With magic or without, he'd won every brawl he'd ever been in, and he definitely wasn't afraid to fight a girl.
It is true, however, that he was stabbed, like Marlowe, in a midnight brawl at a tavern.
A full scale drunken brawl was in progress, no doubt.
He was trained, partly at Paris, for the profession of architect, but his opportune assistance to two German nobles in a tavern brawl obtained for him a nomination to the military school of Munich.
Brawl remains one of the most popular fighting games on the Wii today.