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Originally Posted by just another ref
Either somebody here described it this way or I dreamed this, but I like this explanation. One punch does not a fight make. If A1 punches B1 during a live ball and that is the end of it, I have no problem with a flagrant personal. But if this punch leads to further activity, the whole thing is a fight, which started with the start of the first swing, or perhaps even with the contemplation of that first swing, not with the actual contact. This, I think, is when 10-3-8 comes into play.
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Interesting take. I don't agree with it, but it is an arguable theory.
I don't believe that it is correct because of how the definition of fighting in 4-18-1 is written.