefer a controlled fight standing up and using nothing but fists. It may not be sexy but that is what I enjoy and it gives me a rush. Due to being so damn busy I haven't had the time in the past two years to coordinate for another match, but time allowing I will at some point.
