"This guy had really guts to start the fight though."
I'm not sure he actually started the fight, I think he finished it.
He acted in a way that I think we all hope we would be capable of in a real life and death situation. This wasn't a practice session in a class room or in a training environment. He exhibited an act of courageous and aggressive action in a life and death situation.
I think he has some real guts.