I would say you have done well, and be proud of that. Fighting is ugly and really dangerous, some people don’t know when to stop, and if your on the deck being stamped on then that is really not good, the NHS is no longer to be relied upon.
That said, I had a very tearful 18yr old daughter recently, who was dumped by her boyfriend, she wanted her clothes and stuff back from his house, so I said come on lets go and get it. He wasn’t there and he was hanging around in the park with 5 of his mates, in the meantime he was sending obscene texts to my girl, which started to wind me up. I just stormed into the middle of them without thinking, and then noticing that at least two of them were a bit tasty. I did my “are we going to sort this out like normal people?” only for his old man to appear, giving loads of mouth. I could never have won any fight, would have probably hurt maybe two of them by going in real quick, but then it just would have been madness.
I am an ex squaddie, who would always be in a fight, Colchester on a weekend springs to mind, being in the back of a 4 tonner driven by a couple of MP’s.
I have broken my nose twice and had 3 ribs broken.
My current wife abhors violence and I think actually she is right.
If your going to do it, learn to do it properly, join a gym and learn to be quick, which at 50+ is unrealistic. Stick to yoga.
Or as my mom would say” a good run is better than a bad stand”