I get pretty tired while working out, but the most exhausted I’ve ever been in my life was from fighting. That’s a whole different kind of spent there.

One fight I got into, I got knocked down (not from a head hit) and I was so damn wiped out that I could not even lift my arm up off the ground. Luckily I’d knocked the other guy down at the same time so I had a little time to recover.

The only film I’ve seen portray this aspect of fighting relatively realistically is Atomic Blonde (I linked to the correct time in the video there). Just like Charlize and her attacker in that bit, all I could do was roll around on the floor uselessly for 10-15 seconds. No film is realistic as to fighting, but that one felt far more real than most.