1957 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
I've heard old people, or rather really old people, as I'm gray in the beard now myself, spout this nonsense before. What gave rise to these myths? I remember fights from high school, and no one shook hands afterwards. In at least two memorable instances the loser left in an ambulance and the winner was hauled off to jail. I can't think of a single instance where the loser felt good enough to stand up on his own and shake hands.
Wow, you must have been in a tough school.
In mine, fistfights ended up with bloody noses and bruises, not much else. I’m not “really old”, I’m 59. I did grow up in a small town where everyone knew one another.
There were neighbor boys down the street that used to harass me when I walked to school My younger brother, Bob, had a fight with one of them, broke his finger, and that was the end of the problem.