It’s always a pleasure to watch a loud-mouthed bully quickly turn into a quivering coward when their intended victim fights back, and this is a perfect example of that phenomenon in action.

The hot-headed youth in this instance is wearing a black t-shirt with white writing on the front, and is in the process of trying to intimidate his victim in the black shirt and jeans as the video begins.

What’s immediately obvious here is that the victim doesn’t want to fight and is doing a commendable job of trying to stay calm and not escalate the situation.

As the bully shouts at him in the middle of the road his body language remains passive and he just tries to laugh it off and walk away.

Unfortunately the instigator isn’t willing to let the matter drop and continues to provoke him.

The victim keeps him at bay with an outstretched arm and then turns to walk away again, but the increasingly irate bully escalates the already volatile situation by punching him in the arm.

For a moment the victim continues to walk away, but with the troublemaker still coming after him, and already having lashed out, he’d have put himself at risk of being hurt if he’d continued trying to ignore him.

A fight is now all-but inevitable, and so the victim decides to return fire.

He springs forward, shoving his attacker in the chest and then launches a right hand at his head. The bully seemed caught off-guard by that and hits reverse gear.

Continuing to press forward aggressively, the victim then launches a body kick and follows up with two more in quick succession.

The bully’s desire to fight instantly crumbles under this unexpected attack and he suddenly just turns around and flees, scurrying away in fear as other bystanders start howling with laughter at this priceless act of cowardice.

The victim chases after him for a moment, but from the panicked look on his face the instigator’s bullying days are over and he just keeps running down the street as if his life depended on it.