This post talks a lot about stance and how to throw a punch, and it does mention grappling but if you're talking about your standard bar fight then I think grap

This post talks a lot about stance and how to throw a punch, and it does mention grappling but if you're talking about your standard bar fight then I think grappling is where everything happens. How often have you seen a bar fight where two people circled each other, jabbing and feinting like a boxing match? More often than not they grapple messily, go to the ground, flail around some more at each other, and then their friends break them up. I wrestled (scholastic wrestling) in high school and college, and that experience has helped me tremendously in whatever bar scuffles I've ended up with. If anyone did want actual advice on how to win a bar fight, the first thing I'd suggest is they take lessons in something like freestyle wrestling or judo. If you can handle yourself in close quarters, you can negate a lot of what a bigger or stronger opponent could do. One more thing, since I see some people advocating "just knock him out with a 2x4 while he's still jawing at you" -- as I almost learned the hard way in college, if you throw the first punch, that's assault. It's very tempting when some idiot is jawing at you to just end things before they start, but then he could call the cops and press charges and you'll have a huge legal hassle to deal with for the next year. Once he swings at you, retaliation is self-defense and it's fair game.