First, am going to let the little drill sergeant in the back of my head speak. He says, "Fuuck learning to fight. Learn how to kill. That way when you meet some dumb bastard who knows how to fight you send his soul hell." And any one who can tell me where I am paraphrasing from gets a pat on the head.
That out of way. Damn good job losing the weight. Have a good friend who has been working to lose weight and it is not easy, He had dropped about 30 pounds before he got hit by a car. He's doing well before I get asked.
Anyway, my personal opinion when it comes to learning to fight and martial arts, having been doing it for about twenty years now, though only on and off for the past five due to work and school, is take all the styles you can and learn everything you can. Knife work, hand to hand, and everything else. Second, find someplace that wants to teach and isn't focused on competition since in my experience you end learning a lot of ways to score points and not so much how to handle a real fight. I have gotten the "Point for me!" response from a few of those guys over the years, usually right before I put them on the ground because they get into the habit of as soon as they connect they lower their guard, or they throw some funky ass move to reach out throwing balance to hell to actually make the connection. Some MMA joints aren't too bad, though I seem to always find the places that either focus solely on boxing, which I find pretty useless in a bare knuckle fight, or wrestling, which I in my core cant abide, since my training from a most formal age always preached stay on your feet especially against multiple attackers.
Anyway, find something you like and learn all you can.
"I don't collect guns anymore, I stockpile weapons for ****ing war." Chuck P.
"Some days you eat the bacon, and other days the bacon eats you." SeriousStudent
"Don't complain when after killing scores of women and children in a mall, a group of well armed men who train to shoot people like you in the face show up to say hello." WillBrink
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