I don't think I have been. I've been hit in the face with baseballs (one intentionally thrown at my face when I wasn't looking, breaking my nose). Slapped. Elbows and knees to the face incidentally in BJJ.

The closest violence-as-a-reality-check I've experienced is being pushed down a staircase. My friend had a party in his trailer. I was drunk and talking shit to some hothead. He pushed me down the five feet of stairs at the entrance of the trailer.

I learned that some people view words as an assault and it's best to let such people live in their lies.