Having been smaller in stature than most of my age group, I have a place in my psyche where I view infliction of corporal injury as anathema, full stop. It took me awhile to get there, though. I'd fight at the drop of a hat, but only in self-defense. I got in so many fights in school, and even in the Navy, that it cost me. I get no enjoyment watching fighting of any sort; I only did what I had to do to keep from getting hurt worse. When I see a hockey player whack another player with his stick in the back of the neck, and the guy is bleeding and unconscious, I wonder why in the hell isn't the perp arrested and taken to jail? Try that on the street and see what happens. Just because it is in some "sports" arena does not make it right, in any way.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.