I don’t recall Kirk and the Gorn captain actually fist fighting, and that’s my personal favorite episode.
If you’re going to compare Arena to a sleazy catfight that looks straight out of a direct-to-video shitfest, I’m not really sure what to say.
I do. You’re wrong. That’s what I say.
Judo chop, yes. Fists? No. Fist fights usually involve a punch to the face?
Semantics. It’s a dinosaur. It’s the slowest dinosaur ever, and it’s using its hands, not its teeth. It does use it’s teeth eventually, but long after establishing it’s absolutely, unbelievably, unrealistically horrible at unarmed melee combat.