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• n  a fight with bare fists
• n  fighting with the fists

• Its sword-wielding characters preferred fencing to fisticuffs.
• That was the end of it: no fisticuffs on the field, no rioting in the stands.
• Bond occasionally engaged in fisticuffs with a brigand, but that was just a different kind of workout.

• fistfight
• slugfest
• boxing
• pugilism

News & Articles

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• Is this the end of hockey fights?
  The NHL may tighten restrictions on in-game fisticuffs, but it'll face stern resistance from violence-loving fans        
  June 26, 2013 - Salon.com
• Fisticuffs video slot is knockout success
  (PRESS RELEASE) -- Net Entertainment is pulling no punches with its Fisticuffs online video slot that’s sure to prove a real hit with players. Set in the early 1900s, at a time when boxing was for gentlemen, Fisticuffs features a pair of fighters on the reels ready for action.
  June 25, 2013 - Rolling Good Times
• Gaming N ews
  (PRESS RELEASE) -- Net Entertainment is pulling no punches with its Fisticuffs online video slot that’s sure to prove a real hit with players. Set in the early 1900s, at a time when boxing was for gentlemen, Fisticuffs features a pair of fighters on the reels ready for action.
  June 25, 2013 - Casino City Times

Quotes

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• Gary Bettman in International Herald Tribune
  We're not warranting whether or not there'll be fisticuffs,Bettman said. "But there will be a competition that has all of the intensity and emotion and passion and skill that our game has."
• Romeo Crennel in USA Today
  I could look at a guy cross-eyed and he could charge me with something for looking at him wrong. No fisticuffs occurred, or anything, to my knowledge. I am going to wait until I find out all the facts before I make any kind of judgment,...
• Rick Perry in International Herald Tribune
  That seems to me to be to be a natural progression in a democratic society,Perry said. "People are feeling comfortable about expressing their opinion and what have you, so I was pretty excited about a little fisticuffs, a little protest."