The drunken fist on chin trick is less popular or less reported. Don't know if Ice king-hits rates are up by a percentage in interest.
"Coward punch" may be deterring the midnight swingers.
But another skull from a carpark was carefully treated by medicos who Xrayed the national health of His nearly Majesty Richard III. A mob of crazed yobbos on pommy cider and gin caused a riot against the middle east of England , with numerous lesions, cortical fractures, premature withdrawals and major depression. Many blamed Henry VII the new south Welshman.
His lion and unicorn were seized by authorities and placed in the Canberra High Court which is way above single-punch sentencing.
But if Henry didn't throw his weight into the punch-up where would be all be now , eh ?

"But if Henry didn't throw his weight into the punch-up where would be all be now , eh ?"

Huh?

This is Earth Control calling spaceman nicknamenick, come in, 'nnn'.

Damn, he's in orbit out there in the shadow of some ice.

("..we all be now.." no edit key for typo.)
So Richard III stays on the job and no Scottish relative to join the UK. No Charles I to kick-start the parliament , no independence from
the Vatican and maybe a French-style revolution or two to derail the British empire. So no royal wars against France and no need to settle Oz to block them. Maybe avoid lunacy from the Hanoverian kings and keep better links with USA.
Royal violence made this country what it is today and it was stolen to teach convicts not to steal and locks them up if they hit like kings.

Hi nnn,

I think I get it: are you suggesting a sort of historical counter-factual - what might have happened if King Richard III hadn't been king-hit in the car-park at Leicester in 2012 ?

That the Tudors wouldn't have come to power ? And then the Stuarts ? And then the Hanoverians ? Quite likely.

That, if Richard III hadn't been king-hit, the US (about to be 'discovered'), would not have revolted against the UK, the French Revolution wouldn't have happened, there wouldn't have been any enmity between the British and French crowns (implausible), and Australia didn't have to be settled.

So, ultimately, the reason for the settlement of Australia was King Richard getting sucker-punched in Leicester ?

You could be right. But what about the Romans ?

Cheers,

Joe

Without Charles I there's no parliament victory so probably there's a revolution at some stage. Therefore no royals in France or little England so no royal wars. ( If all the English revolutionaries used the 1-punch it could become a sport).
Romans had the idea.

Pugilatus

The rules of this ancient discipline were simple: with only use of the hands fighters could strike any part of the body - back and genitals included.
There were no weight categories or time limits. The winner either knocked out his rival or forced him to give up

Hi Nnn,

I think the royal families of France and Britain were quite separate - for one thing, France being Catholic and Britain being nominally Protestant. Britain could have become a collection of tribes for all France cared: it wouldn't have had any reason to follow suit.

The Romans also had armies. I don't think they resolved many conflicts with single punches. Or single champions in combat either. Do you mean the Trojans and Myceneans ? Or Aboriginal groups ?

Hypotheticals can be fascinating: what if Nefertiti had lived to be eighty ? What if America had been three thousand kilometres further west ? What if Jesus or Mohamed actually had existed ? What if chewing gum had been invented two hundred years earlier ?

Wow, there's an exciting idea for an innovative board-game that Turnbull may fund ?

Cheers,

Joe

LOUDMOUTH
HULLO !
Britain went Protestant because Henry said so. No Henry , no prods.
So you get a Catholic republic little England. Romans had kings who did the street-punch winners-are-grinners:

"When word of this brazen deed reached king Servius, he hurried to the curia to confront Tarquin, who leveled the same accusations , and then in his youth and vigor carried the king outside and flung him down the steps of the senate-house and into the street. "
King Tarquin lived happily ever after and knew the punch-line.

nicknamenick,
"His lion and unicorn were seized by authorities and placed in the Canberra High Court which is way above single-punch sentencing."
Very funny, but I think there are a coupe of details you've missed:

1) AIUI the unicorn is of Scottish origin.
2) Do Federal courts still use the lion and unicorn? I thought they used the kangaroo and emu now.

In a single hit :
1) Jane Beaufort of Lancaster gifted the heraldic yale to James I when they married in 1424 and it had swivelling horns where the rear horn replaced the front horn when lost in battle.
2) The lion and unicorn are designed in stain glass in a rear window of the High Court to represent the reception of British law.
Both are googly and 1 hit by a billy-goat battering-ram is not funny.