I feel like suggesting a technical correction. The guy likely has been in a scrap. Not necessarily as an actual fighter, though, so much as the guy paying a bunch of people to stand in front of him and commit violence so he'll get what he wants. He was raised, worked with, and learned from organized crime figures, after all, which likely has much to do with his overarching love for thuggery across the board.
ETA: One of those old Trump history stories I read during his first term was of him doing pretty much exactly as I just described, either way. I don't recall enough to easily find link to the article that the story was in, though.