Street fighting is hand-to-hand combat in public places, between individuals or groups of people. The venue is usually a public place and the fight sometimes results in serious injury or occasionally even death. Some street fights can be gang-related.
Goya, Man Interfering in a Street Fight (1812–20)
Street fight in Jimma, Ethiopia
Fight between 2 men
Hand-to-hand combat is a physical confrontation between two or more persons at short range that does not involve the use of ranged weapons. The phrase "hand-to-hand" sometimes include use of melee weapons such as knives, swords, clubs, spears, axes, or improvised weapons such as entrenching tools. While the term "hand-to-hand combat" originally referred principally to engagements by combatants on the battlefield, it can also refer to any personal physical engagement by two or more people, including law enforcement officers, civilians, and criminals.
Pankratiasts portrayed on a Roman relief. 2nd or 3rd century A.D.
Corporal Alvin "Tony" Ghazlo, the senior bayonet and unarmed combat instructor at Montford Point, demonstrates a disarming technique on his assistant, Private Ernest "Judo" Jones.
Hand-to-hand combat training in the Soviet Army, 1976
Rangers in Action 10-African Land Forces Summit, US Army Africa, 2010
