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What skills would be most effective in a street fight?

This is gonna sound odd but humor me. The world is becoming more and more dangerous. So I am looking to gain some skills in self defense for IF I were ever forced into a street fight. In the city I live in I have the following options: Boxing Tae kwon do Jiu Jitsu Wrestling Which, if any, of these would help me to protect myself in a street fight? Thanks to anyone who can help. Any other advice would be respected and appreciated.

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1. Look most average Mr Joe are weak and fragile. Plus most people will start fight standing up. So why waste your time and money learn all complex difficult stuff if you can just take up boxing for cheap? All you'll need to win almost any fight with a average man is a good combo or single hard blows and he'd be out cold. I'm a kickboxer and MMA fighter, however I find it way easier to end fight with a single blow than try to trade blows and get hurt and land many weak blows before the fight is over. So for this very reason, I rely on Muay Thai more than anything. I end two fight with a single blow. I've took a fight to the ground and it didn't end fast at all and I could have got hurt badly because I give the person more time to attack or do something to me. So take up boxing. You'll learn how to avoid punches very well which make it very hard for even experienced boxer to hit you, let lone someone who have never trained. Plus you'll be able to deliver some really hard blow that would knock anyone out or at least with a single clean combo. However if your high school or college offer wrestling for free, take it too. It doesnt hurt to learn a bit of ground work.
2. A kick on the sensitive part(lower part) and a powerful punch on the nose that will knock ur enemy down!
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4. All of them will help. I'd start in this order: a) boxing b) wrestling c) taekwondo d) jiu jitsu But in the long run, it does not matter. If you master one of those and get competent in the rest, you will be just fine.
5. wrestling, you cant go wrong and ive found out when i face wrestlers when im fighting, sparring they can take me down at ease and contyrol me on the ground, and iver actually done some wrestling, do wrestling for a year or 2, then go to boxing
6. Any of them *may* help you. But you have to consider what your strategy would be. All fights start on the feet. Therefore the striking (punch/kick) systems of boxing and Taekwondo would be first on your list. Now Taekwondo, right or wrong, has a reputation for being largely kicking-based. While I would encourage you to take a free class or two, just to see if you like it, I would say that based on the fact that kicks leave you with less balance and require a rather artificial distance when considering a street confrontation, I'd encourage you to lean more towards boxing. As well, the training methods associated with boxing tend to be more practical than the training methods normally used by Taekwondo. Now there's also the possibility of the fight ending up in a clinch or ground situation. In that case, there's no substitute for either Jiujitsu or wrestling. Here again we have to look at both the inventory of the systems and the training methods. Wrestling, presumably amateur wrestling, is based largely on takedowns and pins. For self-defense, you want to avoid those situations. Luckily, those that train wrestling have some of the best takedown defense in martial arts, but some of the pin-avoidance can involve exposing your back, which would leave you vulnerable to strikes to the spine and back of the head, as well as chokes. Jiujitsu, meanwhile, teaches throws, chokes, and locks on the joints. Some schools teach basic striking (though nowhere near the level of TKD or boxing), and some teach some basic weapons work. However, where in wrestling you work against a resisting opponent, many Jiujitsu schools (except for the grappling-only Brazilian Jiujitsu) train with little or no resistance, which may give you a false sense of security and limit your problem-solving skills. Once again, I'd advise attending a free class or two in both of them. You will need a system that teaches you how to avoid going to the ground, and/or one that will teach you how to avoid being trapped there. Without seeing the two schools, my instinct is to recommend wrestling.
7. Boxing or jiu jitsu. Which ever you prefer.
8. In order: Boxing - because going to the ground is NOT the best option, and boxing is easy to learn and apply in a street fight. Jiu Jitsu - because if you do go to the ground, this is your best means of getting out of it or finishing it. Wrestling - a great place to begin if you're still in school, wonderful for all kinds of attributes. Not as effective as jiu jitsu for self-defense though. Tae kwon do - Great for sport and fitness. VERY hard to use kicks in real self-defense situations though.
9. Any of them will kick major @ss except karate.