fight after that. >> all right. i feel like it was the wrong decision, but i have the right to appeal their decision which i'm going to do. but i feared for my safety. i did everything i felt like i had to do to immobilize my attacker. he swung on me. what was i supposed to do? stand there and take the short end of the stick? no. >> we don't really fault him so much as defending himself and hitting back. but because he continued, and he punched him about five or six times as well. >> we follow south carolina law. and south carolina law states if you don't try to separate yourself, you're a participant. so he did try to participate himsel he was defending himself, but the fact that he did not try to separate himself from it, he is considered a participant. >> one punch wouldn't have done it? >> it don't work like that. if we're going to fight, we're going to fight. you come looking for it, you ask for it, you got what you asked for. >> kelly will now spend the next