I have never been in a real fight or had any strike me in any context where I shouldn’t be getting punched. I train Muay Thai and that training consists of almost purely controlled sparring. I took a nice hook to the face last week. But in the context of your questions those don’t really count.

Now one instance does come a bit closer to your question but it was still in a voluntary setting. When we were kids (15-17) we decided it would be fun to buy nine ounce gloves From our local sports store and have at in on each. The fad only lasted a couple weeks. Towards the end, someone who was outside of our main friend group was hanging out with us, and I shouldn’t have, but agreed to box him. I was 15, pre-pubescent, and 115 ish. He was 17, post pubescent, and around 150. I was a squirrelly boy though and I like a good competitive challenge.

We boxed. I held my own for a bit, drew blood on my opponent in a weird way by clipping his lip with the covered but non-padded part of my glove. He knew that was what happened too and wasn’t happy. We continued to box. I remember he would throw a punch and keep his hand there a couple inches from my face and throw a couple mini-strikes which was hard for me to deal with. What I wish I could remember how it happened or what he threw was the punch that nearly knocked me out. The only thing I could express pride in outwardly to my friends was “well he didn’t knock me out!” But man was it close. I remember stumbling all around in a 10 foot radius. I couldn’t see or make out any detail of my surroundings. Everything was whiter than it should be and the white garage doors we were near were very white relative to their normal dusty off-white color. I’m lucky it wasnt a real fight, controlled or not, because any follow up from my opponent would have crushed me. This guy was a dick for other reasons, but he let me stumble around like a newborn deer while I recovered. We collectively decided to end the match there, declare him the Victor, smoke some pot, and have some beers in the alley we all punched each other in.