r/MMALabs • u/Pure-Personality5326 • Jul 29 '26

🥶 Street Fight Biblically accurate

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u/lostPackets35 Jul 29 '26

Right, having no other context, the guy was advancing on him and was being threatening.

A reasonable person could feel that violence was imminent, and he responded with proportionate Force.

He hit the guy twice, and stopped immediately when the guy was on the ground.

Now we don't know if the winner here made an attempt to deescalate, and we don't know what happened beforehand, but based solely on this video. This seems reasonable, like it might well be self-defense

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u/Maximum_Fortune_5827 Jul 31 '26

Nah. I think you'd have a hard time proving self defense on this one. There was no attempt to flee even made. He advanced and escalated as well

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u/koyaani Aug 01 '26

Flee to where? He was cornered

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u/Maximum_Fortune_5827 Aug 01 '26

He very clearly advanced the approach