Possible Clues:

• Brawl (colloq.)
• An informal fight, with vertical blows?
• Violent reaction when drink's increased in price?
• An informal fist-fight or brawl - strike vertically?
• An informal brawl, a fight with fists
• Add some oomph to
• Brawl bringing hook-nosed buffoon before magistrate
• Brawl (informal)
• Add zest to
• Fight with young boxer, perhaps, outside a foreign church