Wrestling without impulse control.
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That depends entirely on what state you're in.
Ordinary Force is never a justification for Lethal Force. In any state.
The issue is that you have to articulate why a punch is lethal force (IE: Brock Lesnar punching a 108 year old woman)
What you call ordinary force is potentially lethal force. People have been knocked down by lucky hits and cracked their skulls on the pavement. Luckily, most of us don't have to defend ourselves by UK rules like you seem to believe.
No, what I call ordinary force is ordinary force. IF YOU CAN ARTICULATE THAT IT IS REASONABLE TO ASSERT THAT THE FORCE BEING USED AGAINST YOU CAN CAUSE YOU GREVIOUS BODILY HARM then it's no longer ordinary force.
Most single punches are considered ordinary force. Most, and this is all context dependent.
This is American law. Moreover, it's Western law.
This is not a debate, nor an argument here.
YELLING IN ALL CAPS MAKES MY POINT CORRECT
Dude, unless you're being assaulted by a spindly old fogie in a wheelchair or a child, any physical assault can be reasonably believed to have the potential for grievous bodily harm. People have died from single punches, without any roided out freaks involved.