Possible Clues:

• Intense fighting at close range
• Fierce conflict
• Vigorous argument in a nasty cricket match?
• Threw tight ends into pack to create major face-off
• Pleb chatted freely about it in fierce set-to
• Furious combat
• Culloden (1746), for example
• Tossed pack around a couple of times in planned conflict
• Promoted British beer, getting blocked by non-drinker's violent confrontation
• Intense fighting at close range (2 words)