fisticuff

If you had an argument with man that escalated to fisticuffs you set your weapons aside.

The sport is decaying, and fisticuffs (far more degrading work) are ousting it altogether.

Immediately he became the most notorious barber in the Five Towns, on account of his gab and his fisticuffs.

Reasons are as plentiful as blackberries; and, like fisticuffs, they serve impartially with all sides.