Possible Clues:

• Grapples, in the sticks
• Tangles with, in the country
• Fights without punchin'
• Fights with, in the hills
• Grapples, slangily
• Grapples, in dialect
• Goes at it, so to speak
• Scraps in the sticks
• Fights in the sticks
• Scraps in the backwoods