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Fights like these were actually only supposed to take place between strangers. The wikipedia article seems to only exist in german, so here’s a rough translation, sorry if it doesn’t read well, I’m not very good at translations. Also, as you can see in the pictures, the man in the pit had some kind of club as a weapon, at least according to Talhoffer

Gerichtskämpfe waren nur zwischen Fremden erlaubt. Durch einen entsprechenden Schwur von sieben Männern aus der männlichen oder weiblichen Verwandtschaftslinie der Kläger/Beklagten sollten Kämpfe zwischen Personen bis zum fünften Verwandtschaftsgrad ausgeschlossen werden (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerichtskampf_zwischen_Mann_und_Frau_(Hans_Talhoffer)#%3A%7E%3Atext=Gerichtsk%C3%A4mpfe+waren+nur+zwischen+Fremden+erlaubt)

Legal Court fights were only allowed between strangers. Through an oath of seven men from the male or female line of relatives of the accuser/accused, fights between persons up to the fifth degree of relationship were supposed to be prevented

Pocket sand!

Are you familiar with the teachings of Michael Hundt? He was a 17th century fencing master and some of his techniques included:

• if your opponent is better than you, just throw your sword at him and run away
• if someone wants to duell you, tell him you will only duell one of “them”, when he turns around to see who the supposed second person is you are talking about, stab him from behind
• always carry a handgun with you and if your opponent is better than you, shoot him and:
• pocket sand

Honestly, I think Hundt was just a medieval troll and while he does have some genuine techniques, the dirty fighting ones are better known