Have you ever fought someone you thought you had no chance of beating?

This is a common element in combat sports, even though you could win a fight on points somehow. I think of a fight like Narvaez vs. Donaire or even Arce vs. Donaire where those guys went in to the fight pretty much knowing they had no real shot at beating him.

Anyone ever fought in a situation like that where they pretty much knew they had no chance but fought anyways? In real life, it takes a certain mindset or maybe even stupidity to do this. I haven't done it personally, but have challenged people that I thought would destroy me in a fight but it was over something worth fighting for in those situations and luckily we never fought. Or in another stupid situation I challenged 5 guys to a fight over something stupid and luckily they didn't jump me (I'm an idiot).

This isn't a thread about how much of a badass you are, but I'm curious if other people have been in fights in this type of situation

I credit God for me not getting stomped out a few times cause I probably deserved it for challenging more than one person to a fight at a time on multiple occasions though if you're the other guys, you probably gotta be thinking that the dude challenging multiple people to a fight at once is maybe a little crazy or strapped? I can't call it.

I've also backed down though to dudes that seemed to be a little crazy before and felt like a bitch afterwards. I'm at the point in life and have been for some time that I don't feel like just about anything is serious enough to fight over unless they're swinging punches at me or doing something to my kids. Even someone saying something negative to my kids immediately puts me in a different mode.

Side note to what I just said: I was at a Dodgers/Padres game in San Diego at the park in the park and some dude threw a baseball over the dudes head he was playing catch with and it one hopped and hit my son in the leg and he started crying because he wasn't even 2 years old yet. I immediately got pissed off and saw the guy who wanted his ball back and I was gonna launch that ball like 50 yards away over the fence, but I tried to throw it so hard that it angled down and didn't have any trajectory and blasted some 10 year old kid (or around that age) right in the stomach and he folded up. I thought he wasn't that hurt but he was crying so hard he was making no noise at all, I guess it knocked his wind out. I felt bad and was fully expecting that kids dad to choke me out but no one ever showed up and his friends were helping him so I just bounced lol It was hilarious as soon as I thought about it later but I felt bad

^^ Always (try to) be smart and walk away.

After I learned more about the various martial arts things I know and boxing etc... I realized that I know enough to kill a man yet I have the confidence to know that 99% of confrontations are best to just walk away from. I'm a bitch? Fine. You say my mother is a whore? Okay. People aren't serious about something until they are literally attacking you and even then, use the minimum amount of force needed to get away. Using too much force seems to have a way of catching back up with you one way or another.

Yeah, being swole means nothing. Some of those fools geek off of people backing down all the time but can't throw a punch to save their lives. If it was self defense, I'm taking someones knee out any ways so who cares how swole they are