I've also practiced martial arts for over 20 years. I know that while I can hold my own in a self-defense scenario, arranged fights are another story entirely. Even untrained people get in lucky shots, you make mistakes, you have a bad day... and there is no guarantee that your opponent will not have their own 20 years of training.
Or your opponent could be a psychotic jerk, and will just gouge your eyes out.
Fights with strangers is just a bad idea.
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/...
Deaths per year (trending down is nice!):
Weapons 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Personal weapons 1 869 875 817 769 728
Other or not stated 1,005 999 904 872 853
Anyway, broken jaws and teeth are really expensive to fix. Like a bottomless depth of debt could result due to liability and personal injury. Even if you don't go to jail, it could be a life changing event in a bad way.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_punch
http://www.fightingarts.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showfl...
You'll probably want a degree of comraderie in a fight, otherwise you might be gambling with your larynx or maybe some other valuable vital organ.
Killing a man with your fists isn't that hard, much training in various full contact martial arts actually goes into practicing how not to kill your opponent during a fight.