dvcochran
Grandmaster
Street fight, bar room brawl, back alley match; I hope we can all agree the OP intended the same meaning.Thank you for the explanation, there's quite a few non Americans on this site so slang terms aren't such a good idea, confuses the issue.
I've seen a lot of fights between random strangers, perhaps you have even been down Union Street in Plymouth ( Raleigh and Drake's home port) lol, civilians like to take on the Royal Marines. Where I am the local civvies like to take on the squaddies, sometimes the squaddies take on other squaddies if they are different regiments or corps. I've had the pleasure of breaking up a few of them.
When people say 'street fight' to me it sounds pretentious, people trying to make out they are something they aren't. Besides, Street is a very nice town in the south west of the UK, they rarely have fights.