User blog comment:ElizaCreststeel/Fisticuffs - A Skill Concept/@comment-1140008-20121029155846

Some Trivia - Hand to hand duels were actually in the game's beta. In some early trailers, you could see two pirates on the deck of a ship taking jabs a t each other while other pirates circled around them cheering.

You can actually still see this animation in the Phase Files.