I have big mouth and got in at least 6-10 fights from 5th grade on. I'll share 2 stories, the first is when I met Leroy Brown, and the other was opening day as a freshman at Reavis high School.
My 2 brothers 1 4 years older, and 1 2 years younger are both 6'4 to my 5'11" and so when ever they are around I have a tendency to shoot my mouth off and start fights, well wouldn't you? I never had to finish them, my brothers usually stopped or kicked enough ass too stop it.
Well my younger brother, who is really tough, no shit, (he's been beating my ass since we were 15 & 17) and I take on a guy that I accused of stealing a friends walet, immediately he get's my younger brother in a headlock hold but can't really beat on him because of "me" the barking dog that is trying to hit him while he struggles with my brother, but what happens actually is that while he's holding my brother he hits me dead on not only once but 3 freek'n times folks...this was Leroy Brown I'm here to tell ya that SOB could have kick our asses but actually started laughing so hard at me getting hit 3 times he let go of my brother and said...."would you like you choose someone else to help you? I've cracked this fool 3 times, he's worthless!" With that my younger brother looks at me and the birds a flying all around my head, and he asks am I OK, I say yeah, but I can't do shit to this fucker, so he say's "no way dude, yer bad, I ain't never seen this before and I don't want any more".
We all shook hands and laughed for a few more minutes, and yes he admitted to being a trained boxer, wrestler and all around protector kinda guy, he don't look for trouble, and he was tall but NOT that big a man, but a fighter....just like on TV dudes this guy was tough.
You had to see my MF'n this guy about how I'm gonna break his jaw and then BAM I get hit right in the nose, and then BAM he get's me again, I was soo freek'n shocked he let me get my senses and did it again before he started laughing. It was the best I swear, and he was cool and said I don't fight you guys, and I didn't steal the walet.
I got to tell another, and you have to have a photographic mind to get it.
My older brother is a senior and has been there at Reavis for 3 years now. He also hangs with the bullies and has a reputation for fighting and being an all around trouble making bad ass. Me, I weight all of 140lbs soaking wet, no
reputation. Picture the lunch room on the first day of my freashman year, and
I choose a table to sit down and eat my lunch where some other freashman students are that I met just that day and even though they are at the end of a table full of seniors I sit there also. As I sit down my change falls out of my hand and rolls towards the seniors. One guy gives me back some of the money right away and another doesn't...so when I ask for it he say's "Oh the little freshman gonna cry if I don't give him his quarter? and I say, no, I'll just tell my big brother to give you a quarters worth of an asskicking". He laughs as do the others now and say's oooohh who's yer big bad brother....and I say his name and you got to see all the heads of the freshman and the other seniors turning left and right and left and right as we speak, and then the jaw drops when I say his name...this guy liked to shit right in his chair, and then I called over to my brother who just happens to be 2 tables away and I said, Billy, this guy won't give me my quarter back and he's says you ain't shit!
I swear my brother stood up and said "what, who said that" and we all watched this guy leave, I mean get up and almost run right out of the lunch room, it was the best. Needless to say, like a 400lb Gorilla, I could go anywhere I wanted from that day on. My big brother, a wonderfull thing to have on opening day as a freshman in High School. I thank him all the time you know, we had more fun, but I've gone on long enough.