Dennis Jones Quote about boxing and punching in the street

Heres dennis talking about his style of fighting in the street and why it differs from boxing
"It's not about punching' how I punch' being used in the ring, it's about defending yourself on the street.  Fundamentally, without gloves, without bandage wraps and no rules every boxer from a school boy to a world champion brawls on the street-you can even see that when boxers 'go for it' at a weigh in!  No boxer I've ever seen street fighting, fights like they train in a boxing gym and certainly don't fight in the same way that they do in a ring.  Something as simple as grabbing a boxer's left wrist will not only muck up his left jab but also his straight right punch-he'll end up swinging his right hand at your face as he tries punching over or through his own left arm!  

I've seen lots of boxers street fight, from good amateurs, semi pros, pros and even a world champion and they all brawl, admittedly some a lot better than others. I first start boxing as a school boy and remember talking to my trainer when I was 17.  He was a Second World War veteran, about 50 years of age and an ex pro who at the end of his career spent his time taking on all-comers in fair ground booth boxing. I was talking about using boxing in the street. His fatherly advice was 'boxing can be helpful but be careful there are some really good fighters out there that don't box...'  It's a flaw of thinking to think that all street brawlers are just idiots.  In my experience a lot of 'handy street fighters, were boxers who had adapted their techniques, based on personal experience, for the street.  They upped their game and were not adverse to grabbing, grappling, sticking both the nut and boot in and gouging and biting!   
   
I don't know what America is like. I only knew one bloke who worked out there, in LA, for about five years as a bouncer.  So his comment to me - he only had one physical altercation in five years - that: 'a lot of guys mouth off but don't fight because it's too dangerous to', (...because of the amount of guns around the place), might only be his experience and not typical of America in general.  I don't know but I do know that 'An armed society is a polite society'.  And as we know the best unarmed fighter in the world is no match for a 10st idiot armed with a gun, even .22 caliber revolver!  Joe Frazier carried a hand gun for self protection and if such a distinguish boxer felt a need to have a handgun...so speculating what works or doesn't work on the streets for unarmed self defense seems to me to be purely speculative for a lot of Americans, especially as their society has written in its Constitution...The Right to Bear Arms... " Dennis Jones