I'm not gonna stand up for him.
This writer sure does fill in alot of blanks in his version of events. All I saw was a guy trying to press his way in to the bar, provoking a female patron who got there first, becoming agitated and grabbing her arm, at which time she tries to hit him with a girlie punch, after which he clocks her with a manly right cross and promptly flees the scene.
a manly right cross
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A manly right cross? And she was still standing?